Aye, that'll be the oil annat! ****ing Norwegians haven't had any **** for years. Used to be Rosenborg, but no **** these days
To be honest, I could be completely wrong. But I would say the Eastern European teams are getting into the group stages more than the Scandinavians are. OPINION
Don't **** with me squeaky, I'm a race car in the red now mother ****er Nah, I was only messin', you know I'm right about the football. There are teams from Belarus etc in the group stages before the scandies, so, I am correct
The situation is more complicated in Norway (population 5m) but still very prosperous. Only just last week TV2 (a free-to-air station) bought out the sports wing of loss-making pay-TV channel C More and it remains to be seen what will happen there in future. In the last round of deals, the two channels paid a total of 1.6bn Norwegian krone (around £135m, £34m per year) to show live matches from the Tippeligaen for four seasons of summer football from 2013 to 2016. That sum is expected to fall when the time comes for the next round of negotiations with reduced competition in the market due to C More's removal from the picture but will likely still dwarf what is on offer in Scotland.
You can watch 3pm kick off EPL games in Norway too in fact it's more popular than their own domestic League.
Rupert Murdoch can't sell the SPL as a product to enough people especially without the Old Firm derby .
