I should make a declaration here: I have strong Musa sympathies. It wasn’t really a day to be neutral, given that the top of the Kolmonen table looked like this in the morning, before the last game of the season: FC Jazz Juniors, pl 17 pts 45 Musan Salama, pl 17 pts 44 So Musa [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 8, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 5, 2007
Literally, the lightning of Musa. These boys are a football team from a suburb of Pori, a middling club whose situation is a good illustration of how Finnish football is structured. Musa is a quiet place, full of little cottages and houses built for soldiers returning from the second world war. There is a pub [...]
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
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