The Finnish Football Show

For our final show of 2021, we decided to broadcast it as a Facebook Live video and publish the results as a series of podcasts over the Christmas holiday. This was recorded on Monday 20.12.2021.

The FFS team were grateful to Boris Wistuba-Marino for jumping into our Facebook Live show right at the beginning. Boris is a youth coach at Espoon Palloseura, Kitman at HJK Helsinki and the 'funny sidekick' on the Pallo ja Pullo podcast.

Boris talked to us about the recent announcement that Time Sparv will retire from playing football 😥 and how he came to be a youth coach in Finland.

Show Notes and links https://finnishfootballshow.com/2021/12/26/ffs-xmas-live-show/

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In this episode, the FFS team is missing one or two key players. Not because of injury or poor form, but because of holidays. Mark has a had a challenging summer and is taking a well-earned break. Similarly, Keke seems to have ventured overseas for a family vacation.

But we didn't want to keep you waiting, so this episode is Mark W and Rich, possibly joined by Keke. We will discuss our recent predictions competition (if a survey that collects answers but offers no prize can be called a competition!) We will then look at how the opening 7 rounds of Veikkausliiga action has panned-out. Who is leading the table? Who has already fallen behind? And why does Rich keep trolling me about the form of SJK?

I have to also give a shout out to Kevin Cumming in our Facebook group. He found us recently and has listened to the entire back catalogue. Kevin - THANK YOU! 🙏🏻

You can read Kevin's full review of five-and-a-half shambolic years of FFS: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FinnishFootballShow/permalink/2628245217275512/

Show notes and links

(Check the Show Notes for beautiful colour charts & graphs)

Suomen Cup winners 2020

• HJK Helsinki (18 responses) , Inter Turku (5)

Veikkausliiga champions 2020

• HJK Helsinki (23 responses) , Inter Turku (2), HIFK Helsinki (1), Honka (1), Ilves (1), KuPS Kuopio (1), SJK Seinäjoki (1)

Europa League qualifiers 2020

• KuPS (12 responses, 40%), Honka (11, 36.7%), Inter Turku (11, 36.7%), SJK Seinäjoki (7, 23.3%), Ilves (6, 20%), HJK (6, 20%)

Relegated 2020

• TPS Turku (14 responses), RoPS Rovaniemi (7), IFK Mariehamn (4), HIFK Helsinki (3), Lahti (1), KuPS (1)

What are you most looking forward to in the 2020 season?

1. Live Football (5 responses)
2. Eero Markkanen 😍 (3)
3. Seeing how KuPS perform (3)
4. Expecting RoPS to struggle (2)

The FFS team look back at the games played in the past few days:

• Finland 2-2 Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Ukraine 1-1 Finland
• Player development under Rive and possible player ‘churn’ 😁
• Plus Mrs W’s prediction for Switzerland vs Finland this week

Show notes & links

Blog: show notes and links https://finnishfootballshow.com/2024/06/13/match-reports-euro-2025-qualifiers-finland-netherlands-huuhkajat-friendlies/

The FFS team are back today to review last week's games for both the women's national team, the Helmarit, and the men's national team, the Huuhkajat. Mark W, Keke, Mark H and Rasmus discuss two Euro 2025 qualifiers for the Helmarit, both close-fought games against the Netherlands.

The Huuhkajat, however, provided pre-Euro 2024 practice for Portugal and Scotland, while also trying a few new things themselves. They hear about Keke's trip to Glasgow and finish up with an update on manager, Markku 'Rive' Kanerva's future.

00:00:00 Intro
00:02:35 Euro 2025 Finland vs Netherlands match reports
00:19:23 Keke’s trip to Glasgow
00:27:16 Scotland 2-2 Finland match report
00:29:29 Portugal 4-2 Finland match report
00:36:54 Coaching team changes and Kanerva’s future

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Merry-go-round = Carousel or karuselli

This is the episode that Mark H has been promising/threatening for a couple of weeks. The team discuss the recent spate of sackings, announcements of resignations (pre-signations?) and rumoured manager transfers for 2022. Attention then turns to SJK Seinäjoki, who are firmly embroiled in this silly-season and whose fans are about to take action and boycott the upcoming game with FC Inter Turku.

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