36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stromsgodset lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
He is going to Lillestrom, the club has $4.8M 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.
Lillestrom pay $4.8M, 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Jesper Taaje 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stromsgodset this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The words a physio says slowly. 43 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Molde have kept their man, and Stromsgodset go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
$1.0M on the table at Stabaek. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Sory Diarra 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.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Morten King is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick Thorsby has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
51 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Stromsgodset lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
“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 Feb 2027
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesper Taaje 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.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Isac Tostrup-Kval trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Fredrik Ardraa signs something — a contract at Stromsgodset or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Doncaster Rovers did not take him to make up a number: they want him playing. For Alie Conteh that is worth more than another season of watching from Stromsgodset's bench, and everyone involved has said so out loud.
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Oliver Petersen plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
In brief
SquadBent Sørmo is the talk of the training ground
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Plymouth Argyle waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Stromsgodset is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Sory Diarra and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesper Taaje 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.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Stromsgodset know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Marcus Mehnert has written the date down.
Sory Diarra and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Silalahi 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.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The offer from Istra 1961 for Elias Hoff Melkersen 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.
Sory Diarra 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.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Victor Dedes and Stromsgodset agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Jesper Taaje 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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alie Conteh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Add another name to the list: Istra 1961 have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Elias Hoff Melkersen. The answer from Stromsgodset has not changed — yet.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesper Taaje 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.
Bent Sørmo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Alie Conteh has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Elias Hoff Melkersen is on it.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alie Conteh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stromsgodset they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mads Eikrem Myklebust is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stromsgodset, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Silalahi 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.
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesper Taaje 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.
Nobody at Stromsgodset will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Stromsgodset could ask drops and the wages Kreshnik Krasniqi can ask rise.
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Kent-Are Antonsen has written the date down.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager plants his flag on Ole Enersen
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kreshnik Krasniqi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stromsgodset the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Stromsgodset know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Nobody at Stromsgodset will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Stromsgodset that is a harder question to answer.
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Bent Sørmo’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gustav Wikheim and Stromsgodset agree another 2 years.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stromsgodset this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Elias Hoff Melkersen is on it.
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Aleksander van der Spa is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Silalahi 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.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stromsgodset is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Stromsgodset. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Simo Lampinen-Skaug trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stromsgodset they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Sory Diarra and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Jesper Taaje 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.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Marcus Mehnert has written the date down.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kreshnik Krasniqi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stromsgodset the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Bent Sørmo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesper Taaje 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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kreshnik Krasniqi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Stromsgodset know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Samuel Silalahi is on it.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marcus Mehnert will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stromsgodset the goodbyes have quietly begun.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stromsgodset this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fredrik Ardraa and Stromsgodset agree another 5 years.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Stromsgodset that is a harder question to answer.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stromsgodset they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesper Taaje was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Sebastian Pingel is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Stromsgodset, another week without a signature from Jesper Taaje.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ole Enersen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stromsgodset the goodbyes have quietly begun.
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.04 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Gustav Wikheim. 2‑1 against Sandefjord, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Sandefjord. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jesper Taaje 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Lars Pedersen kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stromsgodset is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Sory Diarra 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.
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
10 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.
It needed Elias Hoff Melkersen to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against IK Start, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Samuel Silalahi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stromsgodset they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stromsgodset this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Stromsgodset can tell you which week it ends in.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gustav Valsvik, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesper Taaje 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.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gustav Valsvik will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stromsgodset the goodbyes have quietly begun.
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Gustav Valsvik has his answer from Stromsgodset; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastian Pingel, and the manager let it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Lars Pedersen left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Jesper Taaje's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stromsgodset, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
SquadSamuel Silalahi falls out with a teammate over standards
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stromsgodset is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stromsgodset this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Kreshnik Krasniqi has his answer from Stromsgodset; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stromsgodset, and both men came out saying it was fine.
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Bodo/Glimt? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stromsgodset is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Gustav Valsvik 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.
Minute 92, against Lillestrom, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
It needed Elias Hoff Melkersen to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Lillestrom, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stromsgodset, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Lars Pedersen chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stromsgodset is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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.
It finished 2‑1, and it was Sory Diarra’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Stromsgodset.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesper Taaje 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.
Nobody at Stromsgodset will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Elias Hoff Melkersen had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
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.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stromsgodset they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Gustav Valsvik has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jesper Taaje 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.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Kent-Are Antonsen has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Marked 9.92 — 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.
Add another name to the list: Hobro have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Elias Hoff Melkersen. The answer from Stromsgodset has not changed — yet.
Sory Diarra and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Marked 8.73 — 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.
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Stabaek tried to reorganise, Stromsgodset did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stromsgodset they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The offer from Haugesund for Ole Enersen 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.
Stromsgodset asked and Monza said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
A performance of 8.29 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jesper Taaje 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.
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
The terraces17 Aug 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.” 7 of the 26 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 7 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Mattias Lamhauge and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Amar Diagne has, at Stromsgodset, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$350.0K settles it between the clubs for Sory Diarra
Haugesund have accepted the money. What Stromsgodset do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Stromsgodset had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Sporting CP, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mattias Lamhauge and Stromsgodset agree another 3 years.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stromsgodset this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The phone has started ringing about Fredrik Ardraa again, and this time the name on the line is Stabaek. Stromsgodset are listening politely and promising nothing.
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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pogon have kept their man, and Stromsgodset go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
16 seasons and 422 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Viking have kept their man, and Stromsgodset go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
8.46. 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.
In brief
SquadWords at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work