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TPV 3 Klubi 04 2: ressies out!
One of the many loveable idiosyncrasies of Finnish football is the relaxed attitude to registrations taken by the authorities here. Players can switch clubs with bewildering regularity, via an intricate network of co-operation agreements between clubs at all levels of the game. Promising young defender Johannes Mononen has played for all three of Tampere’s top [...]
Tammela Talk: Finnish football phrase book
23. May 2010
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying this football season. Pub Harald have expanded their beer-selling operations from Ilves to TPV matches, ensuring that pretty much every game taking place at Tammela can now be enjoyed with alcoholic enhancement. And Finnish football, much as I love it, does often need alcoholic enhancement.
Photo special: Frozen football
25. January 2010
Photo by Tiina Pirilä Finland has often debated whether to lengthen the season by starting early. As climate change accelerated in recent years, the discussion has intensified and the late-starting schedule has come under fire, but this year things are a little different. Temperatures have barely struggled above -10 across large parts of Finland since [...]
Transfer Weekly (week 50): The Weekly is estimating percentages as Lyyski signs for DIF and Muurinen says he is only there to help
11. December 2009
The Weekly knows it has been bunking off recently and has not been fulfilling its obligations to write a few lines roughly once a week about close to none-existent transfers in Finnish football. And the Weekly used to be a right perky worker. In terms of work ethic, everything changed after Antti Muurinen, the Weekly’s [...]
Mourad Seddiki
10. December 2009
ALGERIAN football is on something of a roll right now. The national team has triumphed over adversity, rock-throwing Egyptian fans in Cairo and a tricky play-off in Khartoum to secure qualification for their first World Cup since 1986, and the Algerian diaspora has reacted appropriately. Wild celebrations took place in Paris and in Algerian communities [...]
Midweek Pick for Ykkönen – goals galore at Vuosaari!
5. August 2009
A goalfest is not really needed, I would happily settle for 3 goals in this derby between FC Viikingit – PK35 tonight in the ‘rough’ Eastern suburbs of Helsinki. Like all of my picks, this one is based on a combination of performances on the pitch and statistics. I have seen both teams play, improve, [...]
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 [...]
Kerry Skepple interview
13. May 2009
ATLANTIS are not the most glamorous of teams to play for, but Helsinki football has been a revelation for their Antiguan striker since he signed for the Ykkönen side. Having played part time in his homeland, making ends meet by working as a journalist, the opportunity to play professionally arrived late for Skepple. The German [...]
Tampere cancels football, saves pitch for Bruce to run on
16. April 2009
Tampere city council’s finest sport facilities maintenance minds were hard at work today, trying to decide how to ensure Tampere’s most successful club could fulfil it’s fixtures that Bruce Springsteen’s concert at Ratina Stadium on 2 June can go ahead without fans risking the horror of muddy shoes. Present at the meeting were Esa Auvinen [...]
Photo Gallery: Lapland derby
20. January 2009
PS Kemi 1 TP-47 0 17 July 2008 This fixture drew an attendance of 1,660 people, a big crowd for the Finnish First Division and an all-time record for PS Kemi. The Sauvosaari ground in the centre of Kemi once saw a crowd of over 4,000, for a promotion play-off between Into Kemi and Ponnistus [...]
Espoo
23. October 2008
Cities tend to have a distinguishing feature, something that sets them apart from their rivals. Venice has canals, Barcelona offers weird looking Gaudi architecture, New York has sky scrapers. In Espoo – second biggest municipality in Finland, and home to Nokia headquarters – the main feature of the landscape is the car park. Multi-story, dirt-track, [...]
JJK win promotion to Veikkausliiga
18. October 2008
Jyväskylä in Central Finland is a town of about 85 000 people and until today it has held a record they should not be proud of: for a long time Jyväskylä has been the biggest town in Finland that has never had a football club in Veikkausliiga, the top flight of Finnish football. In Jyväskylä, [...]
Atlantis 1 JJK 0
13. October 2008
This game kicked off at 2pm on Saturday, 3 hours before the Finland-Azerbaijan game and just 100 metres from the Olympic Stadium. The ground is called Bollis, or Pallokenttä, and it is the oldest football ground in Finland. There is only one stand, it is uncovered, but when fans chant the echo from the apartment [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Demba Savage signs for FC Honka
31. August 2008
That’s about the size of it. I’m very pleased about this, Savage is a skillful, quality player and has deserved his chance for a long time. I’m sure he’ll do a good job for Honka. It’s good that Finnish clubs have the financial might to sign players like Savage from decent Ykkönen clubs. That has [...]
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1. August 2010
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