Olen ennenkin havainnut kannattamani jalkapallojoukkueen, West Hamin, mainostavan virallisilla nettisivuillaan nyrkkeilyä. Nyrkkeilyllä ei ole mitään tekemistä jalkapalloilun kanssa. Tähän asti olen kuitannut sen oletuksella, että taitavat pugilistit olla joukkueen julkkiskannattajia. Nyt kuitenkin särähti. West Ham mainostaa Dereck Chisoran, tuon kelvottomuuden, seuraavaa ottelua.
Chisora tunnetaan paitsi siitä, että hän käyttäytyi ala-arvoisesti ottelussa Robert Heleniusta vastaan, myös siitä, että hänen olisi pitänyt voittaa tuo ottelu. Teen tässä nyt asian selväksi: vaikka Helenius voitti ottelun vääryydellä, vaikkakin olkapää mäsänä, niin en hyväksy sitä, että mikään edustamani yhteisö antaa palstatilaa sellaisille yhteisöille tai yksilöille, jotka eivät käyttäydy kunnioittavasti toisia ihmisiä kohtaan ja jotka pelaavat epäreilusti. En hyväksy tätä siinäkään tapauksessa, jossa tämä mainostettu taho sattuisi edustamaan samaa kansakuntaa - brittejä - tai asuisi samassa kaupungissa kuin kannattamani joukkue, joka muuten sattuu olemaan maailmanlaajuinen yhteisö. Siihen kuuluu vain hyvää ja reilua peliä kannattavia.
Linkki artikkeliini Helenius-Chisora-ottelusta on alla:
http://perukangas.blogspot.fi/2011/12/helenius-lopetti-nyrkkeilyn.html
I have noticed before that West Ham advertises boxing even if boxing has nothing to do with football. So far I have thought the reason to be that these boxers are presumably West Ham supporters. Now have West Ham made a mistake by advertising the bout of Dereck Chisora, that disgrace.
Chisora is known in Finland by behaving unsportsmanly, manly and humanly in the fight against Robert Helenius. Yes, he should have nicked it even if the poor Helenius was clinically unfit to fight. I disapprove that a community I endorse happens to give publicity to people or communities that do not respect other people or communities or those who playing unfair. Even if these people or communities happened to be British, as my team is a global community consisting of people loving good and fair game.
The link to the above mentioned Chisoragate is below:
http://www.whufc.com/articles/20120625/chisora-predicting-big-win_2236884_2819728
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25.6.2012
24.4.2012
No donkey shit for me
Erosin taas yhdestä kannattamani jalkapallojoukkueen, West Hamin Facebook-faniryhmästä. Syynä oli oman joukkueen pelaajan haukkuminen aasiksi.
Ymmärrän, että fanit turhautuvat jos oma hyökkääjä ei osuisi edes kiikarikiväärillä ladonoveen. Omia ei kuitenkaan pidä haukkua vaan kannustaa.
Mainitussa ryhmässä muisteltiin kaihoisasti loukkaantumisten takia nuorena lopettamaan joutunuta Dean Ashtonia. Hän ei olisi varmaankaan vetänyt samanlaisia hehtaarihuteja kuin Carlton Cole. Myönnän, että Cole voi toisinaan olla turhauttava pelaaja seurata, kaikista hyvistä ominaisuuksistaan - nopeus ja atleettisuus - huolimatta. Omat pelaajat eivät kuitenkaan ole aaseja.
Tummaihoisia ihmisiä on toisinaan nimiltety aaseiksi. Jos omien haukkuminen vielä yhdistyy rasismiin, tämä on erityisen raskauttavaa. Pää pystyyn Carlton!
I resigned from a West Ham supporters' Facebook site due to swerving to our players. I think that our own ones should always be supported, although frustrating it might be that we do exactly have no Messis and Ronaldos of this world. Especially negative is to call our players as donkeys, as this stamp has been specially reserved for colored people. When negativity meets racism, this is disgusting. I for one miss Dean Ashton, there was just one Deano, but there's only one Carlton as well. And he's no donkey.
Ymmärrän, että fanit turhautuvat jos oma hyökkääjä ei osuisi edes kiikarikiväärillä ladonoveen. Omia ei kuitenkaan pidä haukkua vaan kannustaa.
Mainitussa ryhmässä muisteltiin kaihoisasti loukkaantumisten takia nuorena lopettamaan joutunuta Dean Ashtonia. Hän ei olisi varmaankaan vetänyt samanlaisia hehtaarihuteja kuin Carlton Cole. Myönnän, että Cole voi toisinaan olla turhauttava pelaaja seurata, kaikista hyvistä ominaisuuksistaan - nopeus ja atleettisuus - huolimatta. Omat pelaajat eivät kuitenkaan ole aaseja.
Tummaihoisia ihmisiä on toisinaan nimiltety aaseiksi. Jos omien haukkuminen vielä yhdistyy rasismiin, tämä on erityisen raskauttavaa. Pää pystyyn Carlton!
I resigned from a West Ham supporters' Facebook site due to swerving to our players. I think that our own ones should always be supported, although frustrating it might be that we do exactly have no Messis and Ronaldos of this world. Especially negative is to call our players as donkeys, as this stamp has been specially reserved for colored people. When negativity meets racism, this is disgusting. I for one miss Dean Ashton, there was just one Deano, but there's only one Carlton as well. And he's no donkey.
7.4.2012
Can clubs like West Ham, Spurs and Newcastle ever eat from the top table?
This article was originally published in the now late sports portal Sportingo in Nov 2007. I managed to trace it, however, and save it from posteriority.
By Michael Perukangas, on 23rd November 2007, 10:20 UTC
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The almost complete downturn of Leeds United and problems at Newcastle United are the most telling examples of what happens when a cat mistakenly thinks he's a lion. The Premier League club has become the favourite pastime of foreign bankrollers and it's all getting a bit much. It wasn't that long ago that Chelsea were on the brink of bankruptcy, and Portsmouth were a branch of the French foreign legion.
