Berat Sadik heading south?

This blog is a long-standing supporter of Berat Sadik, and so we were over several moons when he made his debut for the national team last week. He looks set to move abroad as well, with interest from Palermo, Bielefeld and Larissa making it difficult for Lahti to hang onto him.
His contract expires at the [...]

Eremenko Jr. caught drunk driving

Alexei Eremenko jr. will not be playing against Belarus on Monday after being caught drunk driving in Pietarsaari a week ago. The Finnish FA made the only right decision and put Eremenko aside for the match against Belarus.
That’s ugly enough already, but according to Iltalehti, Eremenko is whining about the situation.  He says he will not play [...]

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 [...]

Baxter’s squad for the Turkey and Belarus games

As I predicted, Berat Sadik is in the squad for the Turkey and Belarus games. I’m possibly too excited about what this might signify. Baxter’s conditions for Litmanen’s continued involvement are surprisingly hard, as he has said that Litmanen will have to play regularly for a club side. The hope among everyone I know is [...]

Stuart Baxter on Arto Nyberg

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 [...]