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Maybe it will be worth an own thread about us Norwegian Fans, where we can share stories etc. with all of you guys!

I've tried to post some old pictures, but doesn't seem to get it right...

 :sherlock:

I can see it fine.

Some more pictures from back in the days

1: Oh Shaun Taylor and me in 1993
2: The Swindon Town Supporters Club with Bernt and myself presenting Paul Bodin with our Player of the Year award: A plate with an Norwegian Troll painted on it hehehe!  :eek:
3: Visiting the training in 1993/94
4: Postcard to the fanclub from Jan Aage when he was at the club.
5: A Swindon Town-stand we arranged outside our national arena ULLEVAAL in 1992 or 1993.
6: From our training ground visit in 1993/94

Enjoy! :D

When was the last time you were over for a game NR?

kjempe fint bilder!

You need to spruce up on your spelling RP

The Dunbar Club..that brings back memories!

Have you got a ticket Norway Red?

Pullen: Last time I was over was in january 2008 at the away game vs. Luton Town. We won 1-0 thanks to a Christian Roberts goal!

Sonic Youth: Cheers!

De er veldig gode.

Ohh Shaun Taylor: Yes, the five of us norwegians have got our tickets - well, at least we've paid for them. Will pick them up at Wembley on match day! :D

Can you do that?  ???

so does anyone recognize these chaps from "The Glue Pot" New Years Eve 1993?

I blame the iPhone... Still getting used to it.

Apologies all.

4D: Yes, we can do that. But it's for foreigners only - since we can't have the risk of not getting them in time by mail. So I reckon all of the people heading for the Wembley Ticket Office at Saturday will all be foreign fans, then!  ::)

Be interesting to see how many different places people are travelling from for this.

Brilliant Norway Red. I salute you and your compatriots arriving for the game  :clap: Are you going for a beer before the game?

[sarcasm] No, I would say there's no possibility of that whatsoever [/sarcasm]

shady: Cheers! We're arriving at Heathrow saturday morning, and will be in quite a rush to get to the hotel and then to Wembley to pick up the tickets. Who knows if we manage to stop for a cold one before the game, but we're definetly having one after the game - hopefully in celebrations!  :beers:

You could get some cans in a carrier bag and have them outside Wembley. I plan to do that but i'm a bit cautious of all them Millwall fans who are going to be doing the same thing.

we need to get the club to do a pre-season tour of norway!

Sonic Youth: Now that would be a great thing! I've wanted them to come to Norway for a pre-season for years. I remember in the early or mid-90s Swindon Town were in Finland for pre season a summer or two - but I wasn't able to go there.

Do you remember more norwegians than Jan Aage Fjørtoft in Swindon?

I remember two local acquaintances were at Swindon Town on trials after getting the contact information from our fanclub in the 90s. The two guys never made it, but they were young at the time - 16 or so - so I guess it was much for fun.

In the late 90s I also think Jarle Wee was at Swindon on an unsucessful trial.

A few other scandinavians have been at Swindon in around year 2000 - both Kim Heiselberg (Denmark) and a Finn who used to play in Tippeligaen for Tromsø were at the club - unfortunatly!  :doh:

I can't think of anyone else at the time... David Hay was of course assistent manager in 93/94 after being Lillestrøms manager in the late 80s - getting them a league championship in Norway, but due to boring football the attendances went down even when they won gold medal!   ???

Ah Kim Heiselberg and Markko Tuomela.

What a quality pair of players!

Yep Jacko's there, that is very funny.

Ooh and i think that's mr Burns half hidden.

You've just been appointed president of the pressure group. I've not been yet and was looking to go this summer, but it was about 2k, and i could go to NZ for that. If i had a reason to sell to the missus, that would seal it.

might be a problem given the norwegian football season runs through the summer...

Norway Red, if I see you on Saturday I'll definitely buy you a beer...

What does it say on the postcard from Fjortoft? Particularly the printed bit under his name?

They must have a break? Isn't it -80 or something then?

Dont know, but i bet there's a few skips outside in a day or two.

My mum used to take me there all the time. There can't be many employers that lay on a free social/leisure club for their employees these days!

i think it's motor drivers something assocation

Should be the pilots' association

I have been to the Ullevaal Stadium, NorwayRed - it was my first ever England away game. I am sure you remember it as you beat us 2-0, and it was just a few days after Swindon beat Leicester in our last Wembley appearance (that was an eventful week). Paul Gascoigne was particularly fat at this time and England were a disgrace, just hoofing the ball from everywhere for Alan Smith to flick on to nobody in particular. We had a fantastic time in Oslo though - I just remember that all the locals were very drunk (all day) and very happy - a brilliant atmosphere.

I didn't see a Swindon Town stall, but what I did see outside the ground will probably live with me forever - there were some proper sexy girls, really attractive - TITS OUT - being pushed around the streets ON A BED, & HANDING OUT PORNO MAGAZINES TO THE ENGLAND FANS. I swear that this happened.

Mr Fitton/Mr Watkins - if you're reading this, perhaps you'd consider........

 :D Great that some of the guys on the Glue Pot-photo is finally identified!

Sonic: Yes, the norwegian season runs from april to october (this year they started march because of the WC-break) - but they usually have a three-four weeks break in July - so there would be room for a pre-season tour then!

COYR!

