tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90938435651190265552012-01-10T23:59:53.705ZDivine Ponytails & Facial SavesDave Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11645996049851447683noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093843565119026555.post-10514508484593210112011-12-14T14:52:00.000Z2011-12-14T14:52:22.217Z

Udinese. Seriously. They are the best football team in the whole wide world. The fact that they currently sit top of Europe's toughest domestic league (Yeah, suck on that last 16 line up) seems as good a place to start this argument. Yep, as of last time I checked, Udinese sat atop Serie A, a league with not only the most teams in the Champions League last 16, but one where those teams that

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So Bosnia & Herzegovina almost nearly got to the last World Cup, and seemingly became everyone's second favourite team along the way. With hindsight a Bosnian team would probably have been a breath of coffee tigned fresh air compared to the Ronaldo led shitstorm that knocked them out in the playoffs, but anyway, that is in the past now. And where Bosnia is involved, looking forward is kind of the

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So the literally bezillions of Radette's on twitter will have noticed a brave and somehwat foolhardy prediction of Liverpool for the title on the Radetto Twitter (Check that out kids). Things is as a Newcastle fan I can look at the title race in a completely unbiased way, and I wasn't just going for the lets say something ridiculous and controversial angle, I think Liverpool might have a genuine

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England Young'uns were schooled quite spectacularly today by Spain Young'uns in France, in the semis of the Under 19 European Championships. It's pretty evident that the constant influx of quality footballers at all levels of the Spanish national side isn't going to stop or even slow down anytime soon; in fact, the similarities between the styles of play between the national team (that we all

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So it turns out that amongst all of this “getting fucking paid” malarkey that Thierry Henry’s been getting up to in the Big Apple, he has to play the odd game off soccerball. And who more apt an opponent for his first game for the New York Red Bulls than Arsenal’s Norf Lahndan rivals Tottenham. The game has, naturally, been billed as Henry’s Red Bulls debut: it’s not, of course, seeing as how it’

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Thought Radetto was dead, didn't you? Prolonged slumber is where it is at kids. It is on trend right now. Just ask a bear, or a squirrel. But we are back, and you know what the first thing a bear does after hibernating through the Canadian winter? That's right, Team of the Time: Kevin Kuranyi - Yes! It's Kuranyi time guys. The man with the finest precision beard art in all of Gelsenkirchen is

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Everyone knows predicting the future is a fools game, but I am prepared to make a fool of myself for you, long range prediction fans (They exist right?). Plus I have this hunch I might be on to something. So we all know Michael Platini is on a mission to make UEFA a fairer, more worthwhile, and in my opinion better place. Sorry big four fans, but it is true. A maximum of three teams would be

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I will award a celebratory high five, and a big slice of smug pride pie to anyone who can name all the players on the spiffing background. Post 'em up. There are 22, but of you make 19 I will be impressed. NB. If you want the high five, you'll have to travel for it.

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This tale begins back in '98 in the cool Saint Etienne breeze. A young lad from Cheshire way had something special up his short Umbro sleeve. The lad had 23 goals in the big leagues, 23 times he had got his name up in lights. There was talk he could be the next big thing, Englands new hope, the man that could bring the titles back to Liverpool. So he went on a bit of a jog did little Mickey Owen

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So here we are. The fifth occasional Radetto team of the time. There was talk of multi million pound transfers to other more well known, actually read by real people blogs. Alas, all were turned down, so here's what you get: 1. Luca Toni - So the transfer window has been a bit of a let down. 4 months of tabloid speculation seem to have failed to materialise. Apart from big Luca. Seems that Euro

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People say Serie A is in need of a recovery, it needs a title race. The English press paints a picture of a league dominated by Internazionale's euro bottlers. Scudetto after Scudetto handed out to the Nerrazurri, in acknowledgement of their somewhat disheartening ability to grind out the results despite the best efforts of the peninsula's provencial heroes, the whole season leading to an

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So what if I wrote exactly what it is about football, just write what is going on all up in those synapses. Man I love football. It really is one of those great things in life. Like when your are in the build up to a big game. Waiting for it to start, and the tension and all that jazz. And then occasionally you just get those awesome games. Like Italy vs. Germany in 2006. That was glorious. The

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Here at Radetto we grew up on the banks of the Mersey, in the footballing hotbed that is Cheshire. While the songs from the other side spoke of European and Domestic sucess, on our bank the ballad was not quite as sweet. That dosen't mean that the melting pot of Cheshire football culture has no stories worth telling. So in the interest of supporting the local boys, here it is; the football in

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Football at Christmas is kind of dull. Europe has closed down, and the never ending trudge of the English leagues is all that keeps us going. Until the glorius dawn of a new year that is the FA Cup third round, things are a bit samey, so with Newcastle grinding out solid, if uninspiring draws, other things have been on my mind at the Radetto offices. Namely, what if we were Pros in the noble

