The PK-35 Chronicle
Squad28 May 2029
Maximo Tolonen 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 PK-35 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 May 2029
A bad afternoon for PK-35 against Klubi 04
0‑1 to Klubi 04, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 May 2029
Jasper Pikkuhookana gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad28 May 2029
Riku Granlund out for 43 days
The medical room confirms 43 days on the sidelines for Riku Granlund, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad28 May 2029
Juho Pirttijoki 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 dugout28 May 2029
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Oliver Granlund to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings28 May 2029
The afternoon ran through Teo Rundbäck
Chances created: 7. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.
Market28 May 2029
The Otto Salmensuu story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Otto Salmensuu signs something — a contract at PK-35 or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout28 May 2029
The plan did not have a place for Gianluca Astaldi
Nobody at PK-35 is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
In brief
- Squad Pietro Burini wants out of the dugout
- Market Ivan Pavlov placed on the list
- The dugout Gianluca Astaldi knocks on the manager’s door