Adrian J's List: BBC

• Finnish summer sports and pastimes owe something to all of these things. The telecoms industry, the natural environment - and the country's gimmicky eccentric side.
• The winner usually gets a bottle of cheap vodka and envious looks from their rivals. (Finnish people are quite competitive.)
• (the urge to pick the boot up and throw it being, quite obviously, irresistible).
• It generates the same emotional behaviour. Every once in a while violence raises its ugly head. Players have been taken to hospital with nasty bruises or missing teeth.

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