Josh Wicks and Mason Trafford both featured in IFK Mariehamn's big win over MYPA, while Etchu Tabe and RoPS continue their disappointing season.

Josh Wicks manned the nets for Mariehamn as they fought back for a point against MyPa while Jeremy Vuolo notched yet another shut-out as AC Oulu came out winners in their local derby.

Tosaint Ricketts (UW-Green Bay) is poised for his first tournament with the Canadian national team.

The FC Politehnica Timişoara forward, who has earned both of his career caps in the past four months, was announced as part of coach Stephen Hart's 23-man roster for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

I may be putting the cart before the horse a bit here, but there seems to be some worry about the extremely early start our squad will have to endure if we make it to the Europa League. Yet upon further examination, I wonder how many of the First XI, if not XVIII, will even be needed until August.

Did you miss NFN's three-part Veikkausliiga preview? Don't worry, you can find it here, just click on the linka. Part I -Part II - Part III.

Nordic Football News has once again brought you the most definitive Veikkausliiga preview concievable. Now for the final part, our standings prediction.

And so we move to the not-so-business end of the table, the rear. It promises to be quite a battle, since so many clubs have been forced to cut costs amid financial turmoil.

You can find the rest of NFN's Veikkausliiga preview here, just click on the links. Part I – Part II – Part IV.

The 2011 Veikkausliiga season kicks-off in two months so let's not waste any time trying to make up witty introductions to the ever so fascinating world of Veikkausliiga transfer tittle-tattle and instead, mimicking the transfer market behaviour of most Finnish top tier teams, the Merry-go-round is just going to plunge in among the transfers news and take any piece it can get its hands on.

When you go for a Sunday stroll around the Finnish transfer circus at this time of the year, in this bleak financial and meteorological climate, you would expect to see a sad merry-go-round sitting stranded in the cold, transfer ponies buried under five feet of snow, emptiness echoing in the absence of laughter, shrieks of joy and the sound of little feet of transfer rumours scampering merrily around the ride.

When you go for a Sunday stroll around the Finnish transfer circus at this time of the year, in this bleak financial and meteorological climate, you would expect to see a sad merry-go-round sitting stranded in the cold, transfer ponies buried under five feet of snow, emptiness echoing in the absence of laughter, shrieks of joy and the sound of little feet of transfer rumours scampering merrily around the ride.