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Show Notes & Video
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In episode 14, as usual, we started by looking at some recent news:
- Rich – The proliferation of new football kits being released in Finland
- Mark H – The recent UEFA Congress held in Helsinki
- Sound of Football podcast episode about the UEFA Nations League
- Mark W – Suomen Cup Semi-finals and U19 Euro Championship 2017. Useful links:
Huuhkajat in Action
- 24.3.2017 Turkey 2 – 0 Finland
- 28.3.2017 Austria 1 – 1 Finland
Veikkausliiga starts
Summarised perfectly by Rich “It’s good, I’m glad” (you can see why we pay him the big bucks to appear on #FFS 😉 )
- Wed 5.4.2017
- HJK 5 – 0 VPS
- SJK 1 – 1 FC Lahti
- Sat 8.4.2017
- IFK Mariehamn 5 –2 JJK
- Ilves 1 — 1 FC Lahti
- PS Kemi 0 — 0 HIFK
- VPS 3 — 1 SJK
Since recording the show, there have been a couple more fixtures played:
- Mon 10.4
- HJK 2 – 0 KuPS
- Wed 12.4
- Inter 6 – 2 RoPS
The current league table can be found on the Veikkausliiga website
We also discussed:
- Scheduling of fixtures
- SJK’s recent new signings including Diego Bardanca, Facundo Guichon, and Aristote Mbomba
- Image search Diego Bardanca’s name to see photos of his horrendous injury
- We were also joined by young Lumi Nelson ❤️ whose contribution shows that the future of FFS is in good hands!
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