the series included Don Howe, Luther Blissett, Ray Wilkins and Joe Jordan. Notable broadcasts included a 1995 Genoa v Milan match abandoned at half time. A Genoa fan had been murdered before the game, and the spread of the news sparked crowd trouble. Football Italia: Mezzanotte (Midnight) was a late-night program with coverage of the Italian Sunday night game. Broadcast weekly from 1993–94 on Tuesday nights, Mezzanotte was shown on Thursday night in 2002 and on Sundays after moving to Bravo in 2006. Channel 4 also covered some Italian international matches live, including Italy's 1998 World Cup qualifying playoffs against Russia, which finished 2–1 on aggregate. A light-hearted trailer for the matches, with the voiceover "Will the Russians rub their faces in it?" while showing an Italian fan's face being rubbed in a plate of pasta, led to questions in the Italian parliament and caused 12 complaints (not upheld) to the ITC. Richardson said, "Everywhere Channel Four was being labelled as anti-Italian. In the end we re-enacted a spoof version where Pierluigi Casiraghi shoved my face in a plate of spaghetti." For the 2000–01 Serie A season, the Sunday afternoon live games became more infrequent. The most telling sign came when Channel 4 abandoned coverage of the 2001 title decider with seven minutes remaining, the match having been disrupted by a pitch invasion by fans of Roma. Just 12 months earlier, Channel 4 had accommodated schedule changes when a rainstorm held up Juventus's unsuccessful 1999–2000 title bid. Channel 4 showed their final live Serie A match on 17 June 2001, between Roma and Parma. Live coverage was abandoned altogether in 2001–02, which was Serie A's final season on Channel 4. British Eurosport (2003–2005) After Channel 4 dropped Italian football, Serie A returned to British screens halfway through the 2002–03 season when British Eurosport bought the rights. Granada had considered bidding for the rights in April 2002, but didn't do so. Eurosport's weekly live match was the "showpiece" Sunday evening 7pm kick-off, a fixture Channel 4 had never had the rights to show live. British Eurosport held the rights until 2005, with Richardson again presenting. Bravo (2005–2006) Bravo and Setanta Sports covered Serie A under a joint agreement from 2005 to the end of the 2006–07 season. After poor viewing figures, Bravo discontinued their coverage on 23 December 2006. The 2006 Serie A scandal had tarnished the league's reputation and had