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« Reply #15 on: Sunday, May 30, 2010, 20:30:47 » |
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you can sleep on my sofa if you bring a six month supply of brunost
haha! Then you'll be the second foreigner I'm bringing brunost. The first one was David Lynch!  |
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Ran the fanclub: Swindon Town Supporters Club of Norway between 1992 and 1998. Now runs the non-commercial online website for Norwegian Swindon-fans.
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NorwayRed
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« Reply #16 on: Sunday, May 30, 2010, 20:31:45 » |
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Pre Match Photo from where I sat:
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« Reply #17 on: Sunday, May 30, 2010, 20:33:28 » |
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brunost is the best thing ever. no surprise that the great auteur david lynch likes it too.
i got dizzy just looking at that photo.
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« Reply #18 on: Sunday, May 30, 2010, 20:38:51 » |
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David ate big chunks without bread, like it was some delicate french dessert cheese. He said it tasted like butterscotch !
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Ran the fanclub: Swindon Town Supporters Club of Norway between 1992 and 1998. Now runs the non-commercial online website for Norwegian Swindon-fans.
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berswin
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« Reply #19 on: Monday, May 31, 2010, 15:51:48 » |
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It was a great experience to see Swindon play at Wembley, and we'll come back to see them play again.
My missus liked the trip as well, some due to the football and some due to shopping in London on Friday. Even if the trip cost me around 1000£ (I bought the trip for her), I'll be back for more.
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« Reply #20 on: Monday, May 31, 2010, 15:54:24 » |
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Glad you enjoyed it. Hope she made it worth your while  |
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berswin
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« Reply #21 on: Monday, May 31, 2010, 16:08:29 » |
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Glad you enjoyed it. Hope she made it worth your while She did in a very generous way  |
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« Reply #22 on: Monday, May 31, 2010, 17:07:59 » |
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Fair play to all you Norway reds. Show some of the locals what it's like to really support a team.
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Is your cat making too much noise all the time?
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« Reply #23 on: Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 21:49:22 » |
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Impressed with you guys & girls, & it's good to have you in our 'family'.
Also your use of the word 'missus' makes me smile - I thought that was just an English slang thing.
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« Reply #24 on: Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 22:59:10 » |
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Brilliant effort.
Apologies for the awful atmosphere - It was the worst i've ever experienced at a town match. It's not normally like that
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berswin
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« Reply #25 on: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 07:47:09 » |
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It beat the atmosphere at any matches for my local team IK Start who are in the Norwegian Premier League.
I've been to a few matches in England from Macclesfield-Hartlepool with 1700 spectators to ManUtd-Everton at Wembley with 90.000 spectators and there haven't been a particular better sound level at the PL-matches either.
At San Siro last easter, 55.000 AC Milan supporters were so silend, so you would probably be able to hear a bird fart during the match.
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« Reply #26 on: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 08:04:12 » |
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Berswin - if only you'd been at Charlton on May 17th!
We (the fans) are beating ourselves up at the moment about our collective failure to create proper vocal backing for the team at Wembley. But what we're forgetting is that just weeks before we did a great job in both legs of the semi finals (comfortably out-singing Charlton on both occasions). The night at the Valley is one of the best I can remember in recent times. Electric atmosphere.
We can do it...it just didn't work out on Saturday.
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« Reply #27 on: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 08:15:14 » |
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I watched both matches at tv in Norway (a football pub in Kristiansand has almost all available football-channels) and I totally agree with you. My experience is that there seems to be a louder crowd at away matches as there are more supporters and fewer spectators, in contrast to home matches where the numbers are opposite. And when 30.000+ supporters travel to Wembley, many are not used to sing their hearts out for the team and expects to be entertained rather that participate in generating an atmosphere. It sucks, but it happens all over the football-world  |
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« Reply #28 on: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 11:25:22 » |
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I watched both matches at tv in Norway (a football pub in Kristiansand has almost all available football-channels) and I totally agree with you.
It was better at the valley than it sounded on TV. They put the microphone in front of the Charlton fans. i agree with you, away games are always better for vocal support. |
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« Reply #29 on: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 12:11:31 » |
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the noise from the town fans completely drowned out the charlton fans when i watched it on telly
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