HJK-Inter preview
HJK entertain Inter tonight in one of the most highly anticipated matches of the current campaign. Inter, second in the table, chase the hosts by seven points with a game in hand, so if the Turku team manage a victory in Helsinki all the talk of handing the Veikkausliiga trophy to HJK may just turn...
HJK-Inter preview
HJK entertain Inter tonight in one of the most highly anticipated matches of the current campaign. Inter, second in the table, chase the hosts by seven points with a game in hand, so if the Turku team manage a victory in Helsinki all the talk of handing the Veikkausliiga trophy to HJK may just turn...
HJK-JJK preview
The surprise Veikkausliiga leaders from Jyväskylä take on the reigning champions at the Sonera Stadium at 6:30pm tonight. JJK remain unbeaten with sixteen points after six matches while HJK sit third with twelve points. Therefore, even with a limited grasp of arithmetic, the hosts are in for a match they need to win. JJK’s start...
HJK-FF Jaro preview
HJK host Jaro at the Sonera Stadium tonight at 6:30pm. The home side have recorded three straight victories (KuPS (H), Inter (H), VPS (A)) after the opening day defeat against TPS in Turku and sit second in the table, a point behind JJK. Jaro have also recovered from their dodgy start to the season, that...
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...
Jar Jar Haka And The Phantom Menace – NFN’s Veikkausliiga Preview Part III – The Relegation Candidates
And so we move to the not-so-business end of the table, the rear. It promises to be quite a battle, since so many clubs have been forced to cut costs amid financial turmoil. You can find the rest of NFN’s Veikkausliiga preview here, just click on the links. Part I – Part II –...
Who Gets Gunned Down By The Financial Death Star – NFN’s Veikkausliiga Preview, Part II – The Mid-Table
The mid-table more than any other part of the league is defined by the financial nuclear winter and different ways to approach it. Let the carnage ensue! You can find the rest of NFN’s Veikkausliiga preview here, just click on the links. Part I – Part III – Part IV. Struggling beneath the far reaches...
There Will Be No Return Of The Jedi In This Universe – NFN’s Veikkausliiga Preview 2011
It’s time for the annual NFN Veikkausliiga preview. As with last year, a three part preview, starting with the title contenders. Want to guess who we think will win? You can find the rest of NFN’s Veikkausliiga preview here, just click on the links. Part II – Part III – Part IV. On with...
Will Finland Fall Victim To Mixu Paatelainen’s Stand Up Comedy Routine?
So far in his managerial career, Mixu Paatelainen has employed a tested and true stage performers mentality: always leave on a high note. How will that affect his tenure with Finland? Let’s get one thing out of the way. Hiring Mixu Paatelainen was the only thing Palloliitto could do. He’s Finnish, relatively successful and Petri...
White Girls Can’t Dance
Let’s not get carried away by the shock of the match-fixing scandal. A cap on foreign players in Veikkausliiga isn’t the answer. When Timo Soini coined his ever more popular catch phrase ”Missä EU, siellä ongelma” (Where there is the EU, there are problems), he created a brilliant out on any tough question regarding his...
Veikkausliiga Transfer Merry-go-round: Inter and MIFK keep busy, while Korkeakunnas builds his Helsinki colony at MyPa
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...
Veikkausliiga Transfer Merry-go-round: HJK already look ready for the new season, while near-relegated JJK are thinking too big for their own good
When you go for a Sunday stroll around the Finnish transfer circus at this time of the year, in this bleak financial and meteorological climate, you would expect to see a sad merry-go-round sitting stranded in the cold, transfer ponies buried under five feet of snow, emptiness echoing in the absence of laughter, shrieks of...
