Archive | March, 2008
Liigacup semi finals
The quarter finals were played last weekend. FC Inter beat TamU 5-3 on penalties, FC Honka beat FF Jaro 2-1, TPS, who won 3-2, avoided a Haka comeback after taking a comfortable 3-0 lead and FC Lahti went through against HJK as Tuomas Haapala scored an own goal in the 87th minute. In the semifinals [...]
Hodgson ‘blasts’ Litmanen
29. March 2008
I’m not really sure what Roy Hodgson expected, given Litmanen’s injury record, but he’s very angry that ‘the king’ isn’t playing enough for Fulham: Hodgson’s team go to rock-bottom Derby in a must-win game tomorrow. But despite Litmanen’s penalty in the 2-1 defeat in Bulgaria, former Finland boss Hodgson said: “He won’t be in contention [...]
Kevin Macdonald: ‘Finland, you are my bitch’
27. March 2008
He didn’t really say that, but it’s difficult not to draw that conclusion after he 1) ensured Finland’s best midfielder was too scared to play and 2) scored the winning goal that gives Scotland a glimmer of hope when they should really be dead and buried. I missed large parts of the game, unfortunately, but [...]
Scotland v Finland Under 21 live feed link
26. March 2008
You can watch Markku Kanerva’s men here. Link edited, should work now
Sons of Ben
24. March 2008
American football fans have been very busy recently. As there is no promotion or relegation between MLS and USL, the only way for a city to get a top class football team is to buy an MLS share, reputed to cost around $30m. To persuade the kind of cash-rich businessman who might fund such a [...]
Under 21s to face Scotland without Sparv
21. March 2008
Tim Sparv is injured, and won’t play against Scotland this Wednesday in Aberdeen. With Perparim Hetemaj already out and his brother Mehmet injured, it leaves Markku Kanerva’s men a bit short in midfield. Mikko Knuutila has an interesting solution on the Ilta Sanomat blog, namely that Roman Eremenko drops down from the senior squad and [...]
A present for Easter, Tamu’s 2003 season review
21. March 2008
If anyone ever tells you Ratina is as good a stadium as Tammela, tell them to watch this video. One day there’ll be top-flight football at Tammela again, it’s just too good a ground to be left in it’s current state. http://jaatiedostosi.com/Benito/Tampere_United_-_Kausi_2003.zip It’s quite big and takes a while to download.
Countdown to THE FOOTBALL!! (and please update your links)
16. March 2008
This adequately sums up the earth shattering events we will be covering in the next few months, and I really hope you follow everything from Veikkausliiga to Kolmonen (and below) right here at Football in Finland! If you have a link to the blog on a site you maintain, could you do us a favour [...]
Colin Burns
16. March 2008
Players arrive in Finland from many different countries, for many different reasons and with many different backgrounds. We’ve covered the Zambians at RoPs, but this post is about a success story from last season. Colin Burns was in a bit of a pickle when he left the University of Massachusetts. mid ranking and ‘developmental’ players [...]
Bilingualism
15. March 2008
As part of the global anglophonic hegemony, I don’t think too much about communicating with people in different languages, but a few things brought this home to me recently. It’s a big issue here (especially if you read Hufvudstadsbladet like I do), as Finland is officially bilingual and around 5% of the population are native [...]
MLS fans fight for away tickets
14. March 2008
I often think of football here as a kind of novelty, a minority sport that has to work quite hard among people who sometimes don’t quite ‘get it’. Like basketball in the UK, or football in America. This is a little unfair to Finland, as the recent controversy over away fans in MLS demonstrates – [...]
Mixu, father of a scotsman
13. March 2008
I wonder what Jyrki Heliskoski makes of this story from the Scotsman? Had it not been for his father bringing up the subject of his son after a business meeting in Scotland over 20 years ago then Mixu might now be here now. Neither is it likely that he would be the proud father of [...]
RoPS 0 TPS 1
13. March 2008
So Liigacup Group 1 is over as far as TPS are concerned. They are top at the moment, but Honka are not done yet and can still beat TPS due to better goal difference, provided they can win their last game. I only saw the second half, but I heard the first half was crap [...]
Attendances
11. March 2008
It’s been a while since I talked about crowd figures, and I don’t think we’ve done last year’s figures yet. Here they are: 2007 Attendances Team Biggest attendance Smallest attendance Average attendance TPS 8011 3612 5293 HJK 8733 3118 4848 TamU 8828 1925 4117 FC Honka 6657 1810 3934 FC [...]
Haka 3 Jaro 1
9. March 2008
Jaro went down 3-1 at Haka on Friday, leaving them in 3rd place in Group B with 9 points from 5 games. With the top four in each group progressing to the quarter finals, they should be confident enough, but they’ll have to perform better than they did on Friday if they want to win [...]
Tampere United 3 Honka 0
7. March 2008
TamU played much better last night, with Sakari Saarinen and Jari Niemi doing particularly well. They linked up for both goals, Saarinen getting the first with an excellent piledriver of a strike, and Niemi the second with a simple tap-in. Rafinha also did well, and the midfield looked a little bit more solid with Savolainen [...]
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