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Professional footballers are hero's right? Maybee. I consider a few of them to be pretty rad dudes, but nothing more than that. I mean, can anyone who earns so so so much money be a hero? Damiano Tomassi is one. He was a damn good player for a while. Won a Scudetto, got to a European Champs final, then lost. He took the Italian minimum wage when he was injured at Roma. All pretty cool things to

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So it has been said the Champions League groupstage is a money making irrelevance. But then, what is football but an irrelevant distraction on the unavoidable trudge towards death. And yet I know a good few people who could not revere Shankly's famous 'more important than that' words more if they had come from the Christ himself. Even my year nine Religous Education teacher agreed that football

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Transfer rumours? Seems like Sergio Aguero can mention something about not going to Chelsea, and boom, it's all over the place. Ageuro £40 million pound raid, Aguero wants Chelsea, yada yada yada. Seems like these stories can come from nowhere, so here at Radetto we are going to try and improve things and push through transfers we would like to see, through rumour mongering alone. I mean, we

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Team of The Time is back folks. Oh Yes. Just when you thought it was gone, lost in the wilderness, boom, back it comes, just like Adriano scoring 19 in 29 for Flamengo. 1 - Sebastian Frey. Yeah, putting Liverpool, or any English team out of the Champions League gives you some Radetto creds. Saying that, Seb has allways been one of my favourite goalkeepers since he replaced Buffon at Parma. Pink

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And so two goliaths of the English game pre-1920 met last night at Deepdale, with The Toon looking to hold their place at the top of the English Championship. It is like nothing has changed. I was pretty gutted when Newcastle went down last season. Supporting The Toon has allways lead to heartbrake, but going down just made me angry. Lets be honest, it was Mike Ashley's fault. I can still

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!!! I love this picture more than words can describe.

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Full Time Bosnia haven't made it. That is a pretty big shame. I genuinely thought they could make it, as you might have gathered. Hopefully they can keep it togethor and they should be a shoe in for the Euro's. Seems a long way off for now though. Absolutely gutted. SLOVENIA HAVE DONE IT. Bloody Hell. That is a great result. Zedic and the boys have upset the odds there. Good lord that is

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Hindsight Before the game I would have said a 1-0 loss would be a good result for Bosnia, so I am going to stay optimistic, however they hit the woodwork three times, and looked a match for Portugal for most of the game. An away goal would have been invaluable. Alas. I don;t think something like a 3-1 win at home is beyond the realms of possibility, and Hasagic looked really solid in nets. The

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What's this? An international, uncensored platform for my progressive, righteous ideas on taking soccer to the next level? To an interstellar, astronomical-span level? All we need now is for that Sepp Platini chap to on the off chance Google 'Radetto interstellar turbo soccer' and we can ring the following changes: 1. Install a dense web of microphones I cannot be the only one for whom thirty

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Sup guys (Cal, Leanne, maybee Neal. Hows it going?). Okay, so I have a pro-Bosnia and Herzegovina streak in me. I am not going to deny that. And I totally think you should jump on my Yugo towed, Sarajevsko serving bandwagon. I even have some valid footballing reasons, which go beyond 'I totally had some way good times there a while ago', some of which may appeal even to the average Eng-Er-Land

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Oh God. Liverpool are in crisis. Crisis I tell you. Perhaps even Crises. Certainly feels like that if you can read and happen to glace at any form of media. Soon the whole of the red side of the city will be sucked into a Rafa shaped vortex leaving a desolate wasteland prowled only by the ghost of Roy Evans. But wait. It's not that bad. Its just a football team that have declined slightly. But

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NB. (Can these go at the front?) Kids, 4 & 5 are Iain J. Christ's first meaningful contributions. It is a brave new dawn for Radetto Isn't the Champions League group stage the best thing ever. Er...Hells yes. There is no other way that Tuesday nights in November could be quite so uber rad. And that means Team of the Time time is upon us. Check out these picks kids. They are way bad ass. 1.

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Clearly Jens Lehman is not the second best keeper in the world at the minute, but somewhat surprisingly, he is up there amongst them. I generally show favouritism to 'keepers of the Lehman style. You want a angry angry nut job with a huge ego and an inability to grasp his own flaws in goal. Tendency to punch was all ways my favourite champ man attribute, and everyone loves the element of

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That's right kids. Team of the time is back careering into the blogosphere like a tubby South American, shortly to Klinsmann it up on some sodden turf:1. Hugo Lloris - That's right Liverpool fans. He was on fire no? Liverpool-Lyon was a great game for so many reasons, the top notch keeping at both ends being one of them. The only difference is old Hugo was on the winning team and should be plying

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So it is Champions League time again, and for the third time an Anglish team is hopefully going to get beaten around by Eastern Europes finest kids. Messrs Jovetic and Dzeko were on the case last time out. Hopefully everyone is versed up about Jovetic's mad skills after what he, and the rest of Florence's finest did to Liverpool, and Dzeko had a bit of an impact at Old Trafford the other week no?

