It is only for each of you to extend the list of uselessness. Because this is a feeling everyone has known – that of discovering something new that you instinctively know will never be used or take the world one step forward in some positive direction. But even there, we humans are some wonderful creatures. Too often to buy it or download it – or as here to adopt it – nevertheless. And ends with the play-off arrangement our best soccer women have had a go at this autumn. Without anyone being able to explain what really happened when it was adopted at the football parliament in 2019. One only needs to go back through the case papers and see all the crossing outs to realize that the Bill on changes in the divisional structure for the top divisions for women was so poorly thought out that it had to go through desperate last-minute changes. Without that helping at all. TOP SERIES 2022: A mixture of yellow ketchup, Clubhouse and Crystal Pepsi. The champion team Fire So they had to wait two pandemic years before it became a reality. While the suspicion that something was seriously wrong only increased. All the skeptics were to be proved right. Fortunately, they ended up with the deserved winner in Toppserien 2022. And Norway’s second largest city has been able to celebrate its heroes all this weekend. On Saturday, 13,000 spectators at Brann Stadion paid tribute to the club’s boys, because they had once again earned a place as one of Norway’s 16 best teams. But most of all, “Nystemten” this time was a vorspielsang. Because Bergen also has a proper top team, which this Sunday should get its deserved and not least historic league gold. Not only the first as Brann, but also the first after the championship play-offs. Or Toppserien Topp 4, as it has been formally called. CHAMPIONS: Brann won the Toppserien 2022. Photo: Marit Hommedal / NTB The Bergen audience responded by setting an audience record at Stemmemyren during the match against series runners-up Vålerenga. Sorry, playoff runners. In addition, there was the Toppserien – qualification play-off, the one where Avaldsnes and John Arne Riise managed to finish in the qualification place and will meet Øvrevoll Hosle for the right to play at the top level next year as well. Advantage of not winning? Øvrevoll Hosle finished in 3rd place in the basic game in the 1st division, three points behind TIL 2020. TIL 2020 finished in the Toppserien qualification play-offs and was the club that was pushed down by Avaldsnes at the very last moment. Instead, the club that finished two places behind them in the table and failed to make it to this play-off still has a chance to play a division above UNTIL 2020 next year. Put your money on that this is also how it will be in Football’s own year, the second in a row. Then you can continue to speculate on who also found that it could be worthwhile to lose and finish in third place and rather have to play qualification later. Because that’s exactly how it turned out. For those of you who were close to hanging out. 2022 is, in any case, a real bad year for football – the second in a row. Let’s just emphasize that this designation is not of the particularly official kind, the kind you get on early Sunday mornings at various football events. But it is good enough that it can be picked up again. In a year that includes 0-8 for England in the European Championship, the cup final for the men on 1 May, the World Cup in Qatar and thus this variation of a play-off arrangement. TINGHEFTE: The playoff model in the Toppserien was drawn up at the Football Parliament in 2019. Photo: Facsimile Norwegian Football Association Football’s first bad year Rarely has anything been so out of the ordinary as in 1987. All in all, a year that has made a rare impression in world history. But in football it was completely peculiar. Here at home, Norway’s women won the EC on home soil. Which almost made it a normal year back then. This was not the case among the men. Because this was the year when Moss became series champion. Moss. At the same time, Jan Kristian Fjærestad became the top scorer. Moss has never won anything before or since. Neither has Bryne. But in 1987 they decide the cup final in extra time, where the only goal scorer is a centre-back from Namsos named Kolbjørn Ekker. UNEXPECTED CHAMPION: Kolbjørn Ekker (tv) became the great hero for Bryne in 1987. Photo: Eystein Hanssen / NTB In England, Coventry manages to win the FA Cup. Of course, they have never been near anything like it, before or since. The trophy was otherwise received by yet another centre-back, Brian Kilcline, with the natural nickname Killer. But what really made 1987 a bad year in football terms was what drew the lines of today’s top league system. 1987 was the one year when tied games here at home ended in a penalty shootout, with one extra point for the winners. Everyone knows who messed up the men’s Elite Series in 1987. The originator was proud of the experiment until his untimely death. Tom A. Schanke was a football rabble-rouser, but also a visionary instigator. Tom A. Schanke loved to provoke. Here he had the whole of Fotball-Norge reminded of that every single Sunday through 1987. FOOTBALL’S RABULIST: Odd Iversen (Vålerenga), chairman Svein Kvia (Viking) and secretary Tom A. Schanke during the players’ association’s general meeting in 1978. Photo: Bjørn Sigurdsøn / NTB M those responsible for the parody of a series system that has in many ways ruined this year’s Toppserie have not even wanted to vouch for it. Instead, something is played that is most reminiscent of the pointing game. A playoff is a defeat in itself. A declaration of bankruptcy in the fight to raise the overall quality of a league. The worst teams aren’t just bad. They are too bad, and no one believes that anything can be done about it anymore. You have it in some countries on the male side, such as Poland, Romania and Belgium. And in Scotland, where more than anywhere else they have realized that the differences in level in their top league will always remain very large. Two more years In Norway, the level should be raised internationally. Therefore, there were only 10 teams in the Toppserien. But this resulted in too few matches throughout a season. Out of the hat comes the most scabby rabbit body Norwegian football has seen. A system with a base game of 18 games that almost doesn’t count. Before a random distribution of points resