Merchandise at Wembley Stadium?

[NorwayRed]

haha Sonic Youth. That is me to the left - as a 16 year old kiddo in 1993 in RED and to the right is a good friend Svein Erik - also a member of the original Swindon Town Supporters Club of Norway and he travelled to Swindon with some mates and I in october 1994!

Welcome Berswin as well, let's try to be more active towards the british fans here on thetownend.com! We've got to pick up the tickets at Wembley, so we have to meet right up when we arrive at the ground saturday!

Also, as Bernt (Berswin) also says:

Being a Swindon-fan in Norway is quite exotic. Lots of people support smaller british teams (like Stenhousemuir, Woking etc.) but honestly most kids today in Norway support Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal. The National TV doesn't broadcast english matches on the Public Channel anymore, so it's not the growth of british football team fans today that it was 20 years ago.

I drink from my Swindon Town FC-cup everyday at work, and my colleges are equally amused that I follow Swindon and not a "big" team everytime the conversation pops up!

NorwayRed

[Colin Todd]

I fucking love the Norweigan reds, they're hardcore.

Have a great day saturday lads

[berswin]

how do you guys find the atmosphere at this level of football compared to tippeligaen? i've been quite surprised when i've watched lillestrøm, the noise was non-stop for 90 minutes. the fact there is still terracing at åråsen seems to help a lot.

The atmosphere varies a lot at Norwegian matches.  As a result of the tv-deal, 2 matches are moved to Sunday 8pm and Monday 9pm (normal kick-off is Sunday 6pm) and these two matches are often "local derbys".  As the derbys in Norway can mean the clubs are 3 hours by car in distance (it a looong country with few cities), the result is that less fans travel and watches it free on the tv.

My opinion is that there is a better atmosphere at English grounds in general (count out the Macclesfield-Hartlepool match I attended) and that there are more groups of people who start the singing and chanting, opposed to in Norway where you have one group of supporters who sing and many spectators who aren't that vocal.  But as I wrote, it varies a lot and sometimes you could hear a bird fart during the match and sometimes it's noicy all the way.

[sonicyouth]

the two lsk matches i've attended couldn't have been more different... the first was a derby against vålerenga and the second was more recently against hønefoss. nevertheless, the atmosphere was pretty good in both games. i wasn't expecting it at all.

obviously the travelling supporters are far fewer, even hønefoss who are relatively close to lillestrøm bought less than 200 fans to åråsen. the fans are obviously very influenced by spanish and italian football with plenty of colours, flags, flares and the dreaded drum. there's been some issues at lsk matches recently with casuals clashing with ultras, so perhaps it's moving towards a more english style.

i've noticed that there's a lot of coverage of english football in norway, so it doesn't surprise me that people think you're a bit odd. pondus is probably a good example of most norwegian's attitude to english football, isn't it?

there's a tiny part of akershus that i've left a very big swindon town mark on anyway.

[nevillew]

there's a tiny part of akershus that i've left a very big swindon town mark on anyway.

A euphemism ?

[Peter Venkman]

Whatever happens on Saturday hope all you Norwegians (and all Swindon supporters) have a bloody great day out with the right result.

Gotta love the scandanavians, as CT says they are hardcore, not glory hunters.

Welcome onboard, its gonna be a hell of a ride over the next few days.

[NorwayRed]

Cheers guys! We will truly enjoy our day out come Saturday!

I reckon my e-mail adress is on my profile here, and also the link to our norwegian fan page - which also Berswin linked to.

I'm also at www.facebook/swindon   


and to Sonic Youth: Why Lillestrøm? That's even more weird than norwegians supporting Swindon, I reckon !

[Samdy Gray]

He has a Norwegian girlfriend.

[Nemo]

On the merchandise front, the range on the online shop now seems to be advertised by Mr Paynter, who looks like he's enoying himself far too much.

[NorwayRed]

Way cool that "The Glue Pot" still exist. Well maybe you guys recognize some of these guys. It's Bernt and me and some other chaps. I think I remember one of them as Paul?

Good memories!

[One F In Fitton]

Is that one of the Chuckle Brothers hiding at the back?

I just wanted to add my WELCOME to you Norwegian fellas. Your posts on this thread made me feel all good inside. We are far from a big club (as I'm sure you know) therefore you rarely hear things like this. As others on here have said, you are completely in tune with what it's all about. I hope you have a fantastic and memorable trip over here.

[Jamiesfuturewife]

Yay my Swindon town specially made temporary tattoos have arrived!!

Ive been completely swept away in the moment and buying tat!

[nevillew]

Yay my Swindon town specially made temporary tattoos have arrived!!

Ive been completely swept away in the moment and buying tat!

Quite literally it would seem.

[Jamiesfuturewife]

 

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Norwayred,

I'm in Oslo for a couple of days next week with work if you and any of your Swindon supporting friends are nearby and fancy meeting up for a beer to celebrate our win all over again!