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Finnish Cup first round: VAKP 0 TKT 6
Petteri Tyni’s Tampere football videos are a real poke in the eye for people who moan about new media killing journalism. The local press in Tampere doesn’t have the capability or will to provide this kind of coverage of lower division football, and Petteri fills the gap by filming Ilves, TPV and occasionally TamU matches [...]
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 now [...]
Continue reading...Tervakosken PATO 2 Tampereen Kisatoverit 2 (PATO win 3-1 on penalties)
Thursday, May 7, 2009
“Tervakoski! So you’re going to Puuhamaa, then?” my girlfriend asked when I told her how I intended to spend that the evening. Not exactly. The town is famous for Puuhamaa (“Finland’s most diverse theme park“), and mighty exciting it looked too, as well as a paper mill and lastly, a rather physical football team. NFN’s journey [...]
Continue reading...Those Jari Viita people
Monday, May 4, 2009
Ari Hjelm has been with Tampere United throughout their ten-year history, first as an assistant to Harri Kampman and then from 2001 as head coach. He has won three championships, and it is a common refrain in Tampere that he is primarily responsible for the club’s success, and that he is the best coach in [...]
Continue reading...Wapputime preview part 1: Veikkausliiga Round 4
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Tampere United v VPS, Saturday 6:30pm The first TamU home game after CEO Sami Salonen and Sporting Director Jarkko Wiss left the club promises to be an eventful affair. Fans are unhappy at the way both men have been treated, as Wiss was not just a Sporting Director but TamU’s most successful captain of all time. [...]
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 describe much of what went on, so for now the [...]
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. His innately scruffy [...]
Continue reading...Veikkausliiga 2009 round one: The Harkimo-Håkans appreciation preview
Friday, April 17, 2009
As this opening round of Veikkausliiga has been decimated by pitch related postponements, this preview is dedicated to the two men who have actually done quite a lot to get playable pitches in Finland. Harkimo was instrumental in the construction of Finnair Stadium in Töölö, before selling his stake in the ground andwinding up Jokerit’s [...]
Continue reading...Yrjö Asikainen, 1928-2008
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Yrjö Asikainen was a strong, bustling forward who scored vital goals for Finland in their first important victories after the Second World War. A 2-0 win over Denmark in Copenhagen on 11 September 1949 was greeted with gleeful disbelief back home in Finland, where Asikainen got a memorable reception in his adopted home town of [...]
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Friday, February 19, 2010
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