Then it’s time for the big Europa League night in Bodø. The Glimt players gather at Aspmyra before the match, freshly combed, rested and battleless. The Tottenham players also freshly combed, but not so rested after a flight almost to the North Pole and a night filled with fireworks as greetings from parts of Bodø/Glimt’s merry group of supporters. Before the game, there are the usual statements from both clubs that “this will be a tough match”, “the opponent is very strong”. Spurs star Mickey van de Ven offers an analysis that still catches our attention.
Because when Roma, Besiktas, Porto, FC Twente or Lazio have come to Aspmyra, the big clubs play their football. Van de Ven has realized, as the statistics show, that this is not enough at Aspmyra, spiced up with Bodø’s capricious and exotic weather conditions.
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“We’re going to play on artificial turf, it’s cold, and they have a very good team,” begins the Premier League’s fastest player, clocking in at 37.1 km/h.
“We hope that we will do a better performance (than Lazio) and be more Bodø/Glimt,” says the Spurs centre-back.
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Be more Bodø/Glimt…
Ouch, sounds like the right recipe. We hope this doesn’t spread to the rest of the Tottenham team, and that they rather continue “as normal” when they run out onto the artificial turf in front of the yellow horde and think this is a normal game, against an opponent they think they know after the game in London.
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