Consecutive league titles are not enough, as demonstrated by the fate of Jose 'Moan' Mourinho. Martin Jol led Tottenham to consecutive fifth-place finishes, far better than any of his successors had achieved. His sacking is a telling example that patience rarely matches ambition among football club boards assembled by embarrassingly rich businessmen. Even with Juande Ramos at the helm at Spurs, the club will have to endure another year of frustrating reconstruction work.
The Spurs board should look at what has happened at Liverpool, a club spoiled by winning everything in the eighties but hardly anything since. Gerard Houllier had a promising start, bringing in some fresh French blood with him and grooming Jamie Carragher and Stevie Gerrard. His masterstroke was perhaps acquiring the semi-unknown quantity in Sami Hyypiä.
Seeking silverware in various Cup competitions is all well and good and Houllier managed the UEFA and FA versions but the Premier League is what really counts. In came Rafa Benitez with a 'continental' reputation and he brought in continental (mostly Spanish) players. Yes, he won the Champions League but the coveted title is still elusive.
My club, West Ham, are justifiably proud of their Academy, which has produced some of the most talented English players in the last few years. Perennial under-achievers, as soon as one of our youngsters starts to flourish, he is sold, either because of the huge offer on the table or the 'ambition' of the player. Now most effectively bankrolled by an Icelandic egg, the future looks bright for the faithful Irons. Solid mid-table security would secure sweet dreams for the Hammers faithful.
In the United States, the shadow of the five most prestigious symphony orchestras, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland - looms large over other orchestras. Despite huge television revenues in the Promised Land, the gulf between Premier League and Championship is said to have diminished recently, perhaps jugded by the relative success of Wigan and Reading in recent seasons.
As the label 'big' is a handy marketing tool, the big ones tend to develop empires around them. In England, the 'Big Four' - Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool - have developed into multi-national corporations, and to break the duck, you have to be a duck. The best the other clubs can expect is a fifth-place finish.
If one Premier League season represents a battle, then the football industry that is called the Premier League is a war, and winning a battle is much easier than winning the war.
By Michael Perukangas, on 23rd November 2007, 10:20 UTC
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Sport
The almost complete downturn of Leeds United and problems at Newcastle United are the most telling examples of what happens when a cat mistakenly thinks he's a lion. The Premier League club has become the favourite pastime of foreign bankrollers and it's all getting a bit much. It wasn't that long ago that Chelsea were on the brink of bankruptcy, and Portsmouth were a branch of the French foreign legion.
Consecutive league titles are not enough, as demonstrated by the fate of Jose 'Moan' Mourinho. Martin Jol led Tottenham to consecutive fifth-place finishes, far better than any of his successors had achieved. His sacking is a telling example that patience rarely matches ambition among football club boards assembled by embarrassingly rich businessmen. Even with Juande Ramos at the helm at Spurs, the club will have to endure another year of frustrating reconstruction work.
The Spurs board should look at what has happened at Liverpool, a club spoiled by winning everything in the eighties but hardly anything since. Gerard Houllier had a promising start, bringing in some fresh French blood with him and grooming Jamie Carragher and Stevie Gerrard. His masterstroke was perhaps acquiring the semi-unknown quantity in Sami Hyypiä.
Seeking silverware in various Cup competitions is all well and good and Houllier managed the UEFA and FA versions but the Premier League is what really counts. In came Rafa Benitez with a 'continental' reputation and he brought in continental (mostly Spanish) players. Yes, he won the Champions League but the coveted title is still elusive.
My club, West Ham, are justifiably proud of their Academy, which has produced some of the most talented English players in the last few years. Perennial under-achievers, as soon as one of our youngsters starts to flourish, he is sold, either because of the huge offer on the table or the 'ambition' of the player. Now most effectively bankrolled by an Icelandic egg, the future looks bright for the faithful Irons. Solid mid-table security would secure sweet dreams for the Hammers faithful.
In the United States, the shadow of the five most prestigious symphony orchestras, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland - looms large over other orchestras. Despite huge television revenues in the Promised Land, the gulf between Premier League and Championship is said to have diminished recently, perhaps jugded by the relative success of Wigan and Reading in recent seasons.
As the label 'big' is a handy marketing tool, the big ones tend to develop empires around them. In England, the 'Big Four' - Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool - have developed into multi-national corporations, and to break the duck, you have to be a duck. The best the other clubs can expect is a fifth-place finish.
If one Premier League season represents a battle, then the football industry that is called the Premier League is a war, and winning a battle is much easier than winning the war.
31.3.2012
Should the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal be depending on foreign talent?
Allaoleva artikkelini julkaistiin joulukuussa 2007 Sportingo-urheiluportaalissa, joka on nyttemmin jo kuollut ja kuopattu.
My article below was released in the late sports portal Sportingo in Dec 2007.
By Michael Perukangas, on 11th December 2007, 08:05 UTC
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When Celtic won the European Cup in 1967, the whole team was made up of home-grown boys. Now a club like Arsenal can field the whole starting XI with overseas imports.
As some traditionalists have suggested, there should be a limit to the amount of foreign players in British clubs, not only for nostalgic reasons but for the sake of the English game and the national side, whose recent performances give rise to scepticism about the level of performance.
I remember the old days before colour TV and then Sky when football was literally a black-and-white, long-ball and muddy-pitch sport. Now it has worldwide audiences.
Of course old rivalries still exist but clubs are now worldwide entertainment corporations. I am an active member of the Scandinavian Hammers and we are as loyal as any fan living near the Boleyn.
For a modern spectator, it is impossible to think Manchester United without Eric Cantona and Peter Schmeichel, Arsenal without Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp and Chelsea without Gianfranco Zola. They are trademark players and hall-of-fame legends for their respective clubs, just as Stanley Matthews was for Blackpool, Tom Finney for Preston or Bobby Moore for West Ham.
Arsene Wenger has transformed the boring-labelled Arsenal into a magnificent, title-winning entertainment machine and he has also introduced continental flair into English football, and such influences can only be good for the English game.
If a 'non-English' rule is to be introduced into the English game, then the price tags of the English players have to be reduced. You can hardly buy the left peg of a Championship non-entity these days and for a non-English supporter of an English club, this is a no-brainer. And anyway, why should different rules apply to football corporations than for any other corporations in the days of freedom of movement for workers?
