Plenty of Nothing

Ässät versus Lukko in the 2000s

Finnish national team member Sakari Salminen played for Ässät from 2017 to 2010, then did a tour of European leagues before returning to Pori last season. Source.

2009-10

    2009/9/11      Ässät 1 - 6 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2009/10/23    Lukko 4 - 2 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2009/12/26    Lukko 1 - 0 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2010/2/6        Ässät 2 - 1 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2010/3/5        Lukko 5 - 4 Ässät    Runkosarja

2008-09

    2008/9/12      Lukko 6 - 1 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2008/11/15    Lukko 1 - 2 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2008/12/27    Ässät 2 - 1 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2009/1/30      Ässät 2 - 1 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2009/3/3        Ässät 4 - 2 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2009/3/17      Lukko 1 - 0 Ässät    Relegation playoffs, Round 2

    2009/3/19      Ässät 0 - 1 Lukko    Relegation playoffs, Round 2

    2009/3/21      Lukko 1 - 4 Ässät    Relegation playoffs, Round 2

    2009/3/23      Ässät 1 - 3 Lukko    Relegation playoffs, Round 2

Lukko avoided relegation by beating Ässät, Ässät by beating Mestis playoff champion Sport.

2007-08

    2007/9/14      Ässät 4 - 3 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2007/10/19    Lukko 5 - 1 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2007/10/31    Lukko 5 - 1 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2007/12/5      Ässät 1 - 3 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2008/1/19      Ässät 2 - 3 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2008/2/2        Lukko 2 - 3 Ässät    Runkosarja

2006-07

    2006/9/14      Lukko 3 - 5 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2006/10/21    Ässät 3 - 6 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2006/11/16    Ässät 1 - 2 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2006/12/28    Lukko 4 - 2 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2007/1/20      Lukko 4 - 1 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2007/2/15      Ässät 2 - 6 Lukko    Runkosarja

2005-06

    2005/9/15      Ässät 2 - 1 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2005/10/20    Lukko 0 - 2 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2005/11/17    Lukko 0 - 1 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2005/12/29    Ässät 6 - 3 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2006/1/31      Ässät 3 - 0 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2006/2/28      Lukko 0 - 2 Ässät    Runkosarja

2004-05

    2004/9/16      Lukko 6 - 1 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2004/10/19    Ässät 1 - 2 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2004/11/16    Ässät 0 - 4 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2004/12/30    Lukko 4 - 0 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2005/2/1        Lukko 2 - 0 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2005/3/5        Ässät 2 - 4 Lukko    Runkosarja

2003-04

    2003/9/12      Ässät 2 - 1 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2003/10/25    Lukko 2 - 2 Ässät     Runkosarja    (Their last tie game.)

    2003/11/13    Ässät 0 - 5 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2003/12/27    Lukko 7 - 0 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2004/1/17      Ässät 4 - 5 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2004/2/11      Lukko 3 - 2 Ässät    Runkosarja

2002-03

    2002/9/17      Lukko 5 - 4 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2002/10/19    Ässät 3 - 2 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2002/12/7      Ässät 4 - 2 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2002/12/28    Lukko 1 - 1 Ässät     Runkosarja

    2003/1/19      Lukko 3 - 1 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2003/2/27      Ässät 3 - 2 Lukko    Runkosarja

2001-02

    2001/9/16      Ässät 2 - 6 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2001/10/16    Lukko 5 - 2 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2001/11/13    Lukko 4 - 5 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2001/12/27    Ässät 2 - 5 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2002/1/22      Lukko 2 - 4 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2002/1/31      Ässät 6 - 1 Lukko    Runkosarja

2000-01

    2000/9/14      Ässät 2 - 7 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2000/10/14    Lukko 2 - 2 Ässät     Runkosarja

    2000/10/26    Ässät 2 - 2 Lukko     Runkosarja

    2000/11/21    Lukko 4 - 6 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2001/1/4        Ässät 2 - 4 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2001/1/27      Lukko 5 - 2 Ässät    Runkosarja

    2001/2/13      Ässät 5 - 6 Lukko    Runkosarja

    2001/3/8        Lukko 3 - 3 Ässät     Runkosarja

Corona Capsule

Most re-entry vehicles are not designed for human occupancy, but you never hear about them because they're usually doing spy stuff. This Corona film return capsule de-orbitted in 1972 with a cargo of surveillance photographs. Source.

Grave of a Shield Maiden

Top: 1889 record of a Viking burial. Bottom: recreation by Neil Price. From the time of its discovery this skeleton was assumed to be male, but recent DNA analysis shows it was a women. Source.

