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Photo special: Frozen football 2
Haka and JJK postponed their League Cup match last Friday, because it was forecast to be too cold for them to play. The Finnish FA advises that games are not played when the temperature is below -10, so given the -15 weathe rforecast last week, the best option was to call it off and reschedule [...]
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...Antti Muurinen’s HJK win 2009 Veikkausliiga
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Veikkausliiga final day highlights In the end, everything went as expected. HJK got the point they needed to secure their 22nd title, despite Jaro taking the lead on eight minutes after Tillman Grove swept the ball home following a cross from the left. HJK’s cautious outlook has been criticised this season, but a draw was all [...]
Continue reading...The segmented Veikkausliiga preview
Sunday, September 20, 2009
With Autumn drawing in, Veikkausliiga is sorting itself into distinct sections going into the closing stages of the season. The top two are matching each other blow for blow in the fight for the championship, the next group of five are dropping points and beating each other as nobody really cements their hold on third [...]
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 take [...]
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 Ykkönen [...]
Continue reading...Haka’s winter of the long knives stretches on past summer
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Haka 2 (Ikävalko 27, Ristilä 76) JJK 4 (Viljanen og 45, Nam 70 and 74, Sund 89) Attendance: 2,028 Haka’s wretched form continued at Tehttaan Kenttä today with a dismal 4-2 defeat to JJK. Having lost three of their last four games, the Valkeakoski side are in danger of slipping out of contention for the title after [...]
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 turn [...]
Continue reading...TPS – Tampere United LIVE result: 1-0
Friday, July 31, 2009
TPS – Tampere United What would a man want to do on a Friday night, if not go to a football game and watch it from behind a computer screen. My nerdiness at least has developed to such an extent that I am turning my back on Kari Tapio and Tapani Kansa and going to spend [...]
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...Haka – TPS preview
Monday, July 13, 2009
Haka (2nd) – TPS (3rd), Monday 7 PM Live on Urheilukanava and streams PREVIEW: This week and the next are of definitive nature as far as the title race is concerned. TPS will play both Haka and table-topping HJK this week, and two wins could see them occupy the driving seat. Two draws would leave everything to [...]
Continue reading...Road to Töölö: Suomen Cup sixth round preview
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The preview of the sxth round should take many forms, the first one being a homage to Pasi Rautiainen. This Monday’s match between Honka and TPS in Tapiola turned into something of a media event, with most of the Finnish under-21 squad presented with roses for their achievement in failing to win a single game [...]
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 round-up that is openly sympathetic to VPS
Monday, June 1, 2009
We apologise for being unable to write a preview of last night’s games, but here’s an extended round-up to ease the pain. MYPA – VPS 0-2 I can’t help gloryhunting. VPS took a third consecutive win and I just have to support them. If I didn’t, I would be scared by them. New head coach Petri Vuorinen [...]
Continue reading...Veikkausliiga in crisis?
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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 7: JJK – FC Honka preview
Saturday, May 23, 2009
JJK have had an encouraging start to their first ever campaign in the Finnish top flight. They have already managed to limit TPS, Haka and HJK to draws, and nothing suggests that they could not cause another upset against Honka, especially as Honka have had a poor start to this year’s Veikkausliiga. I wouldn’t necessarily [...]
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
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