Spritz & Scrums - Italian Rugby Podcast
Aug 18, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 12 segments
We're back! After the longest break in Spritz and Scrums history, the trio reunites. It's the 2025-2026 Italian rugby season review. We cover everything: the Azzurri's historic first-ever win over…
And shame to us, we did this last season, and we've done it again this season, we basically just fell off a cliff.
We didn't even announce [laughs] that we were-
No
... gonna record a final episode.
It's because we were gonna do a final episode, and then all of a sudden it all went really shit, and not on our personal lives, for Italian rugby temporarily, and we just couldn't bring ourselves to put on a podcast and just spout negative bollocks, but now we're back.
We're back, and we're gonna do a summary before the next season.
This is a summary of the season which has just gone, the season, previous season, before the future season.
Now we're between seasons, so we're gonna do a season summary.
Doesn't he sound like, oh, God, what's his name? Not-
David Mitchell
...
David Mitchell.
The football, the football never stops.
Watch the football-
Well-
... and then you'll watch the football-
He does
... and the football will continue.
It is a bit like that-
Very much so
... 'cause when, when the season finished the previous season, I'd really had enough of club rugby.
[laughs]
It was really, really...
I was so...
When that final whistle went, I was like, "Turn off the TV." Like, "Thank God that's over.
And shame to us, we did this last season, and we've done it again this season, we basically just fell off a cliff.
We didn't even announce [laughs] that we were-
No
... gonna record a final episode.
It's because we were gonna do a final episode, and then all of a sudden it all went really shit, and not on our personal lives, for Italian rugby temporarily, and we just couldn't bring ourselves to put on a podcast and just spout negative bollocks, but now we're back.
We're back, and we're gonna do a summary before the next season.
This is a summary of the season which has just gone, the season, previous season, before the future season.
Now we're between seasons, so we're gonna do a season summary.
Doesn't he sound like, oh, God, what's his name? Not-
David Mitchell
...
David Mitchell.
The football, the football never stops.
Watch the football-
Well-
... and then you'll watch the football-
He does
... and the football will continue.
It is a bit like that-
Very much so
... 'cause when, when the season finished the previous season, I'd really had enough of club rugby.
[laughs]
It was really, really...
I was so...
When that final whistle went, I was like, "Turn off the TV." Like, "Thank God that's over.
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