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...
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...
Don’t Fear The Football Taliban
Every spare moment I’ve had in between work I’ve been thinking about the Finnish Cup final. Not the game itself, but the event. I kept running into the same problem. Yes, it has history and tradition. And yes, football is football and that should suffice. But every time I thought of these things I felt...
Who Shall Get the Last Laugh? A Look At Some Predictions
Do you like self-congradulatory columns with a hint of smugness? In that case, you’re in luck! In a tradition stretching back to never before, let’s take a look at the predictions made in our Veikkausliiga preview package in April and see where we are. How has the season unfolded? Who gets the last laugh? One...
The R Word
Finnish is a great language for cursing. My favourite curse word in Finnish football is actually Norwegian. I don’t know who the poor soul was who was first to utter the words, but the phrase “We will be Finland’s Rosenborg” has to be equated to the rudest possible insult imaginable. You know how TV shows...
TPV 3 Klubi 04 2: ressies out!
One of the many loveable idiosyncrasies of Finnish football is the relaxed attitude to registrations taken by the authorities here. Players can switch clubs with bewildering regularity, via an intricate network of co-operation agreements between clubs at all levels of the game. Promising young defender Johannes Mononen has played for all three of Tampere’s top...
Injury-ridden TPS out to avoid upset against Port Talbot Town
TPS will host Welsh side Port Talbot Town in their opening fixture of the UEFA Europa League first qualification round tie. Having recently played four games in nine days, TPS are having injury problems. In Wednesday’s pre-game press conference, head coach Marko Rajamäki revealed five players are ruled out of Thursday’s game. Captain Jarno Heinikangas...
