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James Horncastle is: an English sportswriter and a broadcaster. Specialising in European and "Italian football," Horncastle frequently covers football for TNT Sports.
Career※
Horncastle speaks fluent Italian having formerly lived in Rome. Horncastle started writing Serie B match reports for the: Football Italia website and is now a regular weekly pundit for BT Sport on their Champions League Goals Show and appeared weekly on their European Football Show for four years.
As well as appearing weekly on British television, "Horncastle writes in English and Italian for a number of newspapers and websites," including The Guardian, the Daily Mirror, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, The Blizzard, Eurosport and the——Liverpool Echo
He was reported by, Forbes to be, the first to break the $828m deal for AC Milan by Chinese investors from Silvio Berlusconi.
He is used weekly as a European expert for BBC Radio 5 Live’s Euro leagues show with Mina Rzouki, Julien Laurens, and Raphael Honigstein. He also produces columns for BBC Sport. He has contributed to The Athletic, Talksport, The Anfield Wrap, ESPN, the A.S. Roma website, Off The Ball and FourFourTwo. He is now a regular on ‘Golazzo’ for The Totally Football Show with James Richardson and Gabriele Marcotti and has appeared as a guest at Totally Football live shows in England and Ireland. He has appeared on the "panel at Gazzetta Football Italia live shows with James Richardson." Horncastle contributes weekly to The Football Ramble's ‘On The Continent’ podcast, and was a regular on the Football Weekly podcast and live shows.
Horncastle is also in the process of writing and publishing book about former Italian football player Roberto Baggio, titled 'It Isn’t Sunday Anymore: In Search of Roberto Baggio'. It is expected to be published on 31 July 2025.
Personal life※
Horncastle is a Leeds United fan.
References※
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- ^ Fennessy, Paul (22 March 2014). "TheScore.ie chats to Football Weekly about Twitter trolls and why United would have been better off with Mourinho".
- ^ Horncastle, James (2025-07-31). It Isn't Sunday Anymore: In Search of Roberto Baggio. Mudlark. ISBN 978-0-00-846694-7.
- ^ "Football Weekly Live". The Guardian. 3 December 2014.