My article below was released in the late sports portal Sportingo in Dec 2007.
By Michael Perukangas, on 11th December 2007, 08:05 UTC
Views 61 Comments 0
When Celtic won the European Cup in 1967, the whole team was made up of home-grown boys. Now a club like Arsenal can field the whole starting XI with overseas imports.
As some traditionalists have suggested, there should be a limit to the amount of foreign players in British clubs, not only for nostalgic reasons but for the sake of the English game and the national side, whose recent performances give rise to scepticism about the level of performance.
I remember the old days before colour TV and then Sky when football was literally a black-and-white, long-ball and muddy-pitch sport. Now it has worldwide audiences.
Of course old rivalries still exist but clubs are now worldwide entertainment corporations. I am an active member of the Scandinavian Hammers and we are as loyal as any fan living near the Boleyn.
For a modern spectator, it is impossible to think Manchester United without Eric Cantona and Peter Schmeichel, Arsenal without Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp and Chelsea without Gianfranco Zola. They are trademark players and hall-of-fame legends for their respective clubs, just as Stanley Matthews was for Blackpool, Tom Finney for Preston or Bobby Moore for West Ham.
Arsene Wenger has transformed the boring-labelled Arsenal into a magnificent, title-winning entertainment machine and he has also introduced continental flair into English football, and such influences can only be good for the English game.
If a 'non-English' rule is to be introduced into the English game, then the price tags of the English players have to be reduced. You can hardly buy the left peg of a Championship non-entity these days and for a non-English supporter of an English club, this is a no-brainer. And anyway, why should different rules apply to football corporations than for any other corporations in the days of freedom of movement for workers?
31.8.2011
Siirtoikkuna sulkeutuu/Transfer window is closing down
Jokakesäiset futareiden siirtomarkkinat loppuvat kuun vaihteessa. Löytääkö Miklu Forssell uuden työnantajan? Meneekö Sneijder Manuun ja käykö Arsenal ostoksilla? Ostaako Schalke Pukin? Näihin ja moniin muihin mielenkiintoisiin kysymyksiin löydät vastauksen seuraamalla tätä sivua!
Footballers' transfer market is closing down. Will Mikael Forssell find another club? Is Sneijder goin' to Man United and what is Arsenal doin? Will Schalke buy Pukki? Watch this space!
Papa Boupa Diop: AEK Athens (free) -> West Ham
Davide Santon: Inter Milan -> Newcastle
Ireneusz Jelen: Auxerre -> Lille
Elias: Atletico Madrid -> Sporting Lissabon
Mohamed Bangura: AIK -> Glasgow Celtic
Albert Crusat: Almeria -> Wigan
Gerhard Tremmel: Red Bull Salzburg (free) -> Swansea
Park Chu-Young: AS Monaco -> Arsenal
Sebastian Coates: Nacional -> Liverpool
Armand Traore: Arsenal -> QPR
Diego Lugano: Fenerbahce -> PSG
Mehdi Carcela: Standard Liege -> Antzhi Mahatskala
Gabriel Torje: Dinamo Bukuresti -> Udinese
Victor Ruiz: Napoli -> Valencia
Christian Poulsen: Liverpool -> Evian
Mouhamadou Dabo: Sevilla -> Olympique Lyonnais
Rob Elliott: Charlton -> Newcastle
Daniel Niculae, Thomas Magnani: AS Monaco -> Nancy
Cheickh Toure: Fulham -> Lorient
David Trezeguet: Hercules -> Bani Yas
Rajiv van la Parra: Caen -> Heerenveen
Riku Riski: Widzew Lodz -> Örebro (loan)
Eljero Elia: HSV -> Juventus
Daniel Royer: SV Ried -> Hannover 96
Joe Cole: Liverpool -> Lille (loan)
Simon Kjaer: Wolfsburg -> AS Roma (loan)
Aleksander Hleb: Barcelona -> Wolfsburg (loan)
Max Gradel: Leeds -> St. Etienne
Scott Parker: West Ham -> Tottenham
Massimo Oddo: AC Milan -> Lecce (loan)
Andre Santos: Fenerbahce -> Arsenal
Maximiliano Pereira: River Plate -> Udinese
Daniele Padelli: Sampdoria -> Udinese (loan)
Pawel Kieszek: Porto -> Roda Kerkrade (loan)
Pedro Leon: Real Madrid -> Getafe (loan)
Per Mertesacker: Werder Bremen -> Arsenal
Michael Bradley: Borussia Mönchengladbach -> Chievo Verona
Mauro Zarate: Lazio -> Inter Milan (loan)
John Guidetti: Manchester City -> Feyenoord (loan)
Miralem Pjanic: Olympique Lyonnais -> AS Roma
David Bentley: Tottenham -> West Ham (loan)
Enda Stevens: Shamrock Rovers -> Aston Villa
Zdenek Grygera: Juventus -> Fulham
Gilles Sunu: Arsenal -> Lorient
Raul Bravo: Numancia -> Rayo Vallecano
Josip Simunic: Hoffenheim -> Dinamo Zagreb
Fernando Gago: Real Madrid -> AS Roma
Ignacio David Fideleff: Newell's Old Boys -> Napoli
Andrea Caracciolo: Brescia -> Genoa (loan)
Rui Sampaio: Beira Mar -> Cagliari
Ivo Ilicevic: Kaiserslautern -> HSV
Sergio Floccari: Lazio -> AS Parma (loan)
Youssouf Hadji: Nancy -> Rennes
Joel Campbell: Arsenal -> Lorient (loan)
