It certainly wasn’t a bad start for our three Nordic World Cup 2018 representatives in the opening round of fixtures over the past few days. All three teams scored and none lost with two one-nil wins and a 1-1 draw. Argentina Favourites On The Betting Apps But Iceland Deliver On The Pitch First up on […]
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I’ll be honest, I actually have no idea but thought I’d best look into it for myself and of course you. I do remember there was a discussion about it six or seven years ago about how to improve European international football but then hadn’t heard much since. They have now come up with something I guess, […]
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Italy head over to Sweden this week so they can face off against each other on Friday night in easily the biggest tie of the four European World Cup 2018 playoff games. Some other nations will disagree but in terms of a so-called “big name” missing on the Russia World Cup next summer then this […]
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With the Zlatan Ibrahimovic “Symbol of Sweden” statue nearly complete along with the continuing speculation around his return to football and possible new contract with Manchester United. I decided to take a quick look at what the legend of Swedish football has already achieved in his short time with the Red Devils and why he […]
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That is correct, in exactly one years time on the 14th June 2018 the Russia World Cup will start with the first game taking place in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. That game will be between the hosts of the tournament Russia and one of the other qualified teams from their group. Could that be Sweden? […]
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English football has long had a sizeable fan-base in Scandinavia, much of which can be traced back nearly half-a-century to when Tippekampen (Norway) and Tipsextra (Sweden) would broadcast a live English game every Saturday afternoon of the season on domestic TV. One of the most popular clubs in the early years were Leeds United, who […]
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They are absolutely ecstatic. That’s right, Sweden last night qualified for the World Cup in Russia next summer. The first time they have reach the finals since the Germany World Cup in 2006 and they couldn’t be happier after overcoming four-time World Champions Italy over two-legs. Coming into the first-leg last week the Italians were the […]
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As both Sweden and Denmark failed to finish in top spot of their groups to reach the World Cup finals automatically. They both still do have a chance of being in Russia next June though as they now both have home and away fixtures after the World Cup play off draw to see if they […]
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Well it may come as no surprise that Jesper Blomqvist has gone into media punditry most recently, but unbeknown to me when I recently looked him up “Jesper Blomqvist let’s dance” came up on Google. That’s right folks, earlier this year he took part in Let’s Dance, the Swedish dance competition version of the UK’s […]
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I watched a documentary recently all about I.F.K. Gothenburg, the once European “giants” of the nineteen eighties, they are also know officially as Idrottsforeningen Kamraterna Goteborg, but whatever happened to this once successful team? As most of you will know, they are a professional football club from Sweden, but if you’re of a certain age […]
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