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Finnish football, foreigners, and youth development
Soccernet recently asked me to write something about Finland’s new TV deal, specifically in relation to the bonuses for fielding fewer foreigners and the potential implications if this were applied in different leagues, but I haven’t yet gotten around to it. Partly because I just started a new job and am pretty busy at the [...]
Continue reading...Finland 2009 in pictures, part one
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
This is the first in a series of posts that will aim to tell something about Finland’s 2009 season using photgraphs. The pictures should form a gallery, when you click on one of them, but the text is not visible in those galleries. Thanks to Tero Wester, Petteri Lehtonen and FutisForum2 for all their help [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...Grand finale in Veikkausliiga as HJK, Honka and TPS could all win title
Friday, October 9, 2009
The top two failed to grab the title initiative on Sunday. HJK were lucky to escape with a point from Turku after an unconvincing performance and TPS didn’t do themselves any favours in the draw at MyPa, being two goals down already after twelve minutes. Honka, however, certainly left their mark in Espoo against relegation [...]
Continue reading...TPS and Honka on a rampage but HJK grind results and stay top
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
TPS and Honka received the plaudits last week, leaving utter destruction in their wake wherever they went. ‘Tepsi’ hammered KuPS 3-0 at home and raided RoPS 4-0 away. Honka weren’t much worse during their ‘difficult’ road-trip: coming away with the points from a 5-3 scoring rehearsal at FF Jaro and then going on to crush [...]
Continue reading...HJK find form at the most crucial stage
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
The title race took a dramatic twist on Sunday as FF Jaro ended TPS’s run of fifteen games without defeat with a 1-0 victory in Pietarsaari, while HJK and FC Honka recorded 2-0 home victories against VPS and Haka respectively. With four rounds to go, HJK may just have gained enough distance on their biggest [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...Finland’s rickety managerial carousel creaks into action
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Finnish domestic football looks quite exciting right now. The title race is now all about how TPS replace departing hero Wayne Brown, who set one up and scored the other in their 2-0 victory over VPS at the weekend. And we’ve even had one of the long-awaited managerial changes, as Jaro finally decided that they [...]
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...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...Puntteri´s pick of the week: RoPS
Friday, July 24, 2009
In the first of a new semi-regular feature, Puntteri picks out a promising bet from the weekend programme. Jekyll and Hyde team RoPS host FC Lahti this weekend Latest 6 games from the right: RoPS: 0-0-3-0-3-3 —- Lahti: 0-0-3-1-1-1 Head to Head: 3-8-9 This season: 29.04.2009 Lahti – RoPS 4-1 The head to head stats [...]
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...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, [...]
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