My biggest wish if this is going to be a thing is that the sin-bins are placed near the corner spot. Just so the ref can tell players to “GO SIT IN THE CORNER!” or say “Time for a time-out in the corner young man!”

To steal from a norwegian commentator - the beauty of football is the unpredictability. Within those 90 minutes a game lasts everything can happen. You never know. You might be going to a mid-season game on a rainy day in Stoke, everything set for a dull evening but then both teams performs as if it was a Champions League final, someone pulls out something spectacular and you have witnessed something you will remember for a long time.

And it stretches beyond single games also. I am a norwegian, been a supporter of Bodo/Glimt since 1993. It was almost 30 years of hurt and disappointment, several relegations and almost bankruptcy. Then slowly the club started becoming good, won their first league title in 2020 and won their third this year. That they managed to become the biggest club in Norway was totally unbelievable as late as 2016.

Marius Lode against Kristiansund.

Bodo/Glimt was on the course to win their first ever league title. Late in the season, struggling against Kristiansund. 1-1, 5 minutes left. Corner, gets cleared and Marius Lode comes up with the Mother of all volleys.

He currently has 269 matches at senior level, only scored 1 goal. But that goal won the Best goal of the year-award.

We will get an asian winner when Fifa changes the rules so that Saudi can buy players for the National team.

I heard an expert talking about this. According to him in soccer it is not enough to have the best player, it is more important to not have the worst. In international football every team knows the strength and weaknesses of the other teams, and they are sure as h*ck going to attack that weak spot.

Yes, Norway have Haaland and Ødegaard but we don’t have many decent defensive players. And that is why we lose again and again.

Subbing off Haaland wasn’t the problem there. Norway wasn’t trying to score another goal. The problem was taking off Patrick Berg and Fredrik Aursnes. Norway plays 4-3-3 with Berg and Aursnes being 2 of the 3 midfielders. So Solbakken basically removed the midfield and put on 2 players that don’t have any defensive qualities.

As a norwegian I am at least grateful that we already are out of the qualification, would be more pissed if we actually had anything to play for against Scotland.

Red Dead Redemption. Both 1 and 2. Westerns have never been my thing. These games feels so slow and sluggish. I love open world games, but never felt much for riding my horsey around for hours doing boring chores.

It’s all fun and games until Saudi finds a way to buy all the good players and make a decent “national” squad.

She also took the stage in a FIFA congress last year holding this speech. She is not messing about.

Declaring one player to be “The best” is impossible, there are so many different roles on a soccer pitch and so many different skills required.