Marked for Patrick Berg
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings14 Oct 2030
A defender's afternoon for Patrick Berg
Defensive actions: 32. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad14 Oct 2030
Youssef Maziz: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bodo/Glimt have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market14 Oct 2030
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andreas Helmersen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bodo/Glimt the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Oct 2030
Jens Petter Hauge was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings14 Oct 2030
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Oct 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Haikin, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Oct 2030
30 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings14 Oct 2030
Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings14 Oct 2030
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.84 on the card, and the Bodo/Glimt support went home talking about one name.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match19 Sep 2030
Chastening afternoon for Bodo/Glimt
A 0‑3 beating by Sparta Prague was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match23 Sep 2030
50 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
A defender's afternoon for Patrick Berg
Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market23 Sep 2030
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bodo/Glimt they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 Sep 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
A performance of 8.93 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
Marked 8.85 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad23 Sep 2030
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings9 Sep 2030
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market9 Sep 2030
Patrick Berg wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Bodo/Glimt hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad9 Sep 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Sep 2030
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad9 Sep 2030
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad9 Sep 2030
Defences have started doubling up on Camilo Durán
5 goals and a season average of 7.37 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Boardroom9 Sep 2030
Nobody left the Bodo/Glimt dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad9 Sep 2030
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Bodo/Glimt lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Player ratings9 Sep 2030
Shots: 5, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match26 Aug 2030
43 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings26 Aug 2030
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market26 Aug 2030
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bodo/Glimt they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad26 Aug 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Aug 2030
66 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Defences have started doubling up on Odin Bjørtuft
5 goals and a season average of 7.35 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings26 Aug 2030
Marked 7.99 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Bodo/Glimt had the best player on the pitch.
Squad26 Aug 2030
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market19 Aug 2030
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bodo/Glimt they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Jens Petter Hauge was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad19 Aug 2030
86 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad19 Aug 2030
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Bodo/Glimt know it.
Player ratings19 Aug 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.28, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match17 Aug 2030
A 2‑1 win over Odd, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings19 Aug 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.63, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings19 Aug 2030
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Aug 2030
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Johannes Linaker Jenssen, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match10 Aug 2030
3‑0, and Camilo Durán took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Bodo/Glimt tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad12 Aug 2030
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bodo/Glimt may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market12 Aug 2030
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bodo/Glimt, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market12 Aug 2030
The offer from Molde for Tom Strannegård was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad12 Aug 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Aug 2030
A performance of 9.74 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings12 Aug 2030
A performance of 9.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad12 Aug 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jalal Abdullai, and the manager let it.
Market12 Aug 2030
The name of Oleksandr Saputin has come up in conversations Bodo/Glimt were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match29 Jun 2030
Still nobody has beaten Bodo/Glimt
The unbeaten run reaches 17. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match1 Jul 2030
33 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad1 Jul 2030
315 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad1 Jul 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings1 Jul 2030
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings1 Jul 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match29 Jun 2030
It finished 2‑0, and it was Camilo Durán’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bodo/Glimt.
Squad1 Jul 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ola Brynhildsen, and the manager let it.
Player ratings1 Jul 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match8 Jun 2030
Whatever happens, Bodo/Glimt do not lose
14 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market10 Jun 2030
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bodo/Glimt they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market10 Jun 2030
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bodo/Glimt heard it as anything else.
Squad10 Jun 2030
Jens Petter Hauge was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings10 Jun 2030
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings10 Jun 2030
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 23 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings10 Jun 2030
Marked 8.94 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match8 Jun 2030
Stromsgodset made Bodo/Glimt work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings10 Jun 2030
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match25 May 2030
6 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings27 May 2030
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 27 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad27 May 2030
Jens Petter Hauge was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match25 May 2030
Sarpsborg 08 made Bodo/Glimt work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings27 May 2030
A performance of 8.72 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad27 May 2030
38 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings27 May 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.48, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings27 May 2030
A defender's afternoon for Odin Bjørtuft
Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad27 May 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexey Ploschadny, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings20 May 2030
Defensive actions: 45, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings20 May 2030
Defensive actions: 29. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad20 May 2030
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bodo/Glimt have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match18 May 2030
Nobody wants to play Bodo/Glimt right now
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad20 May 2030
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad20 May 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings20 May 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.68, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings20 May 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad20 May 2030
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match8 May 2030
A 1‑0 win over Mjondalen, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings13 May 2030
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 32 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad13 May 2030
Jonas Svensson: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bodo/Glimt have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market13 May 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bodo/Glimt is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match11 May 2030
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings13 May 2030
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 26 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad13 May 2030
Jens Petter Hauge was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings13 May 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.24, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad22 Apr 2030
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings22 Apr 2030
Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad22 Apr 2030
54 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad22 Apr 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings22 Apr 2030
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match20 Apr 2030
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Bodo/Glimt did not have in the autumn.
