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Galactic Order Has Been Restored – NFN’s Veikkausliiga Preview – Rankings
Did you miss NFN’s three-part Veikkausliiga preview? Don’t worry, you can find it here, just click on the linka. Part I -Part II - Part III. Nordic Football News has once again brought you the most definitive Veikkausliiga preview concievable. Now for the final part, our standings prediction. After much debate and wrangling, NFN Editor Egan Richardson [...]
Continue reading...Veikkausliiga Transfer Merry-go-round: Inter and MIFK keep busy, while Korkeakunnas builds his Helsinki colony at MyPa
Thursday, March 3, 2011
The 2011 Veikkausliiga season kicks-off in two months so let’s not waste any time trying to make up witty introductions to the ever so fascinating world of Veikkausliiga transfer tittle-tattle and instead, mimicking the transfer market behaviour of most Finnish top tier teams, the Merry-go-round is just going to plunge in among the transfers news [...]
Continue reading...Veikkausliiga round 8 preview
Friday, June 4, 2010
The Finnish league has made it all the way to the 8th round, which makes us here at the NFN Ivory Tower quite ready and willing to single out some teams for harsh criticism. We could also carve out the positives out of some teams’ performances, but who wants to read good news anyway?Tweet
Continue reading...Veikkausliiga Power Rankings Week 1
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Janne Oivio continues his skewed coverage of Veikkausliiga following the preview package published last week. It’s ridiculously early to do a power ranking, but I don’t care. Having just completed NFN’s Massive Veikkausliiga Preview I was so delighted with myself that I decided to begin a running feature which will run hopefully every other week. [...]
Continue reading...NFN’s Massive Veikkausliiga Preview Package Part One: The Relegation Candidates
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Since there is no hope for compromise amongst NFN Finnish’s “experts” and Veikkaaja decided not to listen to my infinite wisdom, I’ve decided to use this space to tell everyone how the upcoming Veikkausliiga season will play out. So listen up.Tweet
Continue reading...Random predictions for Veikkausliiga 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
In the run-up to my Massive Season Preview 2010 (to be published very, very soon), I thought I’d start off with the conventional random predictions and pre-emptive awards for the upcoming season. Tweet
Continue reading...Veikkausliiga Transfer Round-up: Experience is the next big thing in Veikkausliiga as Johansson returns to TPS and Kuivasto signs for FC Haka
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The NFN transfer news column returns afresh with a new title and ever improved content. Well that’s at least what evil marketing men and women want you to believe with these kinds of blatant attempts at re-branding. In truth, the Round-up will be exactly as inefficient, lazy and crass as the Weekly was in providing [...]
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...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 [...]
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...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...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, [...]
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