They now sell beer at Tammela!

Yes folks, it’s true: there is a pay bar at Tammela Stadium now, for Ilves matches at least. I was so happy I bought a season ticket, but the woman refused to give a discount for the two games I’d missed. She surely knew the attraction of beer and football at Finland’s best ground.
Kakkonen has [...]

Veikkausliiga Round Eight

Lahti 1 Jaro 2
HJK 1 MyPa 1
TPS 0 IFK Mariehamn 0
KTP 0 Honka 0
KuPS 1 Inter 1
Click scores for highlights
I’ll talk about Haka and TamU later on, but a fairly uninspiring last round of fixtures before the Euro-break so far.

Veikkausliiga Round Eight preview

FC Lahti v FF Jaro
Lahti are missing Vanninen, while Jaro will be without Kullström, Je. Portin, Junnila, Koivisto, Svanbäck and Wargh. With Jaro in awful form following two 4-0 defeats, it should be a home win. But then this is Lahti…

TPS v IFK Mariehamn
TPS are without Valakari, Heinikangas, Ääritalo, Cleaver and Sarajärvi, and IFK will [...]

HK05: Hi-NRG tifo

Veikkausliiga round seven

Honka 1 HJK 0
MyPa 2 Lahti 0
TamU 4 KTP 2
Jaro 0 Haka 4
RoPS 1 TPS 0
IFK M 1 KuPS 1
Inter 2 VPS 0
Click score for highlights.
TamU played Daniel, and they won. Of course they did. Awful defending from KTP, and from TamU, with Obinna Okafor causing a lot of problems for Kuoppala and Lindström. They [...]

Baxter on Veikkausliiga

Stuart Baxter’s been at a lot of games recently. He was at Haka-Tamu, with Arto Nyberg and Timo Walden, and he’s been to pretty much every TV game including the HJK-TamU match. Ari Virtanen interviewed him for Nelonen news about his thoughts on Veikkausliiga and Finnish football more generally, and you can watch his report [...]

Veikkausliiga Round Seven preview

TamU v KTP
Sheweleff is the only absentee for TamU, Ikavalko for KTP in this relegation six-pointer. IF this isn’t a home win I’ll be surprised, but not so surprised that the odds on ladbrokes make sense. TamU are awful right now, and so are KTP. Anything could happen, and KTP are under significantly less pressure.
Honka [...]

Blogs

There are a couple of new blogs I’ve been reading recently, and are well worth checking out. First up is Lisäajan Jälkeen, from Nelonen. There’s a great post on TamU’s problems, written by Ari Virtanen. It’s in Finnish.
Then there is Fjordball, the best english language blog about Norwegian football. Lars did a post about Juha [...]

HJK 5 TamU 1

HJK 5 TamU 1
Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.
I have to say that Zico was the problem for TamU yesterday. It was clear to everyone, from the stewards and youth teams to the teenagers selling hot dogs, that Jari Niemi was awful against HJK. He was in midfield when he should have been in the [...]

6th round of Veikkausliiga

FC Lahti - FC Honka 1-0
FC Haka - MyPa 0-3
KooTeePee - Inter 0-2
RoPS - IFK Mariehamn 3-1
TPS - FF Jaro 4-0
VPS - KuPS 2-0
Click links for highlights.
Inter go on undefeated, but a defeat today would have been really something because they played KooTeePee. In addition, KooTeePee had Tamas Gruburovics sent [...]