Squad22 Apr 2030
The manager makes an example of Jalal Abdullai
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings22 Apr 2030
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings22 Apr 2030
Marked 7.94 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Bodo/Glimt had the best player on the pitch.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match11 Mar 2030
64 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market11 Mar 2030
The offer from Stabaek for Tom Strannegård was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market11 Mar 2030
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bodo/Glimt, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market11 Mar 2030
Patrick Berg wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Bodo/Glimt hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad11 Mar 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Mar 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Damjan Đoković commits to Bodo/Glimt for another 1 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market10 Dec 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bodo/Glimt, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Sandro Kulenović: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bodo/Glimt have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market10 Dec 2029
Patrick Berg wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Bodo/Glimt hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad10 Dec 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Dec 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Fredrik Sjøvold and Bodo/Glimt agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Dec 2029
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad15 Oct 2029
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad15 Oct 2029
Defences have started doubling up on Jens Petter Hauge
10 goals and a season average of 7.66 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad15 Oct 2029
80 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad15 Oct 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings15 Oct 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.79, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings15 Oct 2029
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match13 Oct 2029
Still nobody has beaten Bodo/Glimt
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match13 Oct 2029
A 3‑1 win over Molde, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings15 Oct 2029
Marked 9.12 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match8 Sep 2029
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 25 matches without defeat is a foundation Bodo/Glimt did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
Defensive actions: 32, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market10 Sep 2029
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bodo/Glimt heard it as anything else.
Market10 Sep 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bodo/Glimt is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Jens Petter Hauge was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad10 Sep 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Defences have started doubling up on Ola Brynhildsen
5 goals and a season average of 7.28 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match1 Sep 2029
Still nobody has beaten Bodo/Glimt
The unbeaten run reaches 24. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market3 Sep 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bodo/Glimt, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Defences have started doubling up on Odin Bjørtuft
9 goals and a season average of 7.73 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market3 Sep 2029
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bodo/Glimt heard it as anything else.
Market3 Sep 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bodo/Glimt they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad3 Sep 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Sep 2029
The medical room confirms 144 days on the sidelines for Vladimir Screciu, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings3 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Sep 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Haikin, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match11 Aug 2029
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match11 Aug 2029
Nobody wants to play Bodo/Glimt right now
6 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Defensive actions: 27, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market13 Aug 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bodo/Glimt, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market13 Aug 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad13 Aug 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sondre Auklend and Bodo/Glimt agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Jens Petter Hauge was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.74, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Marked 9.34 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings6 Aug 2029
A defender's afternoon for Patrick Berg
Defensive actions: 43. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market6 Aug 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bodo/Glimt, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match4 Aug 2029
Nobody wants to play Bodo/Glimt right now
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Market6 Aug 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad6 Aug 2029
285 appearances across 10 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Bodo/Glimt know what they have.
