Nordic Football News

Racism in Finnish football

This week started off with an unpleasant incident at Finnair Stadium, when bananas were thrown at RoPS players at the end of their game against HJK. RoPS have signed a number of Africans over the years. Some have become firm favourites, like Zeddy Saileti, who took on new coaching duties at the start of the [...]

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Helsinki Times: Turku football boom

It is exactly one year since the first English language weekly newspaper in Finland began publication. To celebrate there are a lot of extra features, including this article on Turku’s football boom. If you haven’t seen the paper yet, I recommend buying a copy this week. Here’s the article: 9th May 2008 DURING the first half, one [...]

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Match of the season so far

TamU 10 23 TPS 10 20 FC Haka 10 20 FC Honka 10 16 MyPa 11 16 HJK 11 15 FC Lahti 9 14 FF Jaro 10 12 FC KooTeePee 10 11 VPS 11 10 FC Inter 10 9 AC Oulu 11 9 FC Viikingit 9 8 IFK Mariehamn 10 8 Yesterday’s results: FC Inter - HJK 1 - 1 FC Haka - AC Oulu 2 - 0 VPS - FC KooTeePee 1 - 0 Highlights TPS-Tampere is going to be pretty big tonight. It’s the kind of match Tampere lost regularly last season, or at least failed to take advantage of, but were never really punished for. I don’t think they’ll be [...]

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Owls, Romans and upsetting results for HJK and KooTeePee

Well Finland seems to have gone owl-crazy. Ilta Sanomat suggested a new kit for the national team, and some lovely owl related merchandise. I love it, being blue and white striped with the trappings of the greatest bird in football. We’ll see if the Finnish Football Association (SPL) follow it up. I have to say [...]

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