Marked for Armaan Wilson
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Apr 2027
Kelvin Pires in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SJK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
Graduation day at SJK
6 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at SJK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kasper Paananen is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market12 Apr 2027
One of our own: Rasmus Hradecky joins the SJK first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rasmus Hradecky is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Apr 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Paulus Raitala has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market12 Apr 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Erik Pohjanpalo has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 Apr 2027
One of our own: Jaakko Hradecky joins the SJK first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jaakko Hradecky is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Armaan Wilson, and the manager let it.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad15 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Diego Chamorro
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. SJK lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Tempers go at SJK
Kasper Paananen was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
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Squad
Words at SJK training over how hard people work
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Market
The Joonas Kekarainen talk will not go away
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SJK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Kasper Paananen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at SJK
Kelvin Pires was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Kasper Paananen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
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Squad
Aapo Boström has become a man the manager trusts
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Market
SJK shop where it costs nothing
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kasper Paananen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Salim Yussif in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SJK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Albin Björkskog named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Albin Björkskog is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Alberto Martínez dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at SJK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kasper Paananen is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at SJK
Diego Chamorro was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Oskari Väistö
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match29 Aug 2026
SJK and RoPS take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
SJK out of the cup
Inter Turku ended it 2‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match19 Aug 2026
SJK throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Inter Turku the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that SJK will enjoy reviewing.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Joonas Kekarainen at 21 — 7.75
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Joonas Kekarainen did not need any: 7.75, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at SJK
Kelvin Pires was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Kasper Paananen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Kelvin Pires
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Olatoundji Tessilimi. 1‑0 against IFK Mariehamn, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kelvin Pires in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SJK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at SJK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kasper Paananen is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for SJK against Inter Turku
0‑1 to Inter Turku, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market10 Aug 2026
RoPS are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. SJK will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Emil Ingman commits to SJK for another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nobody at SJK has picked up the phone to Markus Arsalo
48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad10 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.