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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...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...The Veikkausliiga preview that isn’t at all grim up north
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Veikkausliiga heads north today, with long journeys deep into the countryside for HJK and Tampere United. RoPS, KuPS and VPS all have nice grounds but terrible pitches, and the difficulty of getting results there has been evident in recent seasons, with VPS acting as a bit of a bogey side for TamU and KuPS getting [...]
Continue reading...Haka and HJK pull clear, Tamperelaiset get rained on
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Watching Tampere United struggle to a single goal victory over JJK at Ratina yesterday, it occurred to me just how astonishing it is that anyone watches Finnish football. The first half was enjoyably predictable, as TamU attacked and JJk attempted to string a few passes together. JJK’s South Korean striker Nam was brought off injured, [...]
Continue reading...The Veikkausliiga roundup that loves a five goal thriller
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Inter are not the luckiest team in Veikkausliiga, it has to be said. After losing Patrick Bantamoi to a red card in Sunday’s 2-0 defeat to HJK at Pallokenttä (HJK’s usual Töölö home having it’s new grass rested for the Euro 2009 championships in late August), their second goalkeeper David Monsalve was sent off in [...]
Continue reading...Sunday’s Veikkausliiga preview
Sunday, June 28, 2009
TPS won MYPA 3-1 and Lahti took a 2-1 win over Tampere United. The latter meant that my prediction accuracy fell from 100% to 50% compared to Wednesday’s round of games, and I’m too disillusioned to round the games up in any more depth now. I will round them up later, however, once the whole [...]
Continue reading...The Veikkausliiga preview that comes in the middle of a break that is not a break
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Veikkausliiga is kind of in the middle of a break because of the U21 European Championships. “Kind of” here means that in the public view, the league is on a break, but at the same time some fixtures are being played. A good way to get rid of spectators, I have to say.
Continue reading...VPS scored twice!
Sunday, May 24, 2009
It’s not April Fools’ Day, and I’m not kidding for any other reason either. See for yourself. Tony Björk found the net on the 12th minute and Antonio Inutile doubled the lead 11 minutes later. The two goals were enough to leave RoPS all alone in the relegation spot, and anger the fans. A thread [...]
Continue reading...Veikkausliiga Round seven preview, part one
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Tampere United v FC Honka, Sunday 6:30pm Tampere United have all the finesse, skill, confidence and panache of a bag of used cat litter right now. Their 1-0 loss to Haka was not an awful performance, but their goalkeeper messes up big time and they lost. he’s a young lad and should be replaced, but [...]
Continue reading...Kärkkäinen resigns
Friday, May 15, 2009
VPS went down 2-1 to Jaro in Wednesday’s Ostrobothnian derby, and VPS head coach Tomi Kärkkäinen felt he had had enough. He decided to hit the road a few hours later, and was honest enough to compose a press release in which he stated that he thought he does not have the resources to bring [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...The Sedu Koskinen show
Thursday, April 30, 2009
FC Haka 1 HJK 2 Highlights MyPa 4 Tampere United 1 Highlights Inter Turku 1 FF Jaro 0 Highlights IFK Mariehman 3 KuPS 0 Highlights FC Lahti 4 RoPS 1 Highlights The all new Tehttaan kenttä is quite an experience. It was all a bit much for me, and I arrived too late to actually [...]
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. [...]
Continue reading...KuPS hammered by RoPS, Jaro lose three points and Jonas Emet
Monday, July 21, 2008
RoPS built their convincing 4-0 win against KuPS on some excellent finishing at the offensive end. Chileshe Chibwe netted twice to give RoPS a 2-0 lead and the job was finished by Mika Nurmela and Juha Majava in the second half. Chibwe scored his first in the 6th with an excellent header and bagged another [...]
Continue reading...A trip to Jakobstad
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Sebastian Mannström’s a very good player. He was a constant threat for Jaro, breaking from midfield and finishing well, and shows that it is possible to buy good players from the Finnish lower divisions. He signed in the summer from GBK, is only 19 years old, and will surely make money for Jaro when he [...]
Continue reading...Veikkausliiga Round Five
Friday, May 16, 2008
MyPa 1 TPS 0 Honka 7 Haka 0 TamU 0 Lahti 2 KuPS 2 KTP 0 IFK Mariehamn 0 VPS 2 Inter 1 HJK 1 Jaro 1 RoPS 1 Click score for highlights. TamU were awful yesterday. No drive, no hunger, no nothing. Alex Ferguson once said that he only had to look in a [...]
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