Archive | July, 2007
JJK – KuPS 4-0
Ykkönen’s top clash, what was supposed to be a tight Lake District derby, turned out an absolute hammering. The main purpose of my visit to the home region was a stag party on Saturday – which also turned out a hammering, yet of different sort – so my ability to perceive moving objects, such as [...]
PP-70 0 KPV 1
29. July 2007
Big relegation six pointer, this one. KPV seem to have a bit of a hangover from last season’s epic cup run, and despite being neat and tidy and occasionally incisive, they find themselves down the bottom of the table. Just like RoPs they have a gaggle of African players, although in Kokkola they prefer Gambians [...]
Etiquette and practicalities in the early rounds of the Champions league
25. July 2007
TamU did the job then, and will now play Levski Sofia next Tuesday. You can see highlights of the 2-0 win here. Well done to TamU for having special offers which nudged the crowd up to 5,600-odd. Haka beat Honka 2-0, highlights of which you can see here. Now for a look at the practicalities [...]
Offside
25. July 2007
I recently became a subscriber to a rather good Swedish publication called Offside. It has in depth articles on Swedish and world football, and I don’t think it really has an equivalent in English. I didn’t actually mean to be a subscriber, I filled in the form one night when drunk, but never paid the [...]
Aldair and Finnish journalists
24. July 2007
Well, the press conference was an interesting affair. Being a typical lazy Brit, I turned up expecting that a San Marinese team playing in Finland would do the decent, European thing, and speak in English. Not so. Tim Rowe is a very efficient organiser of these things, and he had unearthed a Finnish-Italian translator, thus [...]
Continental keeper looks a bit suspect
23. July 2007
Lahti people enliven their games in many ways. Awful goalkeeping at the weekend. You’d think people might have learned after previous scandals, but the MIFK goalkeeper will surely be facing some scrutiny tomorrow. Along with the AC Oulu guy he made this a weekend of comedy errors, and a bit of a goalfest. Highlights here. [...]
This is Finnish football, someone always messes things up
20. July 2007
And this time it was Haka. They went down 3-1 in Sunny Rhyl after going ahead through Tony Lehtinen. So much for my predictions about the semi pros tiring towards the end. FiF’s Welsh correspondent succinctly assessed the game like this: ‘Rhyl thoroughly deserve this … they have been the better team by far. Lots [...]
What does the elephant think about me?
19. July 2007
There’s been an upswing in traffic recently, thanks to Ilta Sanomat’s futis blogi. They told a nice little joke which I thought I’d share with my fellow ulkomaalainen, as Finns are quite funny when taking the piss out of themselves. Excuse the poor translation. In the zoo there are many nationalities represented among the visitors, [...]
Tampere United in San Marino, live on San marinese TV
17. July 2007
I think you can watch the game via this link. I don’t speak Italian though, so don’t blame me if not. Kick off is 10pm Finnish time, 9pm CET and 8 O’Clock for the island monkeys.
They’re all going on a European tour
16. July 2007
Ah, the beauty of Finnish football. Make some snide comments about Veikkausliiga games being boring, and you get bitten right on the arse. Cracking game down at Veritas Stadium tonight, with former Aston Villa prodigy Mika Ääritalo scoring two to ensure that the unfortunately named Antonio Inutile’s 87th minute strike for KTP went unrewarded. It [...]
Northern football stars and Koovee-GrIFK
16. July 2007
Iltalehti has been running a vote [now working] on the Veikkausliiga All Star team, that is to play Iltalehti Three Lions team (chosen by the men and women of Iltalehti) on the 18th of August, and now it’s time to pick the first striker. I voted for Rafael. These are the nine who are in [...]
Ykkönen latest
16. July 2007
IFK Mariehamn – AC Oulu 0 – 0 VPS – FC Lahti 1 – 0 TamU 13 29 MyPa 13 22 FC Haka 12 21 TPS 13 20 FC Honka 11 19 HJK 13 17 FF Jaro 11 15 VPS 14 15 FC KooTeePee 11 14 FC Lahti 12 14 FC Inter 12 13 FC [...]
Finnish Cup, 7th round
13. July 2007
I went to Tammela yesterday to see PP70 vs FC Lahti. Nobody was expecting much from PP70, as they were missing a few players. They are Tampere United’s farm club, and as such their goalkeeper Mika Hilander and strikers Jonne Hjelm and Miki Sipilainen didn’t play due to the rules on players ending up cup [...]
Haka 3 HJK 3
10. July 2007
TamU 13 29 MyPa 13 22 FC Haka 12 21 TPS 13 20 FC Honka 11 19 HJK 13 17 FF Jaro 11 15 FC Lahti 11 14 FC KooTeePee 11 14 FC Inter 12 13 VPS 13 12 FC Viikingit 11 11 AC Oulu 11 9 IFK Mariehamn 11 8 Highlights Good game, didn’t [...]
Making it more interesting
9. July 2007
So, TamU got spanked yesterday. A 4-1 defeat, only four subs, Wiss pulling out injured at the last minute…. What’s going on? I can only say that the selection looked strange to me. Apparently Sakari Saarinen played in defence, with Juska Savolainen playing the anchor role in midfield. It was a mess, by all accounts. [...]
Boletus mushrooms
8. July 2007
This guy is the 16 year old at Jippo who is causing a bit of a stir. I’ve noticed a few people arriving here by googling his name, so I’m passing on a good article I found about his father, for a little local colour. Some of the best stories about Finland are the ones [...]
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30. July 2007
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