Norwegian fan trades 5 pounds of fish for price ticket to Bodø/Glimt v Tottenham

A Norwegian bartered 5 pounds of semi-dried fish for a price ticket to Thursday’s semi-final conflict between Bodø/Glimt and Tottenham within the Arctic Circle, because the hosts intention to transform the primary Norwegian membership to succeed in a European last.

Some 50,000 fanatics had been vying for simply 480 closing tickets to the second one leg of Bodø/Glimt’s Europa League semi-final.

After lacking out, Torbjorn Eide, a manufacturing supervisor at a fish farm in Senja, presented 5 pounds of boknafisk, a Norwegian delicacy price just about 2,500 Norwegian crowns (£182), in alternate for a price ticket.

“We produce Norway’s best boknafisk, and you probably can’t get it in Bodø city. So I thought maybe someone would want it,” Eide instructed Norway’s state-run broadcaster NRK on Tuesday.

Oystein Aanes, who had a spare price ticket as a result of his brother couldn’t make the sport, took the bait. “It was just a fun thing,” Aanes instructed NRK.

Inspired via the deal, Nils Erik Oskal made up our minds to take a look at his good fortune with 5 pounds of reindeer meat. “Someone took the bait. It didn’t take long,” he stated. Oskal’s industry might be price about 1,000 Norwegian crowns. “But that doesn’t matter, I get to experience something huge,” Oskal stated.

Spurs lead the Norwegian facet 3-1 after the primary leg in their semi-final ultimate Thursday.