Market6 Aug 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bodo/Glimt they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad6 Aug 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match4 Aug 2029
Three points for Bodo/Glimt, 1‑0 the final word against IK Start in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings6 Aug 2029
Marked 8.49 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad23 Jul 2029
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market23 Jul 2029
The chase for Matija Subotić ended with $3.3M changing hands and Lokomotiva Zagreb out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad23 Jul 2029
The medical room confirms 146 days on the sidelines for Fredrik Bjørkan, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market23 Jul 2029
As if he never left: Elias Hagen returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Elias Hagen is a Bodo/Glimt player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad23 Jul 2029
8 goals and a season average of 7.70. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad23 Jul 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match21 Jul 2029
Nobody wants to play Bodo/Glimt right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings23 Jul 2029
A performance of 9.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match21 Jul 2029
A 2‑0 win over Valerenga, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match14 Jul 2029
Still nobody has beaten Bodo/Glimt
The unbeaten run reaches 17. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match11 Jul 2029
A 2‑0 win over Mjondalen, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
Defensive actions: 28, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad16 Jul 2029
Jens Petter Hauge was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad16 Jul 2029
7 goals and a season average of 7.64. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
Marked 9.65 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match14 Jul 2029
Aalesund made Bodo/Glimt work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match2 Jul 2029
33 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match30 Jun 2029
Still nobody has beaten Bodo/Glimt
The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
Defensive actions: 33, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Jens Petter Hauge was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match30 Jun 2029
Three points for Bodo/Glimt, 1‑0 the final word against Molde in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
A performance of 8.39 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
Marked 8.12 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad2 Jul 2029
4 goals and a season average of 7.44. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match23 Jun 2029
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Bodo/Glimt did not have in the autumn.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings25 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Jun 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings25 Jun 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.74, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Defences have started doubling up on Odin Bjørtuft
6 goals and a season average of 7.54 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings25 Jun 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings25 Jun 2029
A performance of 8.67 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match23 Jun 2029
It finished 1‑0, and it was Odin Bjørtuft’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bodo/Glimt.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match9 Jun 2029
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Stromsgodset, and it could have been more.
Market11 Jun 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bodo/Glimt can pretend not to have heard.
Match9 Jun 2029
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Bodo/Glimt did not have in the autumn.
Market11 Jun 2029
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad11 Jun 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings11 Jun 2029
Marked 9.41 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings11 Jun 2029
A performance of 9.35 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad11 Jun 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Haikin, and the manager let it.
Player ratings11 Jun 2029
A performance of 8.80 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings7 May 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 32 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings7 May 2029
Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market7 May 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bodo/Glimt can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings7 May 2029
A defender's afternoon for Odin Bjørtuft
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad7 May 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Håkon Evjen and Bodo/Glimt agree another 4 years.
Match5 May 2029
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bodo/Glimt have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad7 May 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings7 May 2029
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 May 2029
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market30 Apr 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bodo/Glimt can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Jens Petter Hauge was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
A defender's afternoon for Patrick Berg
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
Marked 8.96 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match28 Apr 2029
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ole-Didrik Blomberg. 2‑0 against Sandefjord, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market30 Apr 2029
The Håkon Evjen story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Håkon Evjen signs something — a contract at Bodo/Glimt or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings23 Apr 2029
A defender's afternoon for Patrick Berg
Defensive actions: 37. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad23 Apr 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Apr 2029
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings23 Apr 2029
A performance of 9.37 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match21 Apr 2029
Three points for Bodo/Glimt, 1‑0 the final word against IK Start in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings23 Apr 2029
A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad23 Apr 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Bassi, and the manager let it.
Squad23 Apr 2029
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Bodo/Glimt are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad23 Apr 2029
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings9 Apr 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 29 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad9 Apr 2029
Gianni Stensness: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bodo/Glimt have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market9 Apr 2029
Mjondalen come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Bodo/Glimt did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad9 Apr 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Apr 2029
Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market9 Apr 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market9 Apr 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market9 Apr 2029
The shirt still fits. Bjorn Singh is back at Bodo/Glimt, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Player ratings9 Apr 2029
Marked 9.75 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market5 Mar 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bodo/Glimt can pretend not to have heard.
Market5 Mar 2029
Rosenborg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Bodo/Glimt did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market5 Mar 2029
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad5 Mar 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jens Petter Hauge and Bodo/Glimt agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Jens Petter Hauge was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Mar 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristopher Fiermarin, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match25 Feb 2029
Chastening afternoon for Bodo/Glimt
A 1‑4 beating by AZ was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market26 Feb 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market26 Feb 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bodo/Glimt, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market26 Feb 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Haitam Aleesami will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bodo/Glimt the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Feb 2029
9 goals and a season average of 7.65. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad26 Feb 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Feb 2029
The manager makes an example of Patrick Berg
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad26 Feb 2029
12 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.
Boardroom26 Feb 2029
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jan 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad1 Jan 2029
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Bodo/Glimt have had the benefit of it.
Market1 Jan 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bodo/Glimt they have already started talking about him in the past tense.