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It was a night to remember at the Sonera Stadium last Thursday as HJK recorded a historical
victory with a battling performance over the German giants Schalke in the Europa League play-off
first leg. Teemu Pukki scored two fantastic goals to cap a magnificent team performance by the home
side which put the Finns on the threshold of the group stages of the competition.
It is a tedious cliché that Finnish football is small-time and insignificant, but it is
unfortunately also kinda true. Precarious finances and a disinterested public make the professional
game here seem lower profile than, say, crown green bowls in the UK, or cricket in the United
States.
That is a little stark.
English homophobia: uniting Brazilians and Finns Finnish football descended into a bout of
televised homophobia this week. The match between KuPS and HJK featured HJK's Brazilian star
Rafinha testing his language skills on opponent Pexi Oravainen. He was caught on camera unleashing
a torrent of homophobic abuse towards the KuPS.
Charlton Athletic manager Chris Powell confessed he is surprised that the Finnish Football
Association announced that Carl Jenkinson is an Arsenal player. Speaking to News Shopper, the
Englishman revealed that the Addicks met with the Gunners ...
Well, Arsene Wenger certainly meant business when he said that he was going to be active in the
transfer window. Arsenal have started off their summer spending spree, or what fans hope will be a
spending spree anyways, with the signing of Charlton right back Carl Jenkinson for a reported
compensation fee of around 1 million pounds.
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 European politics.