Owen Hargreaves: free -> Manchester City
Peter Crouch: Tottenham -> Stoke
Teemu Pukki: HJK -> Schalke
O'Brian Woodbine: VPS -> HJK
Yossi Benayoun: Chelsea -> Arsenal (loan)
Mikel Arteta: Everton -> Arsenal
Shefki Kuqi: Newcastle -> Oldham
Craig Bellamy: Manchester City (loaned to Cardiff) -> Liverpool
Raul Meireles: Liverpool -> Chelsea
Niklas Bendtner: Arsenal -> Sunderland
Alan Hutton, Jermaine Jenas: Tottenham -> Aston Villa
Bryan Ruiz: Twente -> Fulham
Orlando Sa: free -> Fulham
Anton Ferdinand: Sunderland -> QPR
Royston Drenthe: Real Madrid -> Everton (loan)
Jermaine Beckford: Everton -> Leicester
Cameron Jerome: Birmingham -> Stoke
Scott Dann: Birmingham -> Blackburn
Marek Cech: West Bromwich -> Trabzonspor
Gueida Fofana: Le Havre -> Olympique Lyonnais
Dusko Tosic: Red Star Belgrad -> Real Betis
Romaric: Sevilla -> Espanyol
Luis Garcia: Espanyol -> Real Zaragoza
Wilson Palacios: Tottenham -> Stoke
Shaun Wright-Phillips: Manchester City -> QPR
David N'Gog: Liverpool -> Bolton
Gael Kakuta: Chelsea -> Bolton (loan)
Santiago Silva: Velez Sarsfeld -> Fiorentina
Guy Demel: HSV -> West Ham
Antonio Nocerino: Palermo -> AC Milan
Denis Stracqualursi: Tigres -> Everton (loan)
Darnel Situ: Lens -> Swansea
Federico Bessone: Swansea
Pablo Ibanez: West Bromwich -> Birmingham
Helder Postiga: Sporting Lissabon -> Real Zaragoza
Jos Hooiveld: Glasgow Celtic -> Southampton
Jordan Slew: Sheffield United -> Blackburn
Jason Puncheon: Southampton -> QPR
Niko Perera, Lassi Luoto: FC Espoo -> Valkeakosken Haka
William "Dema" di Mattia: PoPa -> Valkeakosken Haka
Roope Riski: Cesena -> TPS (loan)
David Degen: Liverpool -> released
Shaun Maloney: Glasgow Celtic -> Wigan
Patrick van Aanholt: Chelsea -> Wigan (loan)
Yakubu: Everton (loaned to Leicester) -> Blackburn
Henri Lansbury: Arsenal -> West Ham
El-Hadji Diouf: Blackburn -> released
Vinicius Frasson: Futura -> MyPa
Niko Ikävalko: KooTeePee -> MIFK
Junior Stanislas: West Ham -> Burnley
Edu: Schalke -> Besiktas (loan)
Vicente: Valencia (released) -> Brighton
Reto Ziegler: Juventus -> Fenerbahce (loan)
Albert Riera: Olympiakos -> Galatasaray
Rafik Halliche: Fulham -> Swansea (loan)
Federico Bessone: Leeds -> Swansea
Craig Bellamy: Manchester City (loaned to Cardiff) -> Liverpool
Pablo Orbaiz: Athletic Bilbao -> Olympiakos (loan)
Mauro Zarate: Lazio -> Inter Milan (loan)
Pizzi: Sporting Braga -> Atletico Madrid
Elias: Atletico Madrid -> Sporting Lissabon
Ikechukwu Uche: Real Zaragoza -> Granada (loan)
Moises Hurtado: Espanyol -> Granada (loan)
Carlos Martins: Benfica -> Granada (loan)
Franco Jara: Benfica -> Granada (loan)
Mikel Labaka: Real Sociedad -> Granada (loan)
Taufic Guarch: Estudiantes Tecos -> Espanyol
Mikael Forssell: free -> Leeds
Erik Huseklepp: Bari -> Portsmouth
Asamoah Gyan: Sunderland -> Al-Ain (loan)
Mika Väyrynen: Heerenveen (free) -> Leeds
El-Hadji Diouf: Blackburn -> released
Footballers' transfer market is closing down. Will Mikael Forssell find another club? Is Sneijder goin' to Man United and what is Arsenal doin? Will Schalke buy Pukki? Watch this space!
Papa Boupa Diop: AEK Athens (free) -> West Ham
Davide Santon: Inter Milan -> Newcastle
Ireneusz Jelen: Auxerre -> Lille
Elias: Atletico Madrid -> Sporting Lissabon
Mohamed Bangura: AIK -> Glasgow Celtic
Albert Crusat: Almeria -> Wigan
Gerhard Tremmel: Red Bull Salzburg (free) -> Swansea
Park Chu-Young: AS Monaco -> Arsenal
Sebastian Coates: Nacional -> Liverpool
Armand Traore: Arsenal -> QPR
Diego Lugano: Fenerbahce -> PSG
Mehdi Carcela: Standard Liege -> Antzhi Mahatskala
Gabriel Torje: Dinamo Bukuresti -> Udinese
Victor Ruiz: Napoli -> Valencia
Christian Poulsen: Liverpool -> Evian
Mouhamadou Dabo: Sevilla -> Olympique Lyonnais
Rob Elliott: Charlton -> Newcastle
Daniel Niculae, Thomas Magnani: AS Monaco -> Nancy
Cheickh Toure: Fulham -> Lorient
David Trezeguet: Hercules -> Bani Yas
Rajiv van la Parra: Caen -> Heerenveen
Riku Riski: Widzew Lodz -> Örebro (loan)
Eljero Elia: HSV -> Juventus
Daniel Royer: SV Ried -> Hannover 96
Joe Cole: Liverpool -> Lille (loan)
Simon Kjaer: Wolfsburg -> AS Roma (loan)
Aleksander Hleb: Barcelona -> Wolfsburg (loan)
Max Gradel: Leeds -> St. Etienne
Scott Parker: West Ham -> Tottenham
Massimo Oddo: AC Milan -> Lecce (loan)
Andre Santos: Fenerbahce -> Arsenal
Maximiliano Pereira: River Plate -> Udinese
Daniele Padelli: Sampdoria -> Udinese (loan)
Pawel Kieszek: Porto -> Roda Kerkrade (loan)
Pedro Leon: Real Madrid -> Getafe (loan)
Per Mertesacker: Werder Bremen -> Arsenal
Michael Bradley: Borussia Mönchengladbach -> Chievo Verona
Mauro Zarate: Lazio -> Inter Milan (loan)
John Guidetti: Manchester City -> Feyenoord (loan)
Miralem Pjanic: Olympique Lyonnais -> AS Roma
David Bentley: Tottenham -> West Ham (loan)
Enda Stevens: Shamrock Rovers -> Aston Villa
