Highlights and tables

Tue, Aug 28, 2007

I’ve been in the forest chopping wood and sweating in a shed, and have neglected the football scene. Highlights of TamU-Oulu include two dodgy types harassing Ville Lehtinen before kickoff, but the big man couldn’t do much as Oulu lost 4-1.

Veikkausliiga table:

TamU	16	36
FC Haka	16	33
FC Honka	17	26
TPS	17	26
FC Inter	18	23
HJK	17	23
FC Lahti	17	22
MyPa	17	22
VPS	18	22
FC KooTeePee	18	21
FF Jaro	17	19
FC Viikingit	16	17
IFK Mariehamn	17	17
AC Oulu	17	14

In Ykkönen it looks like ground regulations will decide who gets promoted as Veikkausliiga stand firm. I’ll reserve judgment on this as I don’t know too much about the situation. I’d like to see RoPs go up, but if there’s any point in ground regulations they do sometimes have to be enforced. The best resolution would be for RoPs to get a new stadium as soon as possible and be allowed to get promotion. In this case RoPs being kept down might well lead to JJK going up, and they don’t even have floodlights, so it’s hard to see the rationale for the punishment unless Veikkaulsiiga go down the table as far as it takes to get a team able to play in a Veikkausliiga standard ground. Here’s the table, and it looks like PK-35 would be the beneficiaries of that policy. I’ll post a bit more about why that might be a good idea tomorrow.

RoPS	18	12	4	2	32 – 17	40
KuPS	18	10	6	2	33 – 14	36
JJK	17	9	5	3	34 – 16	32
TP-47	18	8	4	6	26 – 19	28
PK-35	17	7	6	4	26 – 18	27
TPV	18	7	5	6	23 – 27	26
FC Hämeenlinna	18	6	5	7	23 – 20	23
VIFK	17	5	6	6	18 – 25	21
KPV	18	5	6	7	17 – 32	21
Atlantis	17	5	5	7	20 – 22	20
PP-70	18	5	5	8	23 – 30	20
GBK	18	5	3	10	23 – 33	18
JIPPO	18	3	6	9	16 – 27	15
Klubi-04	18	1	6	11	16 – 30	9