The biggest story of the Sixth Round was Tampere United's decision to play their home tie against Jaro at Tammela Stadium, a ground considered by many to be Finland's best. The significance of this is not obvious to those who have not been closely following Tampere football in recent years, so I will recap briefly.

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Inter are not the luckiest team in Veikkausliiga, it has to be said. After losing Patrick Bantamoi to a red card in Sunday's 2-0 defeat to HJK at Pallokenttä (HJK's usual Töölö home having it's new grass rested for the Euro 2009 championships in late August), their second goalkeeper David Moncalves was sent off in the 57th minute at Ratina today after bringing down Tampere United's Aleksei Kangaskolkka and preventing a goalscoring opportunity.

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Inter took their third consecutive derby win in Veikkausliiga, beating TPS 2-0. The big difference to last year was that both teams were bad this time around. Inter had most of the ball possession, but that was pretty much useless, as they could only create one chance. It was enough though, as Timo Furuholm found the net to score his team's second in the 75th minute.

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Maybe one day TPS will come to Tampere and try to play football. They've tried the hump it, lump it, boot the opposition method enough times to know by now that it doesn't work, but against TamU today it was fouling, hoofing and kicking again. In 2007 there was a red card for a player [...] Click to continue reading...

Tampere United v TPS This game will be played in Pirkkala, at PJK's home ground. Although this is a good 15km from Tampere, it is still the closest TamU have come to home in this League Cup campaign, having played their home games in Pori and Seinäjoki so far. This sorry situation is a result of [.. Click to continue reading...

Tampere United v TPS This game will be played in Pirkkala, at PJK's home ground. Although this is a good 15km from Tampere, it is still the closest TamU have come to home in this League Cup campaign, having played their home games in Pori and Seinäjoki so far. This sorry situation is a result of [.. Click to continue reading...

The Finnish football season is starting in less than one month's time, and we are pretty darn excited about it. To celebrate, we would like to tap into our readership's creative energy to succinctly express what Veikkausliiga means to us all. And as the pinnacle of world sporting excellence that it is, Veikkausliiga means a [. Click to continue reading...

The Finnish football season is starting in less than one month's time, and we are pretty darn excited about it. To celebrate, we would like to tap into our readership's creative energy to succinctly express what Veikkausliiga means to us all. And as the pinnacle of world sporting excellence that it is, Veikkausliiga means a [. Click to continue reading...