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Veikkausliiga round 8 preview
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?
Continue reading...Veikkausliiga Power Rankings Week 1
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Janne Oivio continues his skewed coverage of Veikkausliiga following the preview package published last week. It’s ridiculously early to do a power ranking, but I don’t care. Having just completed NFN’s Massive Veikkausliiga Preview I was so delighted with myself that I decided to begin a running feature which will run hopefully every other week.
Continue reading...Inter – IFK Mariehamn live on Facebook tonight
Monday, April 19, 2010
I am kicking off my Veikkausliiga season in Turku tonight, and will continue our cherished tradition of live blogs. I’m blogging live on our Facebook profile this time, as the NFN website is somewhat lacking in capacity when it comes to handling a lot of traffic. The game kicks off at 20:30 PM Finnish time. [...]
Continue reading...NFN’s Massive Veikkausliiga Preview Package Part Three: The Title Contenders
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Calling the champion is tougher than usual. HJK were clear favorites last year and duly took what they should have. This year is different, though. Honka is right in the mix.
Continue reading...Random predictions for Veikkausliiga 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
In the run-up to my Massive Season Preview 2010 (to be published very, very soon), I thought I’d start off with the conventional random predictions and pre-emptive awards for the upcoming season.
Continue reading...Finland gets ready for the television era
Friday, January 15, 2010
Photo by Tero Wester Finnish club football seems to be on the cusp of some major upheaval. The combination of new leadership at the FA following the retirement of former president Pekka Hämäläinen and the election of Sauli Niinistö to replace him, combined with the arrival of a paying broadcaster and all that entails in [...]
Continue reading...Transfer Weekly (week 50): The Weekly is estimating percentages as Lyyski signs for DIF and Muurinen says he is only there to help
Friday, December 11, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Transfer Weekly (week 47): JJK hire Martonen as coach and are Atletico Madrid really viewing Sasha Anttilainen as a future replacement for Sergio Aguero?
Friday, November 20, 2009
The Weekly is a little bit grumpy today because just when it was on the verge of scoring a new record of how many staples it can shoots inside a litter basket with a staple-gun inside sixty seconds, it was distracted by a volley of incoming transfer news that had been close to non-existent for [...]
Continue reading...Is it really worth showing it on TV anyway?
Monday, September 14, 2009
So after an appropriate period of reflection on WEURO2009, which was excellent fun, and Finland’s men’s national team games, which certainly weren’t, it’s back to the domestic season for NFN’s Finland station. We never really stopped – FC Hämeenlinna’s 4-2 defeat at home to Viikingit was thoroughly enjoyable, thanks largely to Viikingit’s large and loud [...]
Continue reading...Brown returns, Tepsi expects: the ‘maybe Finnish football isn’t totally rubbish’ preview
Friday, August 21, 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...Pele, Nam do the business as dogfight contenders improve: Veikkausliiga roundup, including highlights links
Monday, August 3, 2009
This round of Veikkausliiga featured excellent performances from two out of three relegation candidates, and some indifferent displays from the title chasers. It’s a frustrating feature of Veikkausliiga, and one that speaks of financial crises and short term thinking rather than a level playing field and uniformly high standards. JJK wanted to see how their [...]
Continue reading...The ‘strictly one manager per club’ Veikkausliiga preview
Sunday, August 2, 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...Veikkausliiga Round 16: Dead men walking fight to stalemate in Töölö
Monday, July 27, 2009
The build up to today’s ‘classico’ was dominated by HJK’s elimination from Europe after a 3-1 defeat at home to Vetra, from Lithuania. Before Thursday night, no Lithuanian team had ever won a knockout tie in Europe after playing and losing the first leg at home. HJK fans were already planning their trips to London [...]
Continue reading...Sunday’s Veikkausliiga preview
Sunday, July 26, 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...HJK keep noses in front in Veikkausliiga race
Monday, July 20, 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 [...]
Continue reading...FC Inter – IFK Mariehamn LIVE, result: 1-1
Saturday, July 11, 2009
FC Inter (6th) – IFK Mariehamn (4th), Saturday 6:30 PM The weekend (Monday included) has a full round of Veikkausliiga in store for football fans. Tonight’s game is first of the seven matches to be played, and NFN will treat you to minute-by-minute updates of the game in this post. The page does not refresh [...]
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