Myleftboot Posted Thursday at 22:21 Share Posted Thursday at 22:21 Anyone see how Saint maximin did tonight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted Thursday at 22:40 Share Posted Thursday at 22:40 (edited) 2 hours ago, Disco said: Bodo and/or Glimt 2 hours ago, Joelinton7 said: a bunch of vikings that can’t even decide what to call themselves No-one asked, but my personality type won't allow me to not explain Bodø/Glimt's weird name The club was formed as "FK Glimt" in the early 1900s when football was still mainly played regionally, not nationally, in Norway - which was fair enough given the vast distances to travel during a time when mass transportation mainly took place by boat However, a few years after after WW2, Norway got its first national league pyramid and it became known that a club from the Trondheim region also had the name "FK Glimt", and were formed before the Bodø team with the same name. So they changed their name to "FK Bodø-Glimt" to differentiate the teams, them changing their name even though being the "bigger" club was simply due to respecting the fact the other club called Glimt were named so first. Including the hyphen was to ensure people remember saying both words when referencing the club, as "Bodø" and "Glimt" are both two other, independent, clubs. HOWEVER As betting on football became increasingly popular in Norway, the third and final change to their name took place; changing "FK Bodø-Glimt" to "FK Bodø/Glimt". Now, one might ask oneself "why bother making such a small, seemingly unnecessary, change to their club name"? The reason was as simple as it's genuinely a bit dumb; when you bet on football matches, your betting slip used hyphens to differentiate between the home and away sides, so they changed the "-" to "/" so there'd be less confusion at the bookies when bets were placed on matches that seemingly were played by three teams, for example "Bodø-Glimt-Rosenborg" Edited Thursday at 22:42 by Kaizero Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted Friday at 00:39 Share Posted Friday at 00:39 1 hour ago, Kaizero said: No-one asked, but my personality type won't allow me to not explain Bodø/Glimt's weird name The club was formed as "FK Glimt" in the early 1900s when football was still mainly played regionally, not nationally, in Norway - which was fair enough given the vast distances to travel during a time when mass transportation mainly took place by boat However, a few years after after WW2, Norway got its first national league pyramid and it became known that a club from the Trondheim region also had the name "FK Glimt", and were formed before the Bodø team with the same name. So they changed their name to "FK Bodø-Glimt" to differentiate the teams, them changing their name even though being the "bigger" club was simply due to respecting the fact the other club called Glimt were named so first. Including the hyphen was to ensure people remember saying both words when referencing the club, as "Bodø" and "Glimt" are both two other, independent, clubs. HOWEVER As betting on football became increasingly popular in Norway, the third and final change to their name took place; changing "FK Bodø-Glimt" to "FK Bodø/Glimt". Now, one might ask oneself "why bother making such a small, seemingly unnecessary, change to their club name"? The reason was as simple as it's genuinely a bit dumb; when you bet on football matches, your betting slip used hyphens to differentiate between the home and away sides, so they changed the "-" to "/" so there'd be less confusion at the bookies when bets were placed on matches that seemingly were played by three teams, for example "Bodø-Glimt-Rosenborg" Lovely synopsis. Mine was a little tongue in cheek. I’ve actually been up the hill to their ground. Alas no magic door for a poke about during my extremely short stay in ye olde Bodo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted Friday at 05:50 Share Posted Friday at 05:50 3 hours ago, Disco said: Lovely synopsis. Mine was a little tongue in cheek. I’ve actually been up the hill to their ground. Alas no magic door for a poke about during my extremely short stay in ye olde Bodo. From a purely geographic standpoint, I can never truly wish Bodø/Glimt well, whatsoever*. That said,I can't really deny having experienced some joyous emotions from being able to witness a Norwegian team regularly qualify for the group stage in a European competition AND not ending up just making complete fools of themselves for six straight matches before crashing out of Europe, finishing bottom of their group! Been far too long since Rosenborg were regulars in the CL from the mid-90s to the mid-00s, our league isn't great, but neither is it as shit as our teams have pretended like it is when playing in Europe Putting the rest of the post in a spoiler as I ended up going off on a loooong rant about football rivalries and culture in Northern Norway, as well as football's status and history in my hometown compared to Bodø - then realized where I was about to post that very specific rant about non-Newcastle/English football and concluded that it might just be interesting enough for someone with enough hipster-esque football club interests like Disco to bother reading, and even then I'm not even sure it's interesting enough for Disco * This might make no sense for most of you due to how compact England is geographically compared to Norway; but Bodø are essentially my hometown's "Sunderland" when it comes to local/regional rivalry. Regardless of if it's cultural, political, sporting or any other happenstance where feelings of