Zdenek Grygera: Juventus -> Fulham
Gilles Sunu: Arsenal -> Lorient
Raul Bravo: Numancia -> Rayo Vallecano
Josip Simunic: Hoffenheim -> Dinamo Zagreb
Fernando Gago: Real Madrid -> AS Roma
Ignacio David Fideleff: Newell's Old Boys -> Napoli
Andrea Caracciolo: Brescia -> Genoa (loan)
Rui Sampaio: Beira Mar -> Cagliari
Ivo Ilicevic: Kaiserslautern -> HSV
Sergio Floccari: Lazio -> AS Parma (loan)
Youssouf Hadji: Nancy -> Rennes
Joel Campbell: Arsenal -> Lorient (loan)
Owen Hargreaves: free -> Manchester City
Peter Crouch: Tottenham -> Stoke
Teemu Pukki: HJK -> Schalke
O'Brian Woodbine: VPS -> HJK
Yossi Benayoun: Chelsea -> Arsenal (loan)
Mikel Arteta: Everton -> Arsenal
Shefki Kuqi: Newcastle -> Oldham
Craig Bellamy: Manchester City (loaned to Cardiff) -> Liverpool
Raul Meireles: Liverpool -> Chelsea
Niklas Bendtner: Arsenal -> Sunderland
Alan Hutton, Jermaine Jenas: Tottenham -> Aston Villa
Bryan Ruiz: Twente -> Fulham
Orlando Sa: free -> Fulham
Anton Ferdinand: Sunderland -> QPR
Royston Drenthe: Real Madrid -> Everton (loan)
Jermaine Beckford: Everton -> Leicester
Cameron Jerome: Birmingham -> Stoke
Scott Dann: Birmingham -> Blackburn
Marek Cech: West Bromwich -> Trabzonspor
Gueida Fofana: Le Havre -> Olympique Lyonnais
Dusko Tosic: Red Star Belgrad -> Real Betis
Romaric: Sevilla -> Espanyol
Luis Garcia: Espanyol -> Real Zaragoza
Wilson Palacios: Tottenham -> Stoke
Shaun Wright-Phillips: Manchester City -> QPR
David N'Gog: Liverpool -> Bolton
Gael Kakuta: Chelsea -> Bolton (loan)
Santiago Silva: Velez Sarsfeld -> Fiorentina
Guy Demel: HSV -> West Ham
Antonio Nocerino: Palermo -> AC Milan
Denis Stracqualursi: Tigres -> Everton (loan)
Darnel Situ: Lens -> Swansea
Federico Bessone: Swansea
Pablo Ibanez: West Bromwich -> Birmingham
Helder Postiga: Sporting Lissabon -> Real Zaragoza
Jos Hooiveld: Glasgow Celtic -> Southampton
Jordan Slew: Sheffield United -> Blackburn
Jason Puncheon: Southampton -> QPR
Niko Perera, Lassi Luoto: FC Espoo -> Valkeakosken Haka
William "Dema" di Mattia: PoPa -> Valkeakosken Haka
Roope Riski: Cesena -> TPS (loan)
David Degen: Liverpool -> released
Shaun Maloney: Glasgow Celtic -> Wigan
Patrick van Aanholt: Chelsea -> Wigan (loan)
Yakubu: Everton (loaned to Leicester) -> Blackburn
Henri Lansbury: Arsenal -> West Ham
El-Hadji Diouf: Blackburn -> released
Vinicius Frasson: Futura -> MyPa
Niko Ikävalko: KooTeePee -> MIFK
Junior Stanislas: West Ham -> Burnley
Edu: Schalke -> Besiktas (loan)
Vicente: Valencia (released) -> Brighton
Reto Ziegler: Juventus -> Fenerbahce (loan)
Albert Riera: Olympiakos -> Galatasaray
Rafik Halliche: Fulham -> Swansea (loan)
Federico Bessone: Leeds -> Swansea
Craig Bellamy: Manchester City (loaned to Cardiff) -> Liverpool
Pablo Orbaiz: Athletic Bilbao -> Olympiakos (loan)
Mauro Zarate: Lazio -> Inter Milan (loan)
Pizzi: Sporting Braga -> Atletico Madrid
Elias: Atletico Madrid -> Sporting Lissabon
Ikechukwu Uche: Real Zaragoza -> Granada (loan)
Moises Hurtado: Espanyol -> Granada (loan)
Carlos Martins: Benfica -> Granada (loan)
Franco Jara: Benfica -> Granada (loan)
Mikel Labaka: Real Sociedad -> Granada (loan)
Taufic Guarch: Estudiantes Tecos -> Espanyol
Mikael Forssell: free -> Leeds
Erik Huseklepp: Bari -> Portsmouth
Asamoah Gyan: Sunderland -> Al-Ain (loan)
Mika Väyrynen: Heerenveen (free) -> Leeds
El-Hadji Diouf: Blackburn -> released
2.8.2007
Michael Perukangas in "brief"
PERSONAL INFORMATION
I was born in the year 1971 in a town nearby Helsinki, called Vantaa, although not with that name at that very time. Vantaa was still quite a peripheral suburban area of Helsinki, now it is a rapidly growing city of some 190 000 inhabitants. Having lived in the capital area of Helsinki for the whole of my lifetime and the greatest part of the last fiveteen years of it all alone, or more exactly, with cats and now, more recently, the last two years also accompanied by a lady who also have become my lawfully wedded wife. My family has consisted practically of my father and three stepbrothers, my parents having divorced when I was 6 years old. I have compensated this lack of family ties with a large network of friends. The person of Marco Michael Perukangas cannot be fully understood unless it is not approached through its main activities and subjects of interest, even passion.
MUSIC
I was grown up in quite a non-musical family. Despite that, music has not only been my main hobby but an integral part of my life since childhood. The decisive experience was to see the partly fictional Milos Forman -movie about W.A.Mozart, called Amadeus. Since then, the so-called classical music rapidly has taken over, putting all other musical genres aside. Some jazz has crept in more recently, due to influence of some friends.