Me and my missus at the Leyton Orient match (her first in England).
And me in one of the greatest shirts ever at the stadium of my local team, IK Start.  The groundsman (from Watford) is a friend of mine and he celebrated his birthday last September by inviting 11 friends to a crossbar challenge, Soccer AM style.  As we are merely amateurs, we kicked the ball from approx 30 meters out, not the halfway line.

The potato print shirt.

You legend!

Great pictures, Berswin!

That great, green away shirt brings back good memories of terrible shirt design  8)

I saw the weather forecast today, and it was drizzle and light rain in London saturday.  :badmood:

Great seeing all the old shots.  I know a few people on here will recognise the guys in the Glue Pot photo.  (As I said in the PM, NorwayRed, you will probably see a few familiar faces on Saturday if you get a chance to meet up.)

My only experience of Norwegian football came about 7 or 8 years ago when I was visiting Tromso in June with some old school mates for a Midnight Sun/beer weekend.  (OK, so the beer cost at least £5/pint - even back then - bad planning.)  Tromso were not playing that weekend, but Tromsdalen (or TUIL), the team from just over the bridge on the mainland were.

It was a Second Division game against a side from Oslo.  The fans were nutters!  What really stands out for me though was the stadium (which I now think has been replaced, sadly).  It was an open ground surrounded by mountains on three sides and a fjord on the fourth.  Absolutely stunning scenery.  And great weather as well...bizarrely, I managed to catch a little too much sun that day - which is fairly impressive considering were inside the Arctic Circle at the time.

No idea what the score was.

loving the potato shirt! Great pics – I hope your trip is worth it NR!

It's great to get a feeling of how passionate you guys are for the Town.

Hope you have a great day on Saturday, and that you get a chance to come back & watch the Town in the championship next season.

PS. I like the green potato print shirt, I remember wearing it to watch a Sheff Weds game in Luxembourg many moons ago :D

Have a fantastic day on Saturday all you Norway Reds. That goes for all fans coming in from abroad.

WE SALUTE YOU ALL.

Thanks for all the positive response  :D

It will be great to see Swindon at Wembley and I hope all you Swindonians have a great day too.  Lets hope they can continue their 100% victory statistic.

You guys are fucking ace. Much better than sonic, our in-house plastic viking :D

:(

hehehe

Cheers mates! I think Sonic Youth does a good job as a stand-in Viking!

I hope everyone will have a blast come saturday!

Hopefully we'll catch up with some of you there!

COYR!

i've eaten lutefisk, dammit! that's not the sort of thing a plastic viking does.

[url width=663 height=830]http://forum.i3d.net/attachments/offtopic-english/943170674d1242525452-picture-yourself-plastic-viking.jpg[/url]
And you know you are ....

that's a swede paul, you plastic scouse

Whatever. This better?

[url width=798 height=417]http://www.warandpeacegames.com.au/images/new-miniatures/gp_vIKINGSJPG.jpg[/url]

yup, now i'll take offence again

:(

Good-oh

[url width=600 height=400]http://www.shopatnorway.com/images/690002-vikinghat%20large.jpg[/url]

How about these silly hats...

Well our 3 kits this year have been red, white and blue, so I think the club shop could be onto a winner if they start stocking them!

More pictures from my STFC database:

1: Every crazy sod should have his STFC beanie! Here is Norway Red not just looking like a retard, but acting as one as well  :yikes:

2: Bernt (berswin) posing with Ady Viveash back in 93/94!

3: Myself as a 15 year old i 1992, with a friend who I started the fanclub with. He is also still an avid STFC-fan but couldn't travel with us because of a death in near family.

4: Andy Mutch, Craig Maskell and NorwayRed in 1993.

5: Jan Aage doing a pose!

and of course: My 4 months old daughter - dressed in S T Y L E! :D

That is truly fantastic.

great pictures!

fair play Norway Red, great to see.

Like that..thaught it was Phil Smith at first.

Nice picture.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Brilliant, really hope you enjoy your day and we get back into the second flight. It's been a bloody long time in the footballing wilderness. Swindon Town have taken us to so many highs and lows.

I still have that hat from the first pic .

you guys are the bollox (this is good) and I suspect have a place in all the tef'ers hearts.

I've scanned some old pictures from the same trip.

1: Me and my all time favorite player Shaun Taylor (yes I voted for him at the Advertiser's all time Swindon team)
2: Me and Nick Summerbee, Adrian Viveash and Andy Mutch
3: Me and John Gorman (who thought all the Norwegians were so tall)
4: Me and John Moncur

I have an important question for the norwegians. Are all norwegian women fit? There are a few on my course, and they are all fiiine

The majority of Norwegian and Swedish girls are fit as a fiddle  :clap:

I've also got a photo of me and a childhood friend who's a Stockport supporter.  I bought him this shirt as a birthday present this atumn.

Probably two of the worst designed shirts ever.  And we wear them proud!

yes they are.

except the orange skinned blonde ones.

Great pictures, berswin!

The two shirts are really good FK Fotball-material!

We have a number of fine looking Finnish girls over in Lux.

 :D John Gorman used to look proper Portuguese.

Hell's teeth, they're shockers. That Stockport one should carry a health warning - it could cause eplilepsy.

The following report contains flash photography and a Stockport shirt....

You guys definitely need to get youselves a Norwegian flag with Swindon town printed on it, for your next trip over. Make yourselves known!

We concidered bringing a larger flag to Wembley (2,5mx1,5m), but thought it would be a bit over the top and that it might be received wrong (like "we're only supporting now when Swindon are at Wembley").

The next time we travel to Swindon, we'll bring the largest one and we'll get some print on it :)