Archive | June, 2007
Yes, it was the match of the season so far
TPS – TamU 1 – 3 FC Lahti – FC Viikingit 0 – 2 TamU 11 26 TPS 11 20 FC Haka 10 20 FC Honka 10 16 MyPa 11 16 HJK 11 15 FC Lahti 10 14 FF Jaro 10 12 FC KooTeePee 10 11 FC Viikingit 10 11 VPS 11 10 FC Inter [...]
European draws
29. June 2007
Tampere United have drawn Murata from San Marino in the first qualifying round of the Champions League. A mighty relief for them giving them near-certain progression to the second qualifying round where they will face Levski Sofia. Each round is worth 150,000euro, so it’s not like the club wanted to draw Dinamo Zagreb for the [...]
Match of the season so far
29. June 2007
TamU 10 23 TPS 10 20 FC Haka 10 20 FC Honka 10 16 MyPa 11 16 HJK 11 15 FC Lahti 9 14 FF Jaro 10 12 FC KooTeePee 10 11 VPS 11 10 FC Inter 10 9 AC Oulu 11 9 FC Viikingit 9 8 IFK Mariehamn 10 8 Yesterday’s results: FC Inter [...]
Lagerboom goes Alemania
28. June 2007
Just some recent personnel happenings: Of Finnish internationals, Paulus Roiha moves from ADO Den Haag to Ujpest, Budapest, and Markus Heikkinen from the beautiful airport city of Luton to the ugly Habsburgian relic of Vienna. Pekka Lagerblom hops from FC Köln to Alemannia Aachen and Aki “an Armenian thumb up my arse” Riihilahti joins FF [...]
Suomen Cup, sixth round
22. June 2007
Full results from the sixth round can be found here. Shocks were thin on the ground, but Jippo beat Viikingit. Jippo have a 16 year old player called Lauri Dalla Valle who is causing excitement among some people here. He had options to go abroad but decided to stay in Joensuu, hitherto famous only for [...]
Summer jobs?
22. June 2007
Hyvää Juhanustää! Runningball are now recruiting scouts to cover ykkonen games. If there’s an ykkonen team near you and you fancy getting paid to watch football, contact m.birgander@runningball.info for more information (a brief personal introduction in English or Swedish is appreciated). The game is broken down to simple commands such as GOAL, CR, FK, PEN, [...]
Great film on tonight
19. June 2007
For my Finnish readers: YLE2 has an excellent documentary on tonight. It’s called Fucking Sheffield and it is on at 11:30pm. Watch it if you can. Here’s a review from noripcord.com: The team behind the award winning 1995 documentary Tales From A Hard City, namely director Kim Flitcroft and producer Alex Usbourne, have returned to [...]
Betting on Finnish football
19. June 2007
Just been perusing the gaming pages of a turf accountant. Apparently, you can bet on games in this league, which I can’t imagine is of any interest to anybody except the friends and family of those involved. I’ve talked a bit before about the discrepency in odds between the Finnish government and private bookmakers. This [...]
Jonas Emet, cursed by FiF
18. June 2007
After my big build up, the poor lad didn’t get much of a look in and was substituted. Ah well, never mind. As the current ‘jewel’ of Jaro’s academy, expectations are high but he’s only 19. No reason to get over excited just yet. Following in the footsteps of the Eremenko brothers could be a [...]
Jakobstad Rost Fri?
17. June 2007
IFK Mariehamn – TPS 0 – 3 HJK – FC Haka 2 – 1 TamU – FF Jaro 2 – 1 MyPa – FC Inter 1 – 3 AC Oulu – FC KooTeePee 1 – 2 Is it really true they’re named after stainless steel? If so, I will have a good deal more sympathy [...]
Jonas Emet is a good player
15. June 2007
Just look at the two goals he scored yesterday. I’ll be honest and say I’ve not come across him before, but according to Wikipedia he’s had trials at Southampton and Djurgården already, and he’s only 19. He’s scored 5 goals in 9 games this season, from midfield. We’ll see how he plays at Ratina on [...]
Finnish clubs in the Intertoto Cup, UEFA Cup and Champions League
13. June 2007
The draws are approaching for the european competitions, so I thought I’d better post something about them. The first Finnish club in action will be FC Honka, who face FC TVMK from Tallinn. It’s a nice little trip for the boys from Espoo, and they’ll be disappointed if they don’t progress. The home leg will [...]
Up for the Suomen Cup
12. June 2007
The draw for the 6th round of the Finnish Cup has been made, and it goes as follows: FC Haka-NIK FC Hämeenlinna-MyPa AC Oulu-GrIFK FC Honka-Atlantis FC KPV-Tampere United P-Iirot/FC Lahti-LoPa HJK-Jaro JIPPO-FC Viikingit Kultsu FC-FC Inter GBK-KuPS HIFK Soccer 1-PoPa SoVo-JyTy FC YPA-PP-70 FC Honka 2-JJK FC Kuusankoski-PK Keski-Uusimaa VPS-j-City Stars GrIFK will not [...]
Tampere United’s new board
11. June 2007
Tampere United had a reorganisation recently. Well not very recently, but not that long ago. It was felt that the board as it stood was unwieldy and unable to react quickly, so a major streamlining exercise has taken place and now the Limited Company’s board has just five members: Jari Viita (Chairman), Tim Rowe (Vice [...]
Owls, Romans and upsetting results for HJK and KooTeePee
11. June 2007
Well Finland seems to have gone owl-crazy. Ilta Sanomat suggested a new kit for the national team, and some lovely owl related merchandise. I love it, being blue and white striped with the trappings of the greatest bird in football. We’ll see if the Finnish Football Association (SPL) follow it up. I have to say [...]
More Owl-related shenanigans
8. June 2007
There’s a good owl article by William Moore in the English section of Helsingin Sanomat, in case you want to read about the eagle owl that disrupted the Belgium game.
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