local/regional rivalry would be naturally present, I just can't be happy for Bodø if something positive happens to that town Me saying it might make no sense for most of you is because it takes around the same time to drive from my hometown to Bodø as it takes for you to drive from Newcastle to Birmingham, which couldn't exactly be defined as a "local rivalry" between neighbouring towns through an English geography-lens After Bodø the closest towns of any significance to my hometown would be like... Narvik and Tromsø. Those cities would be our Middlesbrough(s) when it comes to the sense of "local" rivalries. What counts as "local rivals" in Norway is vastly different to what English people would say qualified, as driving to Narvik from my town would take an hour longer than driving from Newcastle to Southampton, and Tromsø two hours longer than driving from Newcastle to Plymouth Used to follow Rosenborg a fair bit in my teens without any feeling of guilt about it, even though the drive there would take two hours less than a drive to Tromsø. The difference between feeling a sense of rivalry with Tromsø, but not Trondheim, is simply the fact that Trondheim isn't a part of "Northern Norway", so that automatically disqualifies Rosenborg being considered "local rivals" What makes even less sense, though, is the fact that my hometown has never had a team higher up in the Norwegian league pyramid than the 2nd highest tier, and even then it only lasted two seasons in the mid-90s. So that, and a team getting to the semis of the cup in the early 80s, are the only things of note my town has managed in football - so you'd think feeling happy for Bodø/Glimt shouldn't be a problem. My town and Bodø being comparable in population size and being located in the general vicinity of each other on the map of Norway has driven a massive wedge between the towns historically, though, as Northern Norway never used to be a priority for the Oslo-based government/monarchy when it came to distributing money from the annual national budget - which meant that if Northern Norway were to get some money for shit that wasn't related to the fishing industry, only one of the two would be getting money for it. It can be blatantly seen today by the fact Bodø has had money to cultivate sport, yet you'll struggle to find any art/culture-related shit in Bodø - with the opposite being the case for my town, which might be the most active theatre/art/music scene in Northern Norway, yet we have no teams anywhere the top in any kind of sport The fact a town with our population size insisted on continuing having two clubs that were equally as good as each other end up splitting local sponsorship money, fans and talent until the locals finally got their act together and forced the clubs to relinquish their spots in the professional league pyramid and only exist as "amateur" clubs. This because they refused to "fuse" into a single club and join all their funds, property and such under one banner, instead agreeing to both withdraw from league football as their way of "backing" what would be a newly formed team with a name not referencing any of the, then, former professional clubs in town. The club highest up in the pyramid handed over their registration and league status to the newly formed club, with both clubs issuing statements saying they backed the town focusing on a single professional football club so the best talent could be funneled into that club instead of being split between the former two clubs, as well as one club being the main focus for local sponsors/rich uncles wanting to financially back them. I'll forever maintain the opinion that it was the dumbest possible choice out of all the available choices at the time, as fusing the two clubs into one club would mean that the new club wouldn't be starting from scratch when it came to stadium ownership, available funds and all that jazz - which they ended up doing, even though they got a head start in the league pyramid from being handed their spot in it from one of the former clubs 😩 That was all the way back in 2017, which means it took six years for the new club to become a club that actually functioned as it naturally took years to get a youth setup in place, cultivate financial partnerships and do the hardest possible thing for any football club; grow a fanbase... if the two other clubs just fucking fused together and through that got wiped out of existence, fans of the former clubs would be left little to no other choice than jumping ship to the new team if they wanted to watch football being played at any decent level without having to drive three to four hours to, out of all fucking places, Bodø This season the club finally won promotion to the third tier, taking six fucking years to go from the fifth tier to the third when it should have taken them just two, had the other two clubs just fucked the fuck off for good instead of continuing to drip poison into the town footballing well Have to say I'm proud of the fact the club has managed to successfully build a fanbase larger than the past two clubs had, combined, in that time though - as well as cultivate sponsorships and get an amazing youth system set up in that amount of time too. The club averaged the 35th highest attendance in Norway, which might not sound like a major feat, but they played in the fourth tier and only one team in the third tier averaged a higher attendance - and the club in the fourth tier that bettered them did so only by 9 people on average, and is a historically successful club that's "just" suffered a bad decade after fucking up their finances playing