I would describe my relationship to music that it includes all other approaches to music expect playing or singing myself or studying musical theory. Everything else belongs to me. My attitude to music is an outsider's view (although a devoted and an aware outsider): musical work is for me like a painting. I watch it closely, even dwelling into its world. But as I have never painted, I am an outsider or an accidental tourist who has had the fortune to have a meaningful encounter with it, maybe transformed by it.
What is, then, this "everything else"? My approach to music has been both pragmatic but also theoretical. I am a devoted collector of recorded music in quite a non-systematical way. I also consider myself as a kind of a amateur music journalist and a bureucrat of music. My master's thesis was an attempt to analyse the semiosis in the text of music journalism. In a layman's word: to analyse the relationship between the music itself, the text written of it, the journalist and his/hers imaginational readers. There are also some sketches to study this even further, to expand this notion of sociality in the world of music; I would like to figure out, what is all about to go to a concert. Is the private consuming of music, namely collecting recorded music, also a social venture?
I have had the fortune to work in one of the foremost music institutes at the university level, Sibelius Academy. Having had some previous experiences of working with artists, it is not usually dull but there are a few setbacks. Working in the administration of Les Beaux Arts requires abilities of a simultaneous interpreter but also of a pointsman; one has to possess a great vision in order to understand the ingredients of being an artist but also has to have a great stamina when one tries patiently to explain that 3 pounds is necessarily a greater sum of money than 2 pounds.
SPORTS
It seems obvious and something that one may almost take for granted that in the public feasts of sports rock music is roaring from the loudspeakers, giving added rhythm for the athletes and entertainment for the spectators. Classical music belongs to the world of feminine sports, such as figure skating, gymnastics and dance. Although the worlds of classical music and the world of masculine sports (e.g. football, boxing, icehockey, motor sports and perhaps athletics) do not have a positive correlation, there is a surprising connection in the way they are treated in the newspapers. Sports pages are greater in number than those that are devoted to music and sports make greater headlines, that is to be made sure. But what is common is that sports journalist also is describing something that has already happened. Sports journalist is also sort of a critic of a performance. The sports journalist has as the starting point the result that is already known by him (seldom her) and gradually he reveals the reasons that lead to the outcome. The reader who has not been "there" is told by the journalist that Arsenal beat the hapless PSV Eindhoven because Henry netted twice and it all started when Gilberto scored the fastest goal in the history of the tournament. And the one who had the fortune to be there as an eye-witness, he/she (again usually he) may check it out in the newspaper, that what he saw was real, according to an expert exponent of a media institution, that is a sports journalist.
My personal experience of sports is somewhat similar than that of music. Running is easier than playing the piano, although those with physical disabilities may not agree with me. I am enjoying physical exercise for the sheer experience without having any spesific goal-setting. My best achievement in sports has been the 19th place in the Finnish student Marathon championship 1999. I have also played some basketball and football, lacking the competitive cutting edge. I exercise mainly because it feels good.
HOMO SAPIENS
The main point of me is not fully grasped if one is unaware of the fact that I happened to learn to read at the tender age of three. Since then, I have read through practically everything within a three-year-old´s reach in his father's bookcase. Having sooner and later also realised how to write myself, I have grown up with textbooks and all sorts of statistics. Literary activities of my own started from a sort of comic books, later there have been very few genres that have remained unscatched by me. As a thorough linguistic person, my scientific approach has been permeated with the notion as the man being a communicative creature and the messages, even the ways and forms of saying also bearing a message in themselves. And as a thorough scientific person, I am also trying to live up to this very notion, although not everything can be enonciated.
The venture of science has been my cup of tea, even without the milk. I have been sort of a passionate but amateurish astronomist, paleonthologist, meteorologist and zoologist. That said, periodically. My scientific breeding was given a form and name by sociology, which I studied at the University of Helsinki since 1992 up till 1998, also doing some philosophy and social psychology. The borderlines between those sciences - if they are sciences at all - are somewhat undefinable, and my everlasting desire to study has mainly been maintained by teaching some courses of philosophy at the Helsinki Polytechnic. I have also been approved as a postgraduate at my university, but in the course and also curse of short term employments, concentrating into the research has not always been the top priority.
I have been editor-in-chief in one school paper and also in the paper called "Linnake" (Fortress), which is the paper published by the Suomenlinna Fortress Artillery, where I did my military service. I have also been around in a couple of student papers, both as an active writer and also as a member of the editing board. The Helsinki Student Housing Company also used to publish a paper called "HOAS-asukas"; it was practically for two years a two-man-venture by a friend of mine and myself. The favoured genres were sports stories, music, political essays and interviews. Later on, I have published some articles in a few Finnish non-referee papers and been the administator of several blogs on green areas and involved with some blogs on Green politics.
I have also tried my luck with poetry and aphoristics, and there are some sketches for a yet unpublished pamplet with a friend of mine, where we a trying to tackle the present Finnish society from different perspectives but similar backgrounds and sometimes tackling even ourselves. Still, it remains unclear, whether the world is yet to see the best of me. Or not.
SOCIETAL ACTIVITIES
Being largely an anti-social kid, a hermit with all the books and writings and dreams of mine, there has although been an on-going albeit an undercurrent desire to hang along with humans, albeit accidentaly. I joined the Finnish concervative party youth society and became a chairman of a small local youth organisation, being also a candidate for municipal election in 1992. I was there at the very forefront of the few crazy or brave pioneers who took the initiative to take Finland to the EU. The rest is history.
As I started to study sociology at the university level, my former political background soon seemed somewhat artifical to me and I was disturbed by the very lack of intelligence in the political life, too often compromised by the sheer, crude facts of every day party necessities. At the university I had found people with the same orientation, although not necessarily with the same background. I switched political parties as smoothly as I switched girlfriends, let alone jobs or underpants. I was an on-and-off student organisation activist for a few years before I had to concentrate to my studies. Organisational activities seemed to transform in the 1990s from party societys of carrying piles of beer bottles to more or less business and profit orientated organisations, and that requires a great deal of time. But at least this procedure of organisational activities have transformed into a much more outgoing and confident person and my old man has no need any more to be concerned about my lacking life outside the very walls of my room.
