Monday Night Football – The One with Norwegian Teams: What’s Your Tipple?

Hello and welcome to another episode of Monday Night Football where we will continue to ruin some perfectly good fixtures through the lens of CM9798. Last week we looked across Europe for an upset finding the German league to be the place if you’re looking for an edge of your seat kind of season, but for this week’s episode, we are going to revisit the Norwegian League we created in 2019! We’ll take a look at some fixtures from the up and coming weekend that would have been in the Eliteserien:

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Viking Invaders – Part 2

Rosenborg in the Premier League? The Viking invasion got underway last week and the Norwegian’s are acquitting themselves well in unfamiliar surrounds. How will the winter months work out? Catch up with part 1 here.

Hello and welcome back to Viking Invaders! Last time out we’d bolstered the squad with Norwegian talent and after a strong end of August-September we were hit with an injury to Svindal-Larsen and fell apart, crashing out the League Cup to Stockport. Our away form has been woeful, the travelling from Norway every other weekend taking its toll on the lads. Let’s take a look at the stats so far;

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Viking Invaders – Part 1

KingOfTheRooks is back with a new series! It’s a little known fact that all of the Scandinavian teams are in the CM9798 database so Andrew has got his experimenting hat on. If you’ve ever wondered how Rosenborg would get on in the Premier League, you’re in for a treat…

Hello and welcome to the latest experiment, Viking Invaders!

Rosenborg BK won thirteen consecutive Norwegian titles from 1992 to 2004 and also qualified for the Champions’ League group stages on eight consecutive occasions between 1995-96 and 2002-03. In 1996-97 they reached the quarterfinals, bowing out to Juventus. The question is, how would a team of such dominance cope in the Premier League? Let us find out… (The unfortunate victims to this act of heresy are Southampton who have been demoted to non-league where they will join Rosenborg 2, our B team).

We’ll also look to bring in some of the keenest talent from across the North-Sea to bolster our assault on the Premier League.

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