in the Norwegian top division for years - as well as having around 15k more people available population wise. The 2025 season will be a "kingmaker" type season, so it's exciting times. If the club fails at competing for promotion to the 2nd tier, the project might as well throw in the towel as support will wane without any return on the locals time investment and financial support will likely dry up as well as there's "bigger" clubs with actual history playing in the 2nd tier, so without success on the pitch it's not likely that the club will be able to go into the season with the highest budget of all 28 clubs in the 2nd tier However, a successful season could propel the club into actually becoming a competitive club in Norway in the next couple of years as Bodø/Glimt would be the only "local" rivals geographically. The only other full-time professional club in Northern Norway is Tromsø, the closest full-time professional club, if looking southward, are based in Trondheim. In short, that means there's both actual space for a "third" fully professional club in the region both when it comes to available talent and financial sponsors. Big fan of the simplistic logo as well: Now, some of you might feel the sculpture on it looks familiar... which it should, as it was made by the artist that also made The Angel of the North three years after he made that statue for our town - which, when comparing the two statues, kinda feels like he clicked "copy/paste" on our town's statue and just slapped on a pair of wings on the exact same statue and just gave it a different name Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sibierski Posted Friday at 07:41 Share Posted Friday at 07:41 11 hours ago, leffe186 said: Not paid any attention, is there anyone in there who might give them a game? Every matchup of theirs I’ve seen so far has been a bit of a joke. Not for me. Fiorentina closest challenger, but would need to be a one off game in final. The gap from Chelsea to rest just laughable, even if they end up being a turmoil 2nd half season, so many attacking players who can just bluster their way past weak defences. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemtizz Posted Friday at 19:49 Share Posted Friday at 19:49 PL or hatewatch, hmmm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fak Posted Friday at 19:55 Share Posted Friday at 19:55 4 minutes ago, nemtizz said: PL or hatewatch, hmmm Brighton game will be one sided. Surely the Sheffield game is more of a contest Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fak Posted Friday at 20:00 Share Posted Friday at 20:00 Turning into a right big tubby bastard that keeper in nets for Sunderland. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyCisse Posted Friday at 20:10 Share Posted Friday at 20:10 Mackems plan to have non of the ball? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie Ahmed Posted Friday at 20:18 Share Posted Friday at 20:18 7 minutes ago, RodneyCisse said: Mackems plan to have non of the ball? Show some respect to a team that could give Milan and PSG a game Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie Ahmed Posted Friday at 20:28 Share Posted Friday at 20:28 Mackems get a penalty, was some good play tbf Turning this off Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie Ahmed Posted Friday at 20:28 Share Posted Friday at 20:28 That Jack Robinson is utter shite Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fak Posted Friday at 20:29 Share Posted Friday at 20:29 Saved! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie Ahmed Posted Friday at 20:29 Share Posted Friday at 20:29 Glad I didn't turn it off, missed, lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie_b Posted Friday at 20:29 Share Posted Friday at 20:29 Probably should have been a red Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted Friday at 20:30 Share Posted Friday at 20:30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted Friday at 20:30 Share Posted Friday at 20:30 That's a great header from Mitoma Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted Friday at 20:31 Share Posted Friday at 20:31 Lovely goal from Brighton. Mitoma header from a Lamptey cross. Slack defending from Southampton as per usual. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted Friday at 20:31 Share Posted Friday at 20:31 Brighton score. Urgh, wish they’d just fuck off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted Friday at 20:31 Share Posted Friday at 20:31 1 minute ago, geordie_b said: Probably should have been a red Saudi Mags bribed the ref marra Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemtizz Posted Friday at 20:35 Share Posted Friday at 20:35 These 2 CBs are dreadful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie Ahmed Posted Friday at 20:35 Share Posted Friday at 20:35 How are Sheff Utd top of the league? They are shite Sunderland have been the better side Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted Friday at 20:35 Share Posted Friday at 20:35 Switched over to the red and white stripes derby. Seen 3-4 awful tackles in less than 5 minutes like going back in time. A bit like going to sunderland. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted Friday at 20:36 Share Posted Friday at 20:36 Do Sheffield United only have 3 players on the pitch? Absolutely fucking no one anywhere. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie Ahmed Posted Friday at 20:39 Share Posted Friday at 20:39 Oh dear, Mackems down to 10, lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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