European Football Show
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| European Football Show | |
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| Genre | Sports, Football |
| Created by | BT Sport |
| Presented by | James Richardson |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
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| Production locations | BT Sport Studios, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London |
| Running time | 3 hours 45 minutes (including live match) |
| Production company | BT Sport |
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| Network | BT Sport 1 HD, BT Sport 1 |
European Football Show (also referred to on occasion as Sunday Night European Football [1]) is a football TV programme on BT Sport presented by James Richardson. The show is split into three segments. It begins with a discussion between Richardson and the show's pundits of the weekend's European football (from the German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1, and Italian Serie A) along with highlights of matches played in the featured leagues. This leads into the programme's featured live football match, which can be from either the French or Italian leagues. Following the match, more discussion takes place on the events of the match, and goings on from the world of football over the past week.
Airings
The programme is presented live every week from 6:45pm GMT on BT Sport Europe Including the live match, it runs until 10:00pm. An edited version of the programme is shown on Monday nights between the hours of 8pm and 10pm - this includes discussion and highlights of the weekend's football matches.
Features
The chat between the pundits is broken up by a number of different features related to the past week's football:
- Highlights - A round-up of the goals from one of the three featured leagues will be shown - this is repeated three times throughout the programme, once for each league, so that all goals are covered.
- Around the World in 80 seconds - featuring highlights from other football leagues around the world, including goals, trophy wins and comedy events.
- Football Maths - Stats related to events of the past week are discussed (for example record consecutive wins if a team has won a lot of matches).
- Debater Generator - A random topic which has been in the news over the past week is chosen, which the pundits then discuss.
- Top 5 Goals - The programme is concluded with a compilation of the five best goals from the past week's football.
- Viewer Questions - Viewers are encouraged to send in questions and discussion topics via Twitter using the #btefs hashtag,[2] some of which are then brought up on the show.
Pundits
The programme is presented by James Richardson, along with regular pundits covering each of the featured leagues. These are Julien Laurens (Ligue 1), Raphael Honigstein (Bundesliga) and James Horncastle (Serie A). Other pundits and football personalities sometimes join the regular punditry team, these have included: