Finnish Football Show episode 2

Monday 14th December sees myself, Mark and Mark return to our respective hotseats for the second episode of the Finnish Football Show. After the surprisingly good reception of the first episode, we will be looking at the Finland national team, with new boss Hans Backe due to start in three weeks time.

As before, we will be recording using the Blab platform, so it'll be a live video broadcast (effectively a video call) before the edited recording hits your podcast devices later in the week.

Please join us at 7pm GMT (9pm in Finland), where you can help contribute messages and tweets using the hashtag #FFS2 - see what we did there?

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See you then!

Finnish football mugs

I saw a tweet this week which seemed to strike a chord with me and one of my more recent hobbies. Since my first visit to Finland with Mrs ETS in 2008, we've been picking up a few Arabia Moomin mugs, also finding a few places that sell them in London. The collection is quite big (but not as big as Suvi's).

Well duh. Football fans are geeks and they keep memorabilia including programmes. @pwaltari @EscapeToSuomi https://t.co/Qd2iDSi5BK

— Egan Richardson (@EganRichardson) December 8, 2015

Egan has mentioned on several occasions that a lot of people, including foreign visitors, would buy and keep various items of merchandise, especially mugs. I own a couple of mugs (KuPS, SJK, HJK) but thought it'd be nice to see what else is out there. So I asked on Twitter, and got some tremendous replies.

Here they are.

@EscapeToSuomi Just refilled my #FcInterTurku mug. pic.twitter.com/AVpmrJEQe4

— Samppa Haapio (@Samppa_Haapio) December 9, 2015

AC Oulu, thanks to Heikki Mertaniemi

HIFK, thanks to Henrik Fagerström

@EscapeToSuomi this beauty. pic.twitter.com/JUnZBaq7QH

— Jari Tuovinen (@jarituovinen) December 9, 2015

@EscapeToSuomi Mug of @FCVaajakoski pic.twitter.com/a1JvNTcQDp

— Kalle Kemilä (@kkemila) December 9, 2015

This exclusive hand painted mug is my favourite. @EscapeToSuomi pic.twitter.com/bAJvwfP8hF

— Viktor Enbacka (@Enbacka) December 9, 2015

@EscapeToSuomi A cup of coffee at the office tastes so much better when consumed in my Marko Myyry mug. pic.twitter.com/NLxeS3RxCX

— Pedro T (@Pedro_T1000) December 9, 2015

VPS, thanks to Johanna Keturi

As you can see, there's plenty of choice available - now to start buying...