I fail to see the relation to this thread, but it's difficult to be good at a sport that the population isn't at all invested in. Similarly, Iceland is bad at hockey.
Too boring, finns don't have the attention span. It is the opposite of football where no goals are scored. Every other shot is a goal. Hockey is just right.
In Finland, handball has somehow been earmarked as a game for the Fennoswedes and is largely popular only in areas with notable Swedish-speaking minorities - with the exception of the shores of the Bothnian Gulf. (And by this I mean it's not particularly popular there despite having a sizable Swedish-speaking population.) What sort of hammers this home is the following fun fact: the northernmost town in Finland that has a club in the Finnish Handball League is... Riihimäki.
Just as handball is more popular in southern Sweden, handball is almost solely practiced in the Helsinki region and to some extent in the Turku archipelago. The team in Riihimäki is also the only professional team and completely relies on import players and an owner keeping the team alive, so it's not really representing the Finnish handball demographics. As FiLe said, it's basically the national sport of the Finnish-Swedish speaking people, so the exposure isn't that big.
- let 'em play hockey and ishockey and hardrock instead.I agree that the gay jokes are rather juvenile, but they're also kind of given, considering what the two most successful clubs in the League are called... (I won't name 'em here because I'm not sure if the mods approve or not.)
More or less the standard reaction every time this guy posts something.
hellholes in Finland have it all. And I mean it
