The Preview That Thinks Playing Nintendo Wii Until Six In The Morning Is Perfectly Acceptable Behavior

..not to mention the kebab-breakfast. Yummy. 

Saturday

Tromsø (3rd) - Molde (10th)

The Norwegian Football Association are none too impressed with the way Tromsø are handling their economy these days, the Northerners were supposed to sell 16 million worth of players this summer to make their numbers add up but instead they kept their players and took up some more loans. They could sort it all out in a jiffy by selling Tore Reginiussen, which is probably what will happen.

Home win.

Sunday

Aalesund (13th) - Bodø/Glimt (6th)

A bit of a must win for Rekdal's relegation-battlers, and at home against a Bodø/Glimt-side who don't have a whole lot to play for you've gotta fancy them to do just that.

Home win.

Fredrikstad (2nd) - Viking (5th)

Viking-captain Nicolai Stockholm has decided to leave the club when his contract expires at the end of the season, but considering he is now on the wrong side of 30 and has had a pretty poor season Herr Uwe probably won't be losing any sleep over his departure. 

Fredrikstad for their part have according to manager Anders Grönhagen not given up hope of winning the title, but with a six point-gap between themselves and Stabæk with three games left to play you'd have to be Raymond Kvisvik to put money of them to do so. 

Home win.

HamKam (14th) - Lyn (7th)

Dark days for HamKam (as usual), back at the bottom of the table and this week it also emerged that their talented young striker Marcus Pedersen will leave the club on a free transfer after the season is over. 

Draw.

Rosenborg (4th) - Strømsgodset (12th)

This weekend's wikipedia-edit is altogether more subtle than the two previous ones. From the entry of Øyvind Storflor:

Øyvind Storflor (born 18 December 1979 in Trondheim) is a rumored Norwegian football player, reportedly playing for Rosenborg BK. However there are some who claim that Storflor doesn't exist, and that sightings of him have in fact been optical illusions.

According to urban legend he made his debut for Rosenborg in 1999. In 2000 he was loaned out for Byåsen IL, and in 2001 he was sold to Moss FK for 500 000 Norwegian kroner (NOK). In January 2003, Storflor returned to Rosenborg for NOK 1,000,000. An investigation has been launched in an attempt to verify these claims.

Strømsgodset IF have secured his services for the 2009, and should the investigation discover that he does in fact not exist they will be rather cross.

The interesting thing is that the article has as many references now as it did before wiki-experts here at fjordball-towers went to work, so who is to say what is true and what isn't?

Home win.

Brann (8th) - Stabæk (1st)

Last season Brann had the most lethal striker in the league up front, an inspirational leader and excellent ball-distributor in the middle and a shrewd manager at the helm.

Now they have Eirik Bakke.

Away win.

Monday

Vålerenga (9th) - Lillestrøm (11th)

Next season's management-team at Circus Åråsen is starting to take shape with the news that Andre Bergdølmo and Petter Belsvik will be joining Henning Berg's coaching-staff. At fjordball-towers we're all a bit worried that so many seemingly competent people are converging at Lillestrøm, maybe they'll actually be good next season. Come on, nobody wants that.

Draw.