Articles tagged with "sweden"
Djurgårdens Fans Not Good at Celebrating, or: Why You Should Support Assyriska in 2010
By Daryl | November 11th, 2009I didn't really have a favourite Swedish Superettan (second tier) team to support until recently. But then Luka emailed The Offside and persuaded us to ...
You know it's serious if it's on 101greatgoals.com
By Luka | November 11th, 2009Djurgarden fans attack Assyriska players during pitch invasion (video) Still not over this.
DIF 3-0 Assyriska. Football sucks sometimes.
By Luka | November 9th, 200924 hours later and I am still hating football. Unbelievably devastated. ...
Only the biggest and most significant game imaginable.
By Luka | November 8th, 2009Words cannot describe how big this game is. The money, the increased audience, the potential to play in Europe and all the rest of ...
Assyriska 2-0 Djurgardens: On the cusp of greatness.
By Luka | November 5th, 2009Well, to me greatness is just getting promoted. Considering we were in the 3rd tier of Swedish football in 2007, and were in an ...
Video of the season: Two goals worth their weight in gold.
By Luka | November 5th, 2009Advantage Assyriska in the first leg of the Allsvenskan/Superettan relegation/promotion playoff. Goals from Dennis Ostlundh after 39 minutes (assisted by a fine cross from substitute Kristoffer ...
Last Minute Drama - We Did It, Just.
By Luka | October 25th, 2009My oh my. There is only one way Assyriska knows how to do things - the hard way. The uncanny ability to transform ...
Final Round - The Zelge Invasion of Jönköping
By Luka | October 24th, 2009An estimated 1,000 (or more, or less given our propensity to exaggerate things) Zelge fans will have made the journey from Sodertalje, Gothenburg and other ...
Mmmmatch highlights (for once).
By Luka | October 22nd, 2009******** - See, I wasn't lying - teenage Assyrian superstar Nahir Besara is a Swedish youth international. - Kvalplat is just a draw away, we're bringing an ...
Assyriska 4-1 BoIS: 1 game, 1 draw, then bring on the playoff!
By Luka | October 18th, 2009Yet again, mighty General Goran Marklund has led us to a crucial victory. In a day when almost everything, and I mean everything, fell ...
Preview: Fate is out of our hands (aka I wish terrible misfortune upon our rivals)
By Luka | October 17th, 2009It's not a great situation to be in - on the one hand preparing for/anticipating what should be a routine victory against a mid table ...
It ain't easy to soldier on.
By Luka | October 15th, 2009It's taken me a while to get over last week's result. Cruising at 1-0, we emerge from the second half without any conviction, belief ...
Young and Younger: Introducing Genc & Besara
By Luka | October 8th, 2009Mattias Genc Born: May 6, 1989 Position: Striker Height: 180 cm Weight: 74 kg First club: Assyriska FF Season 2009: 2 matches, 1 goal Like Nahir Besara, Genc is a local ...
Promotion checklist: Vasby - Done. Next up - Ljungskile away.
By Luka | October 5th, 2009Hi Vasby United, thanks for coming. It's very unfortunate that our paths had to cross at this this time. You know, us being ...
Assyriska 4-0 Väsby United: A brief preliminary summation.
By Luka | October 4th, 2009Goals: 1-0 General Marklund 60' 2-0 Furuseth 63' 3-0 Näfver 83' 4-0 Genc 90' Attendance: 2,700 Team: Other result of note: Qviding 2 - 0 Åtvidabergs FF This means that, as things stand, we ...
A post for the sake of posting.
By Luka | October 2nd, 2009[gallery] Step one of the grand emergency response plan: check. We won the derby, which on top of being the biggest game of the season, ...
Syrianska 0 - 1 Assyriska: Derby Delight, Othuroye rule Södertälje
By Luka | September 28th, 2009Where o where to begin... The build up to the game was less animated than usual. This can be attributed to the fact that, ...
Syrianska v Assyriska - Derby Preview
By Luka | September 26th, 2009Syrianska are technically the home team, and we'll know it too. They have been allocated the main (biggest) stand and will no doubt consume ...
Rewind: Work In Progress.
By chris | September 25th, 2009Choosing the most underrated players in football. What Sol Campbell could teach David Beckham. The guardian tells us Manchester United may have time on their hands. Real Madrid ...
There's No Cheating In Football!
By chris | September 24th, 2009[101 Great Goals] Oh wait. This is Kim Christensen. Kim is a goalkeeper for IFK Goteborg. Kim is also in a lot of trouble. Because, you ...
At Assyriska, anything can happen [aka the fallout]
By Luka | September 24th, 2009With 5 games to go, the Assyriska board has taken a desperate and drastic measure in an attempt to somehow rescue the season from meandering ...
Assyriska 0-0 Trollhättan: Bloody Trolls [Bye Bye Promotion]
By Luka | September 21st, 2009Like I said in the preview, same old same old. I write the preview with optimism, pray for a win (which shouldn't be necessary) ...
Never understimate trolls...
By Luka | September 20th, 2009Remember the troll in Lord of the Rings (or was he a dwarf?). How about those disturbingly scary trolls in Charlie & the Chocolate ...
Åtvidabergs 1-0 Assyriska - [Sack the coach].
By Luka | September 16th, 2009We hadn't won in Atvidaberg in 8 matches previously. We still haven't. For the realists, this was no surprise. [Sack the coach] ...
When things just fall into place
By Luka | September 14th, 2009The Superettan kind of reminds me of this. It seems that as soon as a team (other than those Mjallby chaps) has an opportunity ...
The irony isn't lost on me...
By Luka | September 11th, 2009So there I was, for the past week, lapping it up and watching every other Euro club blogger express their distaste of the international break. ...
AssyriskaFF 2-1 Vasalunds IF: The winning feeling returns.
By Luka | September 7th, 2009Form is temporary, class is permanent. That’s all nice and rosy, but I’d like to ask the person who coined this expression what the ...
AssyriskaFF v Vasalunds IF - preview
By Luka | September 4th, 2009When: Monday 1am (Australia). For Americans, this might help. Where: Sodertalje Arena. How: On C Sports of course (It can't get any worse, can ...
Story of our season, so far...
By Luka | September 3rd, 2009This photo sums up our season quite cogently. At times it's appeared that only Eddie Moussa still possesses the passion, drive, fight and commitment ...
IK Sirius 5-0 AssyriskaFF: Lost count, mind.
By Luka | August 31st, 2009I couldn't watch the match, as some new verification system on the C Sports website would not accept my card details. Assyriska lost 5-0. ...
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