Would love a bit of Cherki tbf. An actually fun footballer in the premier league would be real nice.
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Match The Bodø Affair: The Mighty Tottenham vs Bodø/Glimt of Nordland - 2000hrs 1st May 2025 - UEFA Europa League Semi Final Leg 1
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Would love a bit of Cherki tbf. An actually fun footballer in the premier league would be real nice.
He's dynamite. One of the best players I've ever seen in the flesh.
Carl Froch once beat George Groves at Wembley in front of 10 times as many people.
But it's a little known fact, the Cobra barely talks about it.
Bilbao are 4th in La Liga, only lost 4 games out of 31. The final is at theirs. They have Nico & Inaki Williams...both a real handful. Oihan Sancet is quality too. Defo the best team out of the 4 still in the tourney.
To me, Bilbao are the clear favorites.
We are going to finish 17th, win the Europa League and sack the manager.
I dont think home advantage will count for much if the tickets are split evenly and Uefa and corporate wankers fill the remainder.
They have to beat Man U first. Who are quite good in a cup tie. They also have to play at OT second leg.
Amorim has shown he can get results against better teams on the counter.
I would rate us as favourites simply because we have an easier path to the final.
Let's do the business at our plaice first, then we just gotta hope the players all sing the same tuna out in Norway.Definitely fishermen. Bodo is an active cargo and fishing port and also very popular for tourism in taking people out to catch.
Frankly, I’m surprised at the lack of fishing puns in this thread. Maybe it’s too early. As this thread is. We don’t need to get too hooked up with having to tackle the plastic pitch yet.
Beat that lotte and we're on the rod to glory.
Yeah athletic clear favourites for me
If we beat bodo and united cheese their way past athletic in their 2nd leg at old Trafford with the help of the refs. And tobys giant head
Then I think we'll 100 percent do it, zero fear of this united team
Hopefully we are going to score a few in the 1st leg to make the 2nd on the artificial a nice and easy game. Even decent players can find the artificial challenging , remember when we were 3-0 down to Young Boys , seem to recollect Bassong and Dawson struggling to turn on the surface, this was our squad.
01 Gomes
03 Bale
19 Bassong yellow card
20 Dawson
22 Corluka
32 Assou-Ekotto yellowcard (Huddlestone 36)
12 Palacios
14 Modric (Kranjcar 46)
09 Pavlyuchenko
17 Giovani
18 Defoe (Keane 66)
Substitutes
23 Cudicini, 04 Kaboul,06 Huddlestone, 07 Lennon, 21 Kranjcar, 10 Keane, 15 Crouch
01 Gomes
03 Bale
19 Bassong yellow card
20 Dawson
22 Corluka
32 Assou-Ekotto yellowcard (Huddlestone 36)
12 Palacios
14 Modric (Kranjcar 46)
09 Pavlyuchenko
17 Giovani
18 Defoe (Keane 66)
Substitutes
23 Cudicini, 04 Kaboul,06 Huddlestone, 07 Lennon, 21 Kranjcar, 10 Keane, 15 Crouch
Sure Ryan air will love that in overhead lockers coming back!
If we're to win it, gotta say it'd be even more special to beat those northern cunts in the final.
Get Pedro Mendes to hand them their losers' medals.
Re : Home advantage .
Their players will be in their own homes eating a delicious and nutritious home-cooked dinner with their families.
Our lot will be in a swanky hotel eating under re-heated lasagna : it’s who we are mate .
Good fight!
Don’t worry about who we could possibly get in the final. If we get Bilbao it’ll still be 50/50 fans.
Let’s worry about Bodo, they’ve got enough to embarrass us and we need to be on our game
Let’s worry about Bodo, they’ve got enough to embarrass us and we need to be on our game
Regardless of whether it's 50/50 fans, Bilbao will know the pitch very well and will still feel like it's a 'home' game. Familiar surroundings, no travel etc etc.
I agree about Bodo, they're the form team left in the competition, on a plastic pitch. They are more than capable of scoring at our place too.
They're also one tie away from an unprecedented European cup final, which is huge for them I'm sure.
People on this forum are treating them like the walkover that they certainly are not, especially with the form we're in.
The UEFA club rankings have us at 32nd and Bodo at 42nd, so they're not a million miles off our perceived ranking.
Not sure why anyone would be daft enough to think that any team we meet in a semifinal of a European cup competition would be a pushover?