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🇳🇴 I wrote something personal on why I was drawn to Norwegian football, and how grateful I am for the impact it has had on both my life and my career.
Expect lots of mentions of Ronny Johnsen and Tromsø IL.
Takk, alle sammen!
Josh Butler
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Josh Butler
@JoshisButler90
Senior writer/social media @thesefootytimes. Find me in: @guardian_sport, @worldsoccermag, @nplhmag, @wsc_magazine. Sometimes I speak Norwegian. United and TIL.
- Rio Ferdinand on Ødegaard’s assist: “You can’t give a locksmith like that the keys.” What? The whole point of a locksmith is they don’t require the fucking keys 😂
- The whole point of the handball law was to differentiate it from rugby football. You’re not supposed to manipulate the ball deliberately with your hands. The ball flicking your fingertips as it is smashed at you from two yards away isn’t fucking handball.
- Replying to @JoshisButler90 and @FootballFactlyHis name is also Tjåland. Fuck me, is any part of this tweet accurate 😂
- Fuck Mason Greenwood then, now and forever. A rapist and a domestic abuser that never saw justice is not someone to venerate.
- Replying to @FootballFactlyHe doesn’t play for Brann and he actually scored all those goals in youth matches for Bryne.
- Worst and funniest.
I keep thinking about this, but what is genuinely the worst performance by a Premier League player ever? Like a 0/10, nothing good at all and overall unforgettable performance for the wrong reasons. - For people who don’t have a vested interest in Norwegian football, the manager of my club (Tromsø) has just agreed to become the assistant coach (assistant!) of their biggest rivals Glimt, and he’s taken our best defender with him. Absolute madness.
- Replying to @TransferintelWhy would anyone want to focus solely on his footballing ability when he’s such a horrific human being?
- “Cities you’ve probably never heard of” Starts with the second biggest city in Norway 😂
- Julian Alvarez’s career path is just always playing second fiddle to an enormous Norwegian striker.BREAKING: Man City and Atletico Madrid have agreed a deal for Julian Alvarez for up to £81m 🚨
00:00 - Those two Norwegian lads writing and performing a godawful song just to ruin Sweden’s chances in Eurovision is elite shithousery.
