Archive | September, 2008
Honka v Racing Santander live blog
I’ve got shitloads of things to do right now, exams, seminars and the like, and so posting will be a bit light this week. I would like to advertise our coverage of the Honka-Santander match on Thursday, though. I’ll be there, and will do a live blog of minute-by-minute updates on the game. You’ll have [...]
New Champions
26. September 2008
There will be new Veikkausliiga champions this year. HJK lost 3-2 at home to Jaro last night, and today’s papers are enjoyably miserable for anyone who didn’t want HJK to win it. Jussi Aalto got two of the goals, and HJK missed a lot of chances, but in the end it was Aalto’s clinical finishing [...]
Smoked out
22. September 2008
Tampere United fans were a little bit disgruntled on Sunday. They had been chucked out of the HJK match en masse for letting off smoke bombs, a ridiculous over-reaction and unnecessary collective punishment. The first half of the VPS match was extremely dull as a result, as the Sinikaarti section was empty and the fans [...]
Yle vs. Urheilukanava
21. September 2008
Yle started their Veikkausliiga broadcasts today as FF Jaro played FC Lahti. The system in Finland is quite interesting: Urheilukanava broadcast the games from April to September, and Yle are only interested when the title is about to be won. The move from Urheilukanava to Yle may raise the number of people watching, as Urheilukanava [...]
Musan Salama 1 FC Jazz Juniors 1
20. September 2008
I should make a declaration here: I have strong Musa sympathies. It wasn’t really a day to be neutral, given that the top of the Kolmonen table looked like this in the morning, before the last game of the season: FC Jazz Juniors, pl 17 pts 45 Musan Salama, pl 17 pts 44 So Musa [...]
Finland’s young guns frighten Germany
19. September 2008
Finland were without Jari Litmanen when they took on European Championship runners-up Germany at the Olympic Stadium, but they still managed to put in an excellent performance in Stuart Baxer’s first competitive game in charge, drawing the match 3-3. EGAN RICHARDSON HELSINKI TIMES FINLAND PLAYED without Jari Litmanen and scored three times against the second [...]
Helsinki Times column: Does Finland have a football culture?
19. September 2008
The question is often asked. A lot of people think that Finland has no football culture, that this country does not understand or properly appreciate the game, that its players are unloved and it’s teams ignored. To those people the mere phrase “football culture” is anathema, something that happens elsewhere, irrelevant to Finland. Of course [...]
The UEFA Cup First Round match Racing Santander – FC Honka starts at 21:30 tonight Finnish time
18. September 2008
That’s what it says at the bottom of the Helsingin Sanomat preview this morning. Normally it offers a way of following the game, on TV or radio, but those options are not available Finland tonight, because nobody has bought the rights. I contacted the Norwegian company that held the rights for the Viking Stavanger game [...]
Kuusela packs his bags, Allen to fill in
15. September 2008
Following an utterly disappointing season, TPS have sacked head coach Martti Kuusela. Personally, I am shocked with the announcement. Letting your head coach go is not unusual when you don’t get the right result, but there are very few cases in the history of TPS when a head coach has been sacked while the season [...]
Berat Sadik takes big steps
15. September 2008
There’s an article on Berat Sadik at uefa.com right now. My HBL didn’t arrive this morning so I’m waiting a little before I do a Veikkausliiga post, but it was an extremely eventful round of games.
Markku Kanerva’s Under 21 side to face Austria in the Euro play-offs
12. September 2008
The full draw, made by Henrik Larsson this morning: Germany v France Denmark v Serbia Turkey v Belarus Austria v Finland Wales v England Italy v Israel Switzerland v Spain Finland play in Pasching on the 10th of October, with the return leg in Finland to take place on the 14th. The venue has not [...]
Stuart Baxter’s disappointment
11. September 2008
Okay, editing the previous post is not really going to work so well, so I will endeavour to produce one of those journalist-writing-about-journalists pieces that do so much to increase the sum of human knowledge. As mentioned before, William Moore’s report is the best place to start. I did something for soccernet, but it is [...]
Finland 3 Germany 3
11. September 2008
I’m working on something for another site that will be available here soon, but in the meantime William Moore has a good report over at Helsingin Sanomat’s English Edition. I (and maybe Juha, if he wants to) will edit this post accordingly later on today. EDIT 1: Watch the highlights at 101Greatgoals, and tell me [...]
European Under 21 Championship Qualifying: Finland 2 Denmark 1
6. September 2008
So, FInland are in the play-offs. A good performance from everyone, with special mentions for Juha Hakola, Tim Sparv and substitute Jarno Parikka, and it was a good attendance too. The support from the Finland fans was mentioned in Niklas Hägen’s excellent report in HBL, in particular that there were songs to the tune of [...]
Viatcheslav Malakeev: Ykkönen’s answer to Iordan Letchkov
4. September 2008
I went to Hämeenlinna on Tuesday to see Viikingit’s second defeat of the season. I’ve been there twice now, both times in very very wet conditions, and I can’t help thinking the ground will be very nice in the sun. If the sun ever shines in Hämeenlinna, that is. The game was tight and tense [...]
A very Finnish ‘riot’
1. September 2008
I live in the most violent country in Western Europe. Homicides are more common here than anywhere else that wasn’t run by communists until the early 90s. Someone was stabbed in the chest in the central square of Tampere on Friday night, I have seen numerous fights there, and when people are drunk you know [...]
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