The VPS Chronicle
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at VPS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joonas Vahtera 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Paulo Lima gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Paulo Lima is on it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Jonathan Muzinga
“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.
In brief
- The dugout Paulo Lima knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Martti Haukioja talk will not go away
- The dugout The manager comes out for Will Wilson
- Squad Eero Ojala is out on the grass again