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Galactic Order Has Been Restored – NFN’s Veikkausliiga Preview – Rankings
Did you miss NFN’s three-part Veikkausliiga preview? Don’t worry, you can find it here, just click on the linka. Part I -Part II - Part III. Nordic Football News has once again brought you the most definitive Veikkausliiga preview concievable. Now for the final part, our standings prediction. After much debate and wrangling, NFN Editor Egan Richardson [...]
Continue reading...Who Shall Get the Last Laugh? A Look At Some Predictions
21. September 2010
Do you like self-congradulatory columns with a hint of smugness? In that case, you’re in luck! In a tradition stretching back to never before, let’s take a look at the predictions made in our Veikkausliiga preview package in April and see where we are. How has the season unfolded? Who gets the last laugh?»crosslinked«Tweet
Continue reading...Veikkausliiga round 8 preview
4. June 2010
The Finnish league has made it all the way to the 8th round, which makes us here at the NFN Ivory Tower quite ready and willing to single out some teams for harsh criticism. We could also carve out the positives out of some teams’ performances, but who wants to read good news anyway?Tweet
Continue reading...Last day of Veikkausliiga
16. October 2009
Saturday will see the season’s last day of Veikkausliiga football (relegation play-offs not included) before entering six months of meaningless obscurity. HJK, Honka and TPS will decide the fate of the top three positions, while one of JJK and RoPS will get relegated. Down at the bottom, it is less likely that a real battle [...]
Continue reading...The midweek Veikkausliiga preview
23. September 2009
The Veikkausliiga title race will have a new chapter written tonight. All teams in the top three have difficult fixtures ahead of them, so table-topping HJK might just find them on level points with TPS again. There is no reason to write off FC Honka either, despite them trailing by five points.Tweet
Continue reading...The segmented Veikkausliiga preview
20. September 2009
With Autumn drawing in, Veikkausliiga is sorting itself into distinct sections going into the closing stages of the season. The top two are matching each other blow for blow in the fight for the championship, the next group of five are dropping points and beating each other as nobody really cements their hold on third [...]
Continue reading...The Stuart Baxter revolution: It is time for the Scotsman to show that he is not all talk
3. September 2009
It is going to be a crucial week for the Finland coach Stuart Baxter as his team travel to Azerbaijan and Liechtenstein. The week might even become to define his era as the coach of the Finnish national team in two respects. Firstly, even though again Finland can only fantasise about qualifying for the World [...]
Continue reading...Brown returns, Tepsi expects: the ‘maybe Finnish football isn’t totally rubbish’ preview
21. August 2009
Friday The weekend kicks off tonight, with Alexei Eremenko senior’s first game in charge of FF Jaro. The former JBK coach takes the reigns from Mika Laurikainen, who seemed bewildered that he got the sack after the team’s form collapsed following the announcement of his departure at season’s end. Jaro felt they might as well [...]
Continue reading...Sunday’s Veikkausliiga preview
9. August 2009
It’s another derby day in Veikkausliiga. Besides the Turku derby and Honka-HJK game, it is perhaps best exemplified by RoPS’ 800-kilometre bus trip to Turku, followed by a good six hours on the ferry to Åland, where they will finally play IFK Mariehamn – before doing the same thing over again, having a night’s sleep [...]
Continue reading...The ‘strictly one manager per club’ Veikkausliiga preview
2. August 2009
VPS v Lahti, Sunday 6:30pm Lahti are fresh from their exploits in Brugge, where they lost in a hopeful, promising, away-goals-scoring kind of a way. The other Finnish teams in Europe have been uniformly rubbish, so Finnish perceptions of the level of domestic football largely hang on the ability of Jari Litmanen and co to [...]
Continue reading...TPS – Tampere United LIVE result: 1-0
31. July 2009
TPS – Tampere United What would a man want to do on a Friday night, if not go to a football game and watch it from behind a computer screen. My nerdiness at least has developed to such an extent that I am turning my back on Kari Tapio and Tapani Kansa and going to [...]
Continue reading...Puntteri’s Midweek Pick: Atlantis
28. July 2009
Like Saturday’s pick, this is not the most obvious of choices. The club is bottom of the table, they have been in turmoil for years for different reasons. Almost nobody likes them that much, and even their home support is non-existent if we leave out the few soccer-moms and the friends of the players. This [...]
Continue reading...Sunday’s Veikkausliiga preview
26. July 2009
Unlike we predicted, Inter took a 1-0 away win at Jaro thanks to a late goal from Joni Kauko. Accidents happen when you combine Egan, a laptop and an internet connection, but we are stupid enough to keep on previewing even if we are not necessarily on the winning side any more. All games start [...]
Continue reading...Saturday’s Veikkausliiga preview: FF Jaro v Inter Turku
25. July 2009
FF Jaro v Inter Turku, Saturday 25 July kickoff 16:00 Inter aim to recover from their European elimination (more on this later) with a trip to Jakobstad to meet FF Jaro. The town is currently celebrating Jakob’s days, an annual festival of bachanalian debauchery, and the game will take place amid hangovers aplenty. If Jaro’s [...]
Continue reading...Puntteri´s pick of the week: RoPS
24. July 2009
In the first of a new semi-regular feature, Puntteri picks out a promising bet from the weekend programme. Jekyll and Hyde team RoPS host FC Lahti this weekend Latest 6 games from the right: RoPS: 0-0-3-0-3-3 —- Lahti: 0-0-3-1-1-1 Head to Head: 3-8-9 This season: 29.04.2009 Lahti – RoPS 4-1 The head to head stats [...]
Continue reading...HJK keep noses in front in Veikkausliiga race
20. July 2009
Pasi Rautiainen is one of the funniest men in Veikkausliiga, and after 7,319 people filled Kupittaa Stadium today for Tepsi’s crucial clash with HJK he was in the mood to entertain. TPS had clawed back a point through Mika Ääritalo in the 86th minute after Chris Cleaver had earlier put through his own goal to [...]
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