1923 Mercury Dime

From 1916 till 1945 the US dime looked like this, with a bust of Liberty on the obverse and Roman fasces on the reverse. Liberty had appeared on earlier dimes, but the addition of wings to her cap led to a popular misconception that it was a portrait of Mercury. The fasces that had once seemed a suitable emblem of republican government, now smelled of Mussolini. In 1945 the Mint replaced Winged Liberty/Mercury with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the fasces with a torch. Source.

Hvidovre

Not Somerset Park, but Hvidovre Stadion. Source.

Morton visit Ayr United. Willie Collum officiates.

Ayr defeated Morton 3 - 1 in the League Cup group stage at Somerset Park in July, and in September won 5 - 1 at Cappielow. Lawrence Shankland scored 5 of those 8 goals.

Shankland has 12 goals in league play. McHugh has 5 for Morton, and Tidser has 4.

The Honest Men sit four points clear atop the division and so cannot be dislodged today. Morton are fifth and could end the afternoon in fourth, fifth or sixth place. Ayr have scored 25 goals in league play, Morton 18. Ayr have allowed 12 goals, Morton 21. Ayr are on a four-game undefeated streak. Morton lost to Alloa last weekend. Ayr have 12 clean sheets this season, league and cup. Morton have 4.

Yet Ayr's home jersey is a plain white t-shirt.

Kerr Waddell has extended his loan (from Dundee) to the end of the season.

Flemming Nielsen, Danish midfielder who played for Morton from 1964 to 1966, has died at 84. His home club was B 93. He's the tall one on the right in this photo.

Two other Championship matches go today:

Falkirk (10th) [1 - 1] Partick Thistle (9th)

Falkirk will never have a better chance to get out of the cellar. [Ha ha.]

Queen of the South (6th) [3 - 3] Inverness CT (4th)

It's match 14 and ICT are still undefeated.

[Ayr 0 - 0 Morton.]

Dundee United and Dunfermline Athletic are idle. But Ross County and Alloa are busy because it's the quarter-finals of the Challenge Cup. The matches are:

Motherwell colts [1 - 2] Ross County

Motherwell's is the first colt team to make it to the quarter-finals of this cup.

Edinburgh City [2 - 2] Alloa. [Edinburgh City win on PK.]

This is the first game ever between these two clubs.

Queen's Park [1 - 2] Connah's Quay Nomads

This is Queen's Park's first game against another team with an apostrophe in its name since Bo'ness United in the 2010-11 Scottish Cup. David Rock, who normally officiates National League matches in England, is referee.

Bohemians p-p East Fife.

This one is delayed until January or February.

1928-29. Morton hosted Alloa Athletic and lost 3 - 4.

1951-52. Morton hosted Third Lanark and won 3 - 1.

Morton reserves played Manchester United U-23s at Cappielow Thursday. Man U won 0 - 1. The Mancunians were up at Largs for a training camp.

What are the football clubs of South Ayrshire?

SPFL: Ayr United.

SJFA West Region Premiership: Troon

SJFA West Region Championship: Girvan, Whitletts Victoria

SJFA West Region League One: Maybole

SJFA West Region League Two: Annbank United

Arthurlie versus Montrose. These two played together in Division Three in 1923-24. Arthurlie won the first game 3 - 0 at home. The second game in Montrose ended 1 - 1.

Angus derby: Brechin [1 - 5] Arbroath

Manageria: Arbroath manager Dickie Campbell has been suspended 8 games for storming the pitch during the October 6th match against Raith Rovers. He was suspended 7 games back in February, also for storming the pitch. He's a stormer.

Number of matches in which Morton scored or conceded 5 or more goals each season this decade, expressed as a scoreline:

2018-19        2 - 2        (in progress)

2017-18        1 - 0

2016-17        2 - 0

2015-16        1 - 0

2014-15        1 - 0

2013-14        1 - 3

2012-13        4 - 1

2011-12        3 - 3

2010-11        2 - 1

(Includes league and cup games.)

How have Morton fared in Match Fourteen this decade?

2017/11/25        Falkirk 0 - 3 Morton

2016/11/19        Morton 0 - 0 Dundee United

2015/11/7          Morton 1 - 0 Livingston

2014/11/22        Morton 3 - 1 Stenhousemuir

2013/11/23        Morton 1 - 5 Livingston

2012/12/8          Raith Rovers 3 - 3 Morton

2011/11/26        Morton 2 - 2 QoS

2010/12/11        Morton 0 - 1 Dundee

3 wins, 3 draws, 2 losses.

2018-19 Championship card standings:

                        yellow    red

Dunfermline        23        0

QoS                    23        0

Ross County      23        1

Ayr Utd               23        2

Morton                24        0

Falkirk                25        1

Partick                27        0

Alloa                   27        1

Dundee Utd        27        1

ICT                     29        1

(Up to and including Nov 10th. League matches only.)

