Finnish Cup, the whole schedule

R	Date	+2 gmt	Venue	Home	Away	FT	Hc
6	08.04.11	18.00	Yläkenttä	FC Inter	FC Haka	0-0 Haka pen.	-1
6	09.04.11	18.15	Vehka	ViPa	FF Jaro	1-4	2,25
6	09.04.11	13.00	ISS	PK-35 (res)	FC Hämeenlinna	2-0	1,5
6	09.04.11	14.00	tn	JIPPO	JBK	0-0 Jippo pen.	-1
6	09.04.11	20.00	Ogeli	Gnistan	Sudet	3-0	-1
6	09.04.11	15.30	Kipparihalli	GBK	MaPS	1-1 GBK ET	-0,75
6	10.04.11	13.30	Braku	LPS	IFK Mariehamn	0-8	2
6	10.04.11	15.00	Karjaa	EIF	KuPS	0-2	2?
6	10.04.11	13.30	Wallsport	SJK	KooTeePee	3-0	0?
6	12.04.11	18.30	Yläkenttä	TPS	VPS	1-1 TPS pen	-0,75
6	13.04.11	17:00	Lehtomäki	MYPA	AC Oulu	2-0	-1?
6	13.04.11	17.00	Kisapuisto	FC Lahti	FC Espoo	2-1	-0,75?
7	15.04.11	17.30	PK-35 (res)	JJK			2,25?
7	16.04.11	15.30	Gnistan	KuPS			2,25?
7	15.04.11	18.00	MIFK	Honka			0,25?
7			SJK	HJK			1,25?
7			MyPa/Oulu	Jaro
7			Lahti/Espoo	TPS/VPS
7			GBK	Haka			1,5?
7			JiPPO	TamU			1?
8	12.05.11
8	12.05.11
8	12.05.11
8	12.05.11
9	26.05.11
9	26.05.11
10	24.09.11

Finnish Cup 2011 first round kicked off!

The first rounds are just jokes which no one laughs at. There is really no point in seeing/playing/organizing a match between two teams from the 7th division in the heart of the winter when they even have not enough licensed players and no training sessions in the bag.

I do not mind though and will see a match or two today in the comfort of Tali indoor Arena. Not only for football but also because as it is an excellent meeting place with footballing people. A coffee and a frendly chat, and in the background the pub teams are fighting their socks off - if they remembered how to put them on that is.

Edit: Saw HDS (3rd div) to beat a 6th div team about 5-1, can not be quite sure as the scoreboard was not on and I arrived a bit late.

Laters, there is a long way to go to the Cup final!

Today I will give up my own football shoes and my ball

There is a guy doing charity for the kids in Malawi here at Helsinki Cup 2010, he collects balls and other football gear for them and then transports the whole lot into Africa.

It is pretty much about time for me to give up outdoors football - atually I have done it already years ago - and get rid of all unnecessary stuff for kids who need it more than I do.

These fellows in the pictures are from The Shirt - a project to raise awareness for the refugee situation in Africa - but it will do nicely to show that there are always people in bigger need than us, and I am not talking about only football here.

Good bye shoes, hope you find a good home.

European odds

Some of you have been wondering why I never talk about straight European 1x2-odds but always about the asian handicap. There are a couple of reasons for that.

• Asian bookies with hc odds have a smaller margin than the European ones, thus odds for the exactly same occasion is a bit more value with asian odds.
• Asian bookmakers let you stake. Not always as much as you might want in the lower leagues, but compared to silly European bookies considerably more. Say a hundred times more.
• The bank rolls faster with asian handicap as the outcomes are more likely to happen than when fishing for big underdog odds. Portsmouth +1.5  @ 2.00 is much more likely to happen away  at White Hart Lane than Portsmouth to win @ 10.00, right?
• Euro bookies do not like me.
• I do not like them.

My customers are welcome to discuss and ask for price limits for European bookies as well, but personally for me it is just a waste of time to check the odds at them because the good-looking prices are not for me, and I do want to fool you with publishing odds and picks that are not available in the real life for real people. My examples are from Sbobet.

Allsvenskan videos

In case you have not noticed yet Nordic Football News have all the action covered from Allsvenskan.

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