At the risk of sounding like everything I do is related somehow to Norway, I’m in the latest edition of @worldsoccermag.bsky.social where I interviewed Viking joint-managers Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim and Morten Jensen about their title-winning season and why they work so well as a duo.

Bergen, du var fantastisk ❤️🤍

Jeg var i Bergen for tre dager hvor vi fikk litt regn, («det er ikke mye regn» sa @inedesiree.bsky.social.) Nå er jeg tilbake i England og himmelen er grå. Regnet har fulgt meg 🥲 vennligst fuck off!

New profile pic, hu dis?

Fantastisk helg i Bergen med fantastiske folk og fantastiske venner. Enorm seier mot Brann. Bilder kommer snart men første ja må spiser min Maccies 😂

Tre deilige poeng.

Top of the league ❤️🤍

Veldig imponerende prestasjon i dag. Enormt. For en seier! Jens Hjertø-Dahl er en gud blant menn.

Jens Hjertø-Dahl. Hat-trick hero.

«Finn en mann som ser på deg slik @mkillingberg.bsky.social ser på Jens»

De nye draktene er 😘🤌🏻

Vi er tilbake! 🔴⚪️

Bruno Fernandes is the only post-Fergie player that gets near a Ferguson side. He’s just that fucking good.

Bath City 🤝🏻 TIL

Gave a well-earnt debut to my blink-182 × TIL stickers at Ashton Gate yesterday 🫡

Jeg er selvsagt partisk, men det finnes ikke et eneste land i verden som har tre bedre spisser enn Norge. Haaland, Sørloth og Strand Larsen er dødelige.

I’ve watched Bath four times this season. Seen them score twice, concede seven and win once. I’m off to see them again Tuesday and I can only apologise for the horrific bad luck that accompanies me 😂

As disappointing as last night was, we should be mindful of the fact we are third under Carrick, that’s his first loss and, quite frankly, we aren’t the first side to struggle against a low block this season. City, Arsenal and Liverpool have all turned to set pieces to break down stubborn sides.

Tyrell Malacia?

Cunha has really struggled today. Looks laboured and has given the ball away a lot. Surely time for Amad soon.

If you missed the print version, my story of when I watched the Arctic Circle Derby between Bodø/Glimt and Tromsø is now available online. Ft. interviews: @gundersons.bsky.social, Ruben Yttergård Jenssen, Thomas Drage, @gnistveien.bsky.social & Runar Norheim. www.worldsoccer.com/world-soccer...

Liverpool are a deeply unserious and hilarious football club. It’s wonderful.

Iran er kvalifisert for VM i gruppe G og skal spille i Seattle og Los Angeles. Nå blir de bombet av vertsnasjonen på ordre fra vinneren av FIFAs fredspris. You can’t make this shit up.

At this point, the only thing I like about the USA is the music, and even then the bands I enjoy tend to complain vociferously about how shit life in that country is.

Benjamin Sesko is a proper big bastard number nine. Get yer fucking head on that, son.

Honestly, above all else fuck the USA and fuck Israel.

Hei! Jeg skriver masteroppgave om norske fotballsupporteres opplevelse av VAR i Eliteserien. Undersøkelsen er anonym og tar ca. 5–8 min. Svarene vil bidra til å synliggjøre supporternes perspektiv i utviklingen av VAR. Jeg setter stor pris på om dere vil dele videre. nettskjema.no/a/opplevelse...

I’ve watched the Sesko goal about two dozen times now. The pace, the finish. It’s lovely. But the ball from Mbeumo is delicious. It looks so easy but to put it *exactly* into Sesko’s path so he doesn’t have to break stride is gorgeous.

Start 👏🏻 Benjamin 👏🏻 Sesko 👏🏻 every👏🏻 game👏🏻

I’m an avid Manchester United fan that grew up in the ‘90s. There’s not a force on this earth that can convince me there’s ever existed a better goalie than Peter Schmeichel. So I wrote about him for the latest edition of @thesefootballtimes.shop in the most glowing terms possible.

Jeg skal til Bergen i mars. Her i England har det regnet hver eneste dag i år. Jeg tror ikke jeg får se solen igjen før juni.

I’m not naive enough to have thought some Tory billionaire tax dodger was a good person by any stretch, but Jim Ratcliffe outing himself as a massive Faragesque, immigrant-demoniser is sickening.

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The problem with supporting United is you have to share the space with some of the most attention-seeking weirdos on the planet.

It feels like all of Sesko’s goals for us have been one-touch or two-touch at most. As Ole Gunnar always attests, it’s such a vital skill for a striker to get an effort away before a defender can react.

Feel sorry for West Ham there. Thought we were very pedestrian up front and defended their goal appallingly. They were compact, hit us on the break a few times and it has taken a lovely Sesko finish to nick us a point.

Luke Shaw has had a shocker there but how have Mainoo and Casemiro allowed Soucek to just stroll past them onto that cross? Dreadful all round.

I think this is the kind of game where you get Amad off at half time for Sesko, isn’t it?

Big day for all the enjoyers of 6 seconds of men running around between adverts.

For all of Man City’s intricate and frankly boring play, they’ve scored from just lumping a ball into the box for a 6’4” Norwegian to win a knock down. Football is healing.

“The technique these modern players have developed in the last ten years,” intones Gary Neville as Sky shows a replay of Szoboszlai scoring a freekick exactly like Juninho Pernambucano was doing 25 years ago.

If you like Leeds Utd. And why wouldn’t you? And you like nice things. You should absolutely purchase the Leeds edition of @thesefootballtimes.shop next week. Or regret it forever #lufc

Jeg spiller med TIL i FM24, det er 2029 og vi kvalifiserte oss for Champions League fordi vi vant ligaen, men det betyr at troppen min må kommer tilbake fra ferien på Dec 24 for preseason. Vegard Erlien kom tilbake og sa «nei, jeg er skadet, gaffer» 😂😂😂

95th-minute winner, is it?

Diogo Dalot trying to cross a football.

Følger litt med på hva Nypan får til i Boro og det er jaggu ikke mye. Skulle vel til Championship for å spille, men det har blitt benken og noen korte innhopp. Boro gjør det bra og har retning Premier League, men Nypan bør kanskje finne seg noe annet? www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/footba...

That’s how you do it City, you absolute shower.

Enorm fotballkveld i dag 😍