From our football correspondent
Steady
Match7 Nov 2026
Bodo/Glimt do the business in Europe
1‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Bodo/Glimt came through the finding-out well against Sparta Prague.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 28 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 5 of the 23 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Patrick Berg in a row with a teammate
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.
Match5 Nov 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Odin Bjørtuft at his very best
Marked 8.54. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bodo/Glimt.
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Steady
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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 ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 8.90 — 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 Nov 2026
6 goals and a season average of 7.43. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ola Brynhildsen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
Match31 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
9 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
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Steady
Match24 Oct 2026
Bodo/Glimt do the business in Europe
1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Bodo/Glimt came through the finding-out well against Sparta Prague.
Match26 Oct 2026
Bodo/Glimt refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 24 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad26 Oct 2026
There were 6 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Market26 Oct 2026
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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Bodo/Glimt and Lillestrom, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Andreas Helmersen at his very best
Marked 9.77. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bodo/Glimt.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andreas Helmersen. 4‑2 against Lillestrom, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Magnus Bech Riisnæs is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Bodo/Glimt training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Berg is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jens Petter Hauge, and the manager let it.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
8 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
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Crisis
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Mathias Grundetjern was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.00. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andreas Helmersen, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Bodo/Glimt training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ola Brynhildsen is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Mathias Grundetjern 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Bodo/Glimt
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Patrick Berg keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Bodo/Glimt say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Shots: 5, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Steady
Match3 Oct 2026
2‑2 against Chaves, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Mathias Grundetjern was at the centre of the description.
Match3 Oct 2026
4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A brace, and Fredrik Sjøvold takes the afternoon — 9.10
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Fredrik Sjøvold provided it, and the 9.10 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 10.00 — 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Bodo/Glimt training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Berg is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match1 Oct 2026
Galatasaray left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 37 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bodo/Glimt will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match28 Sep 2026
Bodo/Glimt are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 18 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Patrick Berg falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Håkon Evjen at his very best
Marked 9.35. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bodo/Glimt.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Håkon Evjen
6 goals and a season average of 7.46 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match26 Sep 2026
Bodo/Glimt keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
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Upbeat
Match19 Sep 2026
Bodo/Glimt do the business in Europe
0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Bodo/Glimt came through the finding-out well against BATE.
Match16 Sep 2026
Sandefjord are out and Bodo/Glimt go through, 4‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.57, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 5 of the 22 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Isak Määttä
Defensive actions: 25. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Patrick Berg 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
23 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Upbeat
Match12 Sep 2026
3‑0, and Håkon Evjen took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Bodo/Glimt tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bodo/Glimt will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match12 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Bodo/Glimt do not lose
9 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 25 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market14 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Patrick Berg falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Jens Petter Hauge at his very best
Marked 9.47. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bodo/Glimt.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Håkon Evjen at his very best
Marked 9.37. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bodo/Glimt.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Match5 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
30 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Bodo/Glimt do not lose
8 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Bodo/Glimt training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Berg is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Odin Bjørtuft was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.55. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 9.43 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Jens Petter Hauge was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.30. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Julian Faye Lund will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bodo/Glimt the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Still nobody has beaten Bodo/Glimt
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Sarpsborg 08 will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Carljohan Eriksson has pre-agreed a move to Bodo/Glimt, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Patrick Berg gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Bodo/Glimt training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ola Brynhildsen is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.95. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Upbeat
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.90, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Bodo/Glimt training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Berg is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match22 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Håkon Evjen gets it from the manager
“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 ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.66 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.46 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
IK Start are out and Bodo/Glimt go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 35 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market17 Aug 2026
The chase for Mathias Grundetjern ended with $1.3M changing hands and Valerenga out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Helsingborg for Julian Faye Lund 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Metalist will make the call about Fredrik Sjøvold this week. Bodo/Glimt have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Patrick Berg falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 9.02 — 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“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.
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Triumph
Market10 Aug 2026
Shakhtar pay $9.8M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $9.8M sale of Kasper Høgh
He is going to Shakhtar, the club has $9.8M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market10 Aug 2026
FH 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Patrick Berg and Bodo/Glimt agree another 4 years.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Bodo/Glimt and IK Start, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 4‑2 win over IK Start, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Ola Brynhildsen at his very best
Marked 9.37. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bodo/Glimt.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
43 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
301 appearances across 15 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Daniel Bassi at 21 — 8.16
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Daniel Bassi did not need any: 8.16, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Bodo/Glimt have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nikita Haikin commits to Bodo/Glimt for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.