Tag Archive | "Attendances"
Veikkausliiga in crisis?
The Finnish newspapers have been full of talk about Veikkausliiga’s apparent ‘crisis’ in the last few weeks. Domestic football in Finland has long suffered from poor facilities, low attendances, players leaving for richer foreign leagues, but these problems have become more prominent recently, and the football media has not been slow to point out the [...]
Continue reading...Veikkausliiga Round Four Preview part 3
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
HJK v IFK Mariehamn, Wednesday 6:30pm This is, somewhat surprisingly, a top of the table clash. IFK have already beaten last season’s champions, drawn with one of the favourites for this season, and had a regulation win over wooden spoon-chasers KuPS. This puts them level on points with HJK, who dropped their two points at home [...]
Continue reading...Those Jari Viita people
Monday, May 4, 2009
Ari Hjelm has been with Tampere United throughout their ten-year history, first as an assistant to Harri Kampman and then from 2001 as head coach. He has won three championships, and it is a common refrain in Tampere that he is primarily responsible for the club’s success, and that he is the best coach in [...]
Continue reading...Paatelainen secures 2-2 draw, Litti plays 90 mins, Jaro beat TamU
Friday, April 24, 2009
HJK 2 TPS 2 Highlights Pasi Rautiainen’s haircut garnered a lot of headlines when he unveiled it at the Veikkausliiga media event on the eve of the season. The formerly wild-haired TPS coach claimed that his new, clean-cut image was the result of a marital diktat after his wife finally snapped at her husband’s barber-aversion. His innately scruffy [...]
Continue reading...Veikkausliiga clubs hope for 3,000 fans per game
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Veikkausliiga announced their hoped-for attendance figures yesterday, and they seem to be grounded in as much reality as the budgets. Clubs are hoping for an increase in their attendances that may be difficult to achieve with current facilities, as well as the cold, hard fact that most clubs will be unsuccessful in most seasons. Valkeakosken haka [...]
Continue reading...Veikkausliiga 2009 round one: The Harkimo-Håkans appreciation preview
Friday, April 17, 2009
As this opening round of Veikkausliiga has been decimated by pitch related postponements, this preview is dedicated to the two men who have actually done quite a lot to get playable pitches in Finland. Harkimo was instrumental in the construction of Finnair Stadium in Töölö, before selling his stake in the ground andwinding up Jokerit’s [...]
Continue reading...2008 Veikkausliiga – the changing of the guard
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The biggest disappointment this year has been HJK Helsinki. They started with high hopes, big signings, and a fluent attacking style, but things have fallen apart for them since the 3-2 win over Inter that seemed to renew their title hopes back in August. Their strategy – big money signings combined with the cream of [...]
Continue reading...Baxter’s dress rehearsal: Finland 2 Israel 0
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Stuart Baxter said that the Israel game would be a dress rehearsal for the Germany match in September, and he was pretty relieved that it went as well as it did. The high spot was Veli Lampi’s full debut, as the former TPS right back looked solid and put in some excellent crosses including the [...]
Continue reading...What a strange weekend
Monday, August 11, 2008
Ilkka Mäkelä had hoped for 5-6,000, but in the end the attendance for Jari Litmanen’s return was 4,163. Seasoned football-watchers were unsurprised about that, given the history of football in Lahti. One told me that “hardly anybody in Lahti supports FC Lahti. The real clubs there are Kuusysi and Reipas.” A Reipas banner was displayed [...]
Continue reading...Third round of Veikkausliiga
Friday, May 9, 2008
Tampere United 1 TPS 1 Honka 0 RoPS 0 Inter 1 Haka 0 KuPS 2 Lahti 3 VPS 0 HJK 0 MIFK 4 KTP 2 MyPa 3 Jaro 0 Click on the result to get highlights. Be sure to check out RoPS’s ridiculous green shirt. Well, TamU messed things up a bit at the end there. They had looked a lot more stable [...]
Continue reading...Train kept-a-rollin’…
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Finns adore the football culture in countries that have it. And they love reading stories about how their friends or internet pals have travelled to Sweden or somewhere to take a glimpse on the culture. It’s not every week that football fans from all over Finland travel to see a game of their choice in Finland, though. [...]
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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