Nordic Football News

Aalesund win and reach historic cup final

A goal from that biggest of big men Tor Hogne Aarøy was enough to ensure that the final of the 2009 Norwegian cup will be a local derby, but like the first semi final the result was somewhat overshadowed by a moment of superlative stupidity..

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Norwegian cup finally gets interesting

Having given the Norwegian cup a deservedly wide berth so far due to the relentless tedium of the thing, the quarter finals were so jam-packed with incident that NFN can no longer ignore it. Like a kind of weird uncle in the Norwegian footballing family, the 2009 Norwegian cup has gone from annoyingly dull to [...]

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Norwegian Cup, round 1: Big dogs cruise through

Norwegian teams are off on the road to Ullevål after a first round that was like a footballing equivalent of a Harry Potter-convention: Plenty of belief, but no actual magic to be found. 

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