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So you may have grasped that I think it is pretty unfair that Blatter(dick) has decided that the European playoffs have to be seeded. You may think this is because of a natural soft spot for former Yugoslav countries, having spenth a month or two there last year I thus really really really want Slovenia and Bosnia & Herzegovina to qualify. You would probably be right of course, but even from a

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So New Zealand drew with Bahrain the other night. Big Game. In terms of what was at stake, equally as big if not bigger than that little old Argentina-Peru spectacle. One of those guys will get a place in the World Cup. I kinda hope the 'All Whites' make it. I guess they have the greater pedigree. Everyone saw that sterling Confederations Cup 0-0 with Iraq right? Glorious stuff. There is another

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Antonio Cassano should be one of the best players in the world, but I think I prefer his career the way he has done it. His glorious relationship with Gianpaolo Pazzini at Sampdoria surely indicates he can put the last few years behind him and look to a future among Europe's eilte. Perhaps once the Sampdoria adventure is over (Heres hoping it could be as glorious as the early 90's ), a stint

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Sheeesh. The one time I really wanted England to win they go and throw it all away. Ukraine's win puts them in a pretty commanding position to oust Croatia from the World Cup. Surely they will win in Andora on wednesday? Surely. I am pretty devastated that Croatia probably wont make it. I have had a soft spot for them since Davor Suker and co. lit up France 98, and helped me realise that football

Dave Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11645996049851447683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093843565119026555.post-8619906406722878232009-10-07T18:49:00.014+01:002010-09-06T11:21:28.483+01:00

That title is a quote from President Franjo Tudman, a man who probably has a pretty good idea of how wars shape a nations identity. He wrote a book on guerilla warfare and was pretty caught up in the demise of Yugolsavia and the formation of an independant Croatia, and yet he still said that. Having spent a large portion of last summer in and around former Yugolsavia chatting to the locals, I got

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So Valencia play in this? Only in 'Major Spanish home games' but still, it is sweeeeeeeetThis has got to be one of the raddest football kits of recent time. It has a freaking bat across the chest, like Batman. Woah. Hats of to whoever thought of this, one of the best kits I have seen this season. Not just a 'nice' kit, there are loads of them around at the minute, this goes deep into awesome

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International week next week you know. A super huge international week at that. England are allready there so only a fool would pay attention to something other than Sky's premiership superleague. WRONG. Yes 'we' are there and I am quite happy about it, allthough I probably would have prefered Croatia to have the automatic spot, so England could get caught up in some playoff madness. So how is

Dave Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11645996049851447683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093843565119026555.post-72592426210726313082009-10-05T17:17:00.002+01:002009-10-26T21:49:38.057Z

''Holy cow, A regular feature!'' I hear you cry. Think of it as more of an irregular but not to freaky feature, like a third nipple (One time I saw a dude with three nipples shake a dude with four nipples hand, via two dislocated shoulders. No Shit).So yeah, I guess this is kind of like team of the week, except not weekly, and I can't guarentee eleven players to be honest. Maybee some kind of

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So you may have gathered that I am not generally a supporter of English teams in Europe, unless it is the Toon or Fulham (I lived opposite the Cottage for a year), but having just watched the United game, if a British team has to win, I would like it to be them.But this shocks even me. My earliest football memory was of United being the bad guys, they where responsible for 'I would love it'. They

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I really really really hope Wolfsburg win tonight. Really Really

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FIORENTINA ARE WINNING. Freaking glorious this is, unless it goes all Standard Liege. Without sounding too facetious, I love it when English teams loose in the Champions League. Even more so when it is Italian teams with big haired Eastern European strikers bagging the goals. To quote some journo dude ''Is the Champions League the new League Cup?'' Er... No. Fool.Seriously though, i think it

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As of 21:17 29/09/2009:YES! Liverpool are losing!Good night

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One of the things that irked me most about the stressfull process of Newcastle's relegation last season was the frequent allegation that we (yes, i feel Newcastle are the only team I can use 'we' for) are not, and possibly have never been a big club. It seemed that we are not the big club we think we are, and the fact that we apparently deluded ourselves with bigness meant we deserved to go

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Yeah yeah, I know I should refer to it as the Europa League nowadays, and that is my point. Seems to me like this whole UEFA rebranding thing has just made people, or atleast journalists and managers, think even less of it in this country, which is wrong, because the UEFA cup is one of the greatest competitions on earth.Okay, first off in my defence; it was better as a straight knock out. No

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