Seeing all these huge teams come to little Bodo is amazing but, of all of them, I like least to lose to Tromso. It is a rivalry as curious as it is passionately contested, with the two clubs lying some 300 miles apart, such is the vastness of the Norwegian north.
I think it's an amazing evening for the club, for the players, for the town and also for Norwegian football. We are not talking about goals, we are talking about how to perform and how we can take steps and develop the players and the team. Now I think that's extremely important. We have our way to do it, and that's really important.
Eirik Horneland has emerged as a leading candidate for the manager's job at Aberdeen. The Norwegian is a free agent after leaving the position of head coach of French Ligue 2 club Saint-Etienne last weekend. Prior to his two years in France, the 50-year-old had three successful years in charge of SK Brann in his homeland. He secured a second-place finish in Norway's top division for Brann after getting them promoted and also won the Norwegian Cup with them.
I played for Lyn, the best team in Oslo, in the late 1960s. You would open the newspaper and see adverts: We have an apartment for rent, but not for people from the north.' You felt disgusted to see it.
