I think this is something special about Italy; waking up, taking the coffee in the morning and talking only about football.
I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio.
I can talk 10 hours about football. From the moment I leave home, I talk about football.
When I talk about football from a studio standpoint, I try to cut through the minutia and get to the point.
I've had a great time making the transition from playing to talking about the game, and there is no better place to talk football than NFL Network.
I still speak with David Silva. We have a personal relationship, and we talk about personal things, but we've not got into football that much.
It doesn't hurt to hear talk about the Spain national team.
I have never been at a club where the players talked so much about a previous manager as they did about Jose Mourinho at Inter Milan.
I'd always wanted to do something about football, so I did the podcast.
I'm not one of those football people who thinks and talks nothing but football.
I grew up in pubs so my whole thing is 'the game happened,' people would go into the pub afterwards and discuss 'it should have been a penalty, he should have scored that.'
