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Scandinavians Abroad Weekend Round Up
Scandinavians endured a mixed weekend as most of the football concerns were on matters such as transfers rather than what was actually happening on the pitch. Five Scandinavian stars managed to get on the score sheet, others outlined their value to their clubs as their main assets(notably Pedersen) and some just had a pain in the jaw with what was going on around them.
Continue reading...Finland 2009 in pictures, part three
Saturday, November 21, 2009
In part three of our pictorial roundup of 2009, we focus on the senior men’s national team. Click on the photos to enlarge.
Continue reading...Johansson scores one and sets up another as Finland draw in Hamburg
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
It was billed as the day Finland’s young players would come of age, and those that played certainly did that. Roni Porokara was a constant threat to Beck on Finland’s left wing, Kasper Hämäläinen linked up on the other wingand was not overawed in front of a crowd 12 times larger than his club’s average [...]
Continue reading...Evolution beats revolution as Wales fall to Finland
Sunday, October 11, 2009
*Scroll down for highlights* It wasn’t exactly a momentous occasion. In the run-up to the game someone had scrawled “PALLOLIITTO HAISTAKAA VITTU” (“Finnish FA get to fuck”) on the wall outside the Football Association’s offices, evidence of the hostility Finland’s football decision makers can face when their performance is deemed unsatisfactory. The hostility comes from small [...]
Continue reading...Baxter loses face in Liechtenstein
Friday, September 11, 2009
Finland were so utterly rubbish in the matches against Azerbaijan and Liechtenstein that it simply defies belief. Wednesday night goes down among the worst nights in the history of Finnish football. It wasn’t just that it was bad, it was bloody embarrassing. If this is the best that Mr. Baxter can provide with the selection [...]
Continue reading...Life after Liverpool – Hyypiä’s Ferrari fascinates Bild, Kuqis reunited, Berg and Kahlenburg aim to impress
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
The first round of the DFB Pokal, played over the weekend, offered Germany’s Nordic players a chance to test their fitness in more challenging settings than they’ve seen over the summer. The biggest clubs enter in the first round, giving up home advantage to the minnows as the competition tries to encourage upsets. This first [...]
Continue reading...Make or break time for Finland
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Stakes are high on Wednesday night as Finland and Russia take on the pitch at Helsinki’s Olympic Stadium for their World Cup 2010 qualifier. With Germany having the upper hand in group 4 and Wales, Azerbaijan and Liechenstein pretty much out of contention, the stage is set for Finland and Russia to seal the fate [...]
Continue reading...Finland in Norway = did you bring your boots?
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
After a lot of tut-tutting over Craig Bellamy’s idiotic comments, the Finnish squad is looking a little bit threadbare as they prepare for the vitally important friendly against Norway. Lillestrom keeper Otto Fredriksson will watch the game from the sidelines so as to avoid aggravating a troublesome knee. Niklas Moisander has decided he doesn’t want [...]
Continue reading...Wales v Finland preview
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Finland are suffering from the usual injury worries, with Teemu Tainio and Mika Väyrynen out, but Jari Litmanen’s fitness is a welcome boost for Stuart Baxter. The FC Lahti striker, who scored the first ever goal at the Millenium stadium in 2000, has recovered from a clash of heads that saw him withdraw midway through [...]
Continue reading...Sami Hyypiä
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
This article is in the new ‘Oh Sami Sami’ brochure, published to celebrate Sami Hyypiä’s ten years at Liverpool. When Finns talk about their greatest footballers, Sami Hyypiä is always near the top of the list. Although he has won European trophies during his time at Liverpool, Finland have not reached the same heights. Hyypiä’s international [...]
Continue reading...Portugal 1 Finland 0
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Highlights here The early stages of this game resembled a cavalry charge, with Portuguese attackers swarming all over the Finnish defence and shooting at will. There was some desperate last-ditch defending, some decent saves from Jussi Jääskeläinen, but most of all a lot of wasteful finishing from the Portuguese strikers. Deco broke clear down the right [...]
Continue reading...Russia 3 Finland 0: old-school Finnish football is back!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Just last night I thought Finnish football had changed considerably as the U-21 team overturned a deficit to come out as victors against Austria, but little did I know. Tonight, Finland went down 3-0 against Russia and to make it Finnish enough, the first two goals were Finland’s own goals and Arshavin’s strike that settled [...]
Continue reading...Finland 1 Azerbaijan 0
Sunday, October 12, 2008
[youtube=http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=EXDBP4GrX00] William’s report is here The game kicked off with a bit of an embarrassing anthem disruption from the North Curve. They kept singing while the Helsinki Police band were giving a decent rendition of Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Himni, the Azeri national anthem. They’re done great stuff recently, and there was a gushing article in yesterday’s Ilta-Sanomat, [...]
Continue reading...Finland’s young guns frighten Germany
Friday, September 19, 2008
Finland were without Jari Litmanen when they took on European Championship runners-up Germany at the Olympic Stadium, but they still managed to put in an excellent performance in Stuart Baxer’s first competitive game in charge, drawing the match 3-3. EGAN RICHARDSON HELSINKI TIMES FINLAND PLAYED without Jari Litmanen and scored three times against the second best team in [...]
Continue reading...Stuart Baxter’s disappointment
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Okay, editing the previous post is not really going to work so well, so I will endeavour to produce one of those journalist-writing-about-journalists pieces that do so much to increase the sum of human knowledge. As mentioned before, William Moore’s report is the best place to start. I did something for soccernet, but it is [...]
Continue reading...Stuart Baxter on Arto Nyberg
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Stuart Baxter was on Arto Nyberg’s chat show tonight. Nyberg has a standard format of three guests per show, and when they are not Finnish speakers they usually come on last, and Nyberg interprets after each answer. At least that’s what they did when beer expert Michael Jackson was on last year, but this [...]
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Monday, February 1, 2010
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