Archive | June, 2008
Lasha Chkhaidze
Just researching a story about football in Kajaani (keywords: smalltown rivalry), and came across this video of AC Kajaani’s Georgian midfielder Lasha.
TamU win sixpointer, look to Cup for European qualification
27. June 2008
MyPa – FC KooTeePee 2 – 0 FF Jaro – HJK 1 – 1 RoPS – FC Lahti 2 – 2 TamU – KuPS 2 – 0 IFK Mariehamn – FC Inter 1 – 1 FC Honka – VPS 1 – 2 Highlights here So, Tampere United got the win they desperately needed against KuPs. [...]
Veikkausliiga Round 9 preview
26. June 2008
After the depressing break in Veikkausliiga games caused by the European Championships, it is now time to get back to business. TPS beat Haka 2-0 yesterday. I only saw the first 20 minutes of the game and had to miss the remaining 70 minutes due to football-related duties elsewhere, but I heard the game was [...]
Football in Finland COMPETITION!
25. June 2008
Do you want to win this match worn shirt, kindly donated to Football in Finland? It’s from Stanley Festus’s time at Sepsi, and looks pretty damn smart: All you have to do is draw a picture of Kalervo Kummola at a Tampere United game and send it to footballinfinland ‘at’ gmail ‘dot’ com, along with [...]
Where does your heart lie?
19. June 2008
That’s the tagline for Sheffield Wednesday’s attempts to market a huge price hike in next year’s season tickets, and a disgraceful guilt tripping exercise it is too. Tampere United seem to have learnt a thing or two from the bigger leagues in Europe though, and their cup game pricing policy shows just what that is. [...]
Cup update and round-up
15. June 2008
Okay, I know: my last update was appallingly inaccurate. It was the Fifth round not the sixth, and the game kicked off a mere nine minutes after I’d concluded that there couldn’t possibly be a semi-professional match taking place there. This is, I suppose, a good indication of football’s underground guerrilla-like standing in Finland, when [...]
Väyrynen moves to Club Brugge
11. June 2008
It looks like Mika Väyrynen didn’t like the houmous at AEK, and has opted to go to Belgium instead. He will now get a chance to play in the Brugge derby, which looks like quite a fixture: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVfYZvRLZi8&feature=related]
Suomen Cup sixth round
10. June 2008
I’ve had really terrible luck with the Finnish Cup this year. It seemed like a great idea, back at the start of th season, to go to a game in every round, and follow the winners. Unfortunately, things like not-really-being-arsed-to-go-to-Hämeenlinna-on-a-Saturday-morning intervened, and I didn’t get very far. This continued today, with me trekking half an [...]
A Turku derby in Kakkonen
6. June 2008
For historical and political reasons, they always say that Turku is ahead of other parts of Finland in all areas of everyday life. Unfortunately, I had to notice yesterday that this statement does not apply to arranging Kakkonen games. As I headed over to Yläkenttä in Urheilupuisto last night to see Åbo IFK take on [...]
Väyrynen: AEKing to play
5. June 2008
Mika Väyrynen has had a torrid few years at PSV Eindhoven. His injury problems have disrupted his time significantly, and he has lost his place in the squad. PSV might even have forgotten about him, you never know. So it’s good to hear that he’s in negotiations to move to AEK Athens, a club with [...]
Berat Sadik heading south?
4. June 2008
This blog is a long-standing supporter of Berat Sadik, and so we were over several moons when he made his debut for the national team last week. He looks set to move abroad as well, with interest from Palermo, Bielefeld and Larissa making it difficult for Lahti to hang onto him. His contract expires at [...]
Eremenko Jr. caught drunk driving
2. June 2008
Alexei Eremenko jr. will not be playing against Belarus on Monday after being caught drunk driving in Pietarsaari a week ago. The Finnish FA made the only right decision and put Eremenko aside for the match against Belarus. That’s ugly enough already, but according to Iltalehti, Eremenko is whining about the situation. He says he will not [...]
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28. June 2008
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