Danish 1st Division: Hvidovre [2 - 0] Fredericia

Hvidovre is a suburb of Copenhagen. Originally it was just Ovre, but they started calling it Hvidovre (White Ovre) in honour of its white church, to differentiate it from Rødovre which has a red church and is in another part of town. Hvidovre is pronounced something like vee-our.

SJFA West of Scotland Premiership: Beith [3 - 3] Largs Thistle

J2: Zweigen Kanazawa [3 - 1] Mito HollyHock

Here ends the J2 regular season. The promotion playoffs begin next, but Mito didn't make them.

The JFL also ends this weekend. Here are your unofficial Tohoku derby standings:

    1st Stage:

Sony Sendai                3    3    0    0    7    1    +6    9

Vanraure Hachinohe    3    1    1    1    3    2    +1    4

ReinMeer Aomori         3    1    0    2    3    6     -3    3

Cobaltore Onagawa     3    0    1    2    1    5     -4    1

    2nd Stage:

Sony Sendai                3    2    1    0    8    3    +5    7

Vanraure Hachinohe    3    2    1    0    7    2    +5    7

ReinMeer Aomori         3    1    0    2    6    9     -3    3

Cobaltore Onagawa     3    0    0    3    1    8     -7    0

    Combined:

Sony Sendai                6    5    1    0   15    4   +11  16

Vanraure Hachinohe    6    3    2    1   10    4   +6    11

ReinMeer Aomori         6    2    0    4    9   15    -6     6

Cobaltore Onagawa     6    0    1    5    2   13   -11    1

Kanto University League: Meiji vs Tsukuba

Japanese speakers abbreviate university names differently than I have been doing. The Japanese for Meiji University is Meiji Daigaku, which a Japanese college student would shorten to Meidai instead of Meiji or Meiji U.

Ayr United versus the world:

1951/5/12      Luton 4 - 2 Ayr United

1951/5/14      Bedford Town 1 - 0 Ayr United

1951/5/16      Plymouth Argyle 2 - 1 Ayr United

1951/5/19      Brighton and Hove Albion 5 - 1 Ayr United

1972/9/13      Ayr United 0 - 0 Newcastle United

1972/9/27      Newcastle United 2 - 0 Ayr United

1973/9/19      Ayr United 1 - 1 Leicester City

1973/10/3      Leicester City 2 - 0 Ayr United

1974/9/17      Birmingham City 3 - 0 Ayr United

1974/10/2      Ayr United 0 - 0 Birmingham City

1975/9/15      Ayr United 0 - 1 Mansfield Town

1975/9/29      Mansfield Town 2 - 0 Ayr United

1976/9/15      Ayr United 3 - 0 Newcastle United

1976/10/20    Nottingham Forest 2 - 1 Ayr United

1976/11/3      Ayr United 0 - 2 Nottingham Forest

1997/7/20      York City 0 - 0 Ayr United

2018-19 IIHF Continental Cup, Third Round

Go, Ads, Go!

It's the third round of the IIHF Continental Cup, featuring Groups D and E. This is where the strongest hockey countries of the tournament join in. Some of them -- Britain, France, Poland and Belarus -- have clubs in both the Continental Cup and the top-tier Champions Hockey League.

Group D is:

Arlan Kokshetau, the Kazakhstani champion.

HK Gomel, winners of the Belarusian Cup.

Lyon Lions, winners of the Coupe de France.

Kurbads Riga, the winner of Group C.

Group E is:

Belfast Giants, winners of the EIHL's Challenge Cup.

GKS Katowice, runners-up of the Polish league. The Polish league playoff champions Cracovia are in the Champions Hockey League.

Medveščak Zagreb, the Croatian champion. You might remember them from their time in the KHL. Currently they play in the Austrian league.

Ritten Sport, the winner of Group B.

[Arlan, Gomel, Belfast and Katowice advance to the final round in January.]

Which British clubs have been in the Continental Cup, and how many times?

  6    Sheffield Steelers

  5    Coventry Blaze

  5    Nottingham Panthers

  4    Belfast Giants

  2    Cardiff Devils

  1    London Knights

  1    Ayr Scottish Eagles

What about France?

10    Dragons de Rouen

  7    Brûleurs de Loups Grenoble

  3    HC Reims

  3    Gothiques d'Amiens

  3    Ducs d'Angers

  3    Lyon Lions

  1    HC Caen

  1    Anglet Hormadi

Coffee Manga Synergy

Source. Via Jocelyne Allen.

Shoe Tree

Stony Berlin

I wonder if Jason Lutes took some of the inspiration for his Berlin trilogy from Werner Hegemann's critique of Berlin tenement housing, Das Steinerne Berlin, which translates as Stony Berlin. Hegemann was chased out of Germany by the Nazis.

Bring Me the Head of Yang'asha

Source.