Quite recently, and merely by accident, I have become not only an activist but also an active activist. My main concern during the last two years has been to preserve to Central Park of Helsinki from threats of all kind. In the process, I have joined the Green party, being now the treasury holder of a local organisation. Accident and calling, they are the two sides of a coin; now as an old and wise man, I could see it happening. People who become doctors or musicians are used to apologise that it was something unavoidable, let alone politicians, who are labelled as pathologically sick or at least lacking a life.
MOTTO?
There are just a few pieces of a good advice I can recall. My father urged me to have a girlfriend with a social orientation. Nevertheless, I took care of my secondary socialisation by myself, no girlfriend was needed. Then my wise old teacher used to say in Swedish (the Finnish French in Canada, our second official domestic language in Finland) that "det är bet som sker". The meaning of this is the saying "shit happens" reversed. Third good piece of advice was given by a senior scientist, who told me to "kill my darlings". No shotguns are needed for this procedure, not even words, but I interpreted this as having the ability to be courageous enough to leave all the bad habits behind and to make major decisions. The big decisions - concerning work, significant others, studying opportunities - are usually quite painless, plain and simple. There are usually just two options: take it or leave it. One has to consider all the known options available and try to be aware of all possible outcomings, but once the decision has been made, it is the only way around. It has to be. Or at least, it has to feel like that. Choosing between dozens of beer qualities in the pub is much more difficult.
POSSIBLE FUTURE?
Aki Riihilahti is a Finnish international football player currently plying his trade in Sweden, but having played for several years for Crystal Palace. He is perhaps better known for his website filled with homemade philosophy which is absolutely hilarious stuff. and for his column in London Times. I would like to see myself as a post-reneissaince version of Aki Riihilahti in the fields of critical, reflective and researching journalism.
Ilkka Hakalehto was - he is still alive, you know - a Finnish politician of the 70s and 80s who is best known for his critical attitude towards the more authoritative politicians in the Helsinki municipality but also for his lack of co-operation. I would like to see myself as a positive version of Mr. Hakalehto, willing to break taboos, challenging those in power, asking difficult questions with undesirable answers. Later on, he made himself a laughing stock for god-only-knows-some-thirtyseventh time - by being a candidate for president in 1994 with a monomanic agenda, accusing the EU for all the wrongs and misgivings in the universe - but I will forgive him for that.
Let us not mention the personal level, as I would also like to be surrounded by some significant others and to be in a decent physical condition and in some mental state.
I was born in the year 1971 in a town nearby Helsinki, called Vantaa, although not with that name at that very time. Vantaa was still quite a peripheral suburban area of Helsinki, now it is a rapidly growing city of some 190 000 inhabitants. Having lived in the capital area of Helsinki for the whole of my lifetime and the greatest part of the last fiveteen years of it all alone, or more exactly, with cats and now, more recently, the last two years also accompanied by a lady who also have become my lawfully wedded wife. My family has consisted practically of my father and three stepbrothers, my parents having divorced when I was 6 years old. I have compensated this lack of family ties with a large network of friends. The person of Marco Michael Perukangas cannot be fully understood unless it is not approached through its main activities and subjects of interest, even passion.
MUSIC
I was grown up in quite a non-musical family. Despite that, music has not only been my main hobby but an integral part of my life since childhood. The decisive experience was to see the partly fictional Milos Forman -movie about W.A.Mozart, called Amadeus. Since then, the so-called classical music rapidly has taken over, putting all other musical genres aside. Some jazz has crept in more recently, due to influence of some friends.
I would describe my relationship to music that it includes all other approaches to music expect playing or singing myself or studying musical theory. Everything else belongs to me. My attitude to music is an outsider's view (although a devoted and an aware outsider): musical work is for me like a painting. I watch it closely, even dwelling into its world. But as I have never painted, I am an outsider or an accidental tourist who has had the fortune to have a meaningful encounter with it, maybe transformed by it.
What is, then, this "everything else"? My approach to music has been both pragmatic but also theoretical. I am a devoted collector of recorded music in quite a non-systematical way. I also consider myself as a kind of a amateur music journalist and a bureucrat of music. My master's thesis was an attempt to analyse the semiosis in the text of music journalism. In a layman's word: to analyse the relationship between the music itself, the text written of it, the journalist and his/hers imaginational readers. There are also some sketches to study this even further, to expand this notion of sociality in the world of music; I would like to figure out, what is all about to go to a concert. Is the private consuming of music, namely collecting recorded music, also a social venture?
I have had the fortune to work in one of the foremost music institutes at the university level, Sibelius Academy. Having had some previous experiences of working with artists, it is not usually dull but there are a few setbacks. Working in the administration of Les Beaux Arts requires abilities of a simultaneous interpreter but also of a pointsman; one has to possess a great vision in order to understand the ingredients of being an artist but also has to have a great stamina when one tries patiently to explain that 3 pounds is necessarily a greater sum of money than 2 pounds.
SPORTS
It seems obvious and something that one may almost take for granted that in the public feasts of sports rock music is roaring from the loudspeakers, giving added rhythm for the athletes and entertainment for the spectators. Classical music belongs to the world of feminine sports, such as figure skating, gymnastics and dance. Although the worlds of classical music and the world of masculine sports (e.g. football, boxing, icehockey, motor sports and perhaps athletics) do not have a positive correlation, there is a surprising connection in the way they are treated in the newspapers. Sports pages are greater in number than those that are devoted to music and sports make greater headlines, that is to be made sure. But what is common is that sports journalist also is describing something that has already happened. Sports journalist is also sort of a critic of a performance. The sports journalist has as the starting point the result that is already known by him (seldom her) and gradually he reveals the reasons that lead to the outcome. The reader who has not been "there" is told by the journalist that Arsenal beat the hapless PSV Eindhoven because Henry netted twice and it all started when Gilberto scored the fastest goal in the history of the tournament. And the one who had the fortune to be there as an eye-witness, he/she (again usually he) may check it out in the newspaper, that what he saw was real, according to an expert exponent of a media institution, that is a sports journalist.
