Marlon Harewood has an added interest as the Intertoto Cup campaign gets underway today - the striker could be set to renew rivalries with Finnish side TPS Turku.

Turku face Northern Irish side Lisburn Distillery in the first round later today, starting the trail they hope will lead to a third round clash with Villa next month.

That would mean a trip down memory lane for Harewood, who enjoyed a successful loan spell in Finland at FC Haka just before making the grade with Nottingham Forest.

The former West Ham man, who helped Haka to a league and cup double in 1999, said: "When I heard we could be going back there I was quite excited, it must be five years since I last went, maybe longer.

"Obviously times have changed so I don't know what they will be like there now. The side I was with, FC Haka, were a very good team. We won almost every game we played in.

"I enjoyed my stay there, it was very good. I went there in the close season, when our season in England finishes their season starts so the manager Dave Bassett asked me to do a favour for him to go and get some experience so I said 'yea, I'll go'."

He continued: "The standard over there is quite like our Championship.Players that go over there are from all over the place.

"They have a few Finnish players but you get a lot of Russian players, Swedish players and quite a few former internationals."