My personal experience of sports is somewhat similar than that of music. Running is easier than playing the piano, although those with physical disabilities may not agree with me. I am enjoying physical exercise for the sheer experience without having any spesific goal-setting. My best achievement in sports has been the 19th place in the Finnish student Marathon championship 1999. I have also played some basketball and football, lacking the competitive cutting edge. I exercise mainly because it feels good.
HOMO SAPIENS
The main point of me is not fully grasped if one is unaware of the fact that I happened to learn to read at the tender age of three. Since then, I have read through practically everything within a three-year-old´s reach in his father's bookcase. Having sooner and later also realised how to write myself, I have grown up with textbooks and all sorts of statistics. Literary activities of my own started from a sort of comic books, later there have been very few genres that have remained unscatched by me. As a thorough linguistic person, my scientific approach has been permeated with the notion as the man being a communicative creature and the messages, even the ways and forms of saying also bearing a message in themselves. And as a thorough scientific person, I am also trying to live up to this very notion, although not everything can be enonciated.
The venture of science has been my cup of tea, even without the milk. I have been sort of a passionate but amateurish astronomist, paleonthologist, meteorologist and zoologist. That said, periodically. My scientific breeding was given a form and name by sociology, which I studied at the University of Helsinki since 1992 up till 1998, also doing some philosophy and social psychology. The borderlines between those sciences - if they are sciences at all - are somewhat undefinable, and my everlasting desire to study has mainly been maintained by teaching some courses of philosophy at the Helsinki Polytechnic. I have also been approved as a postgraduate at my university, but in the course and also curse of short term employments, concentrating into the research has not always been the top priority.
I have been editor-in-chief in one school paper and also in the paper called "Linnake" (Fortress), which is the paper published by the Suomenlinna Fortress Artillery, where I did my military service. I have also been around in a couple of student papers, both as an active writer and also as a member of the editing board. The Helsinki Student Housing Company also used to publish a paper called "HOAS-asukas"; it was practically for two years a two-man-venture by a friend of mine and myself. The favoured genres were sports stories, music, political essays and interviews. Later on, I have published some articles in a few Finnish non-referee papers and been the administator of several blogs on green areas and involved with some blogs on Green politics.
I have also tried my luck with poetry and aphoristics, and there are some sketches for a yet unpublished pamplet with a friend of mine, where we a trying to tackle the present Finnish society from different perspectives but similar backgrounds and sometimes tackling even ourselves. Still, it remains unclear, whether the world is yet to see the best of me. Or not.
SOCIETAL ACTIVITIES
Being largely an anti-social kid, a hermit with all the books and writings and dreams of mine, there has although been an on-going albeit an undercurrent desire to hang along with humans, albeit accidentaly. I joined the Finnish concervative party youth society and became a chairman of a small local youth organisation, being also a candidate for municipal election in 1992. I was there at the very forefront of the few crazy or brave pioneers who took the initiative to take Finland to the EU. The rest is history.
As I started to study sociology at the university level, my former political background soon seemed somewhat artifical to me and I was disturbed by the very lack of intelligence in the political life, too often compromised by the sheer, crude facts of every day party necessities. At the university I had found people with the same orientation, although not necessarily with the same background. I switched political parties as smoothly as I switched girlfriends, let alone jobs or underpants. I was an on-and-off student organisation activist for a few years before I had to concentrate to my studies. Organisational activities seemed to transform in the 1990s from party societys of carrying piles of beer bottles to more or less business and profit orientated organisations, and that requires a great deal of time. But at least this procedure of organisational activities have transformed into a much more outgoing and confident person and my old man has no need any more to be concerned about my lacking life outside the very walls of my room.
Quite recently, and merely by accident, I have become not only an activist but also an active activist. My main concern during the last two years has been to preserve to Central Park of Helsinki from threats of all kind. In the process, I have joined the Green party, being now the treasury holder of a local organisation. Accident and calling, they are the two sides of a coin; now as an old and wise man, I could see it happening. People who become doctors or musicians are used to apologise that it was something unavoidable, let alone politicians, who are labelled as pathologically sick or at least lacking a life.
MOTTO?
There are just a few pieces of a good advice I can recall. My father urged me to have a girlfriend with a social orientation. Nevertheless, I took care of my secondary socialisation by myself, no girlfriend was needed. Then my wise old teacher used to say in Swedish (the Finnish French in Canada, our second official domestic language in Finland) that "det är bet som sker". The meaning of this is the saying "shit happens" reversed. Third good piece of advice was given by a senior scientist, who told me to "kill my darlings". No shotguns are needed for this procedure, not even words, but I interpreted this as having the ability to be courageous enough to leave all the bad habits behind and to make major decisions. The big decisions - concerning work, significant others, studying opportunities - are usually quite painless, plain and simple. There are usually just two options: take it or leave it. One has to consider all the known options available and try to be aware of all possible outcomings, but once the decision has been made, it is the only way around. It has to be. Or at least, it has to feel like that. Choosing between dozens of beer qualities in the pub is much more difficult.
POSSIBLE FUTURE?
Aki Riihilahti is a Finnish international football player currently plying his trade in Sweden, but having played for several years for Crystal Palace. He is perhaps better known for his website filled with homemade philosophy which is absolutely hilarious stuff. and for his column in London Times. I would like to see myself as a post-reneissaince version of Aki Riihilahti in the fields of critical, reflective and researching journalism.
Ilkka Hakalehto was - he is still alive, you know - a Finnish politician of the 70s and 80s who is best known for his critical attitude towards the more authoritative politicians in the Helsinki municipality but also for his lack of co-operation. I would like to see myself as a positive version of Mr. Hakalehto, willing to break taboos, challenging those in power, asking difficult questions with undesirable answers. Later on, he made himself a laughing stock for god-only-knows-some-thirtyseventh time - by being a candidate for president in 1994 with a monomanic agenda, accusing the EU for all the wrongs and misgivings in the universe - but I will forgive him for that.
Let us not mention the personal level, as I would also like to be surrounded by some significant others and to be in a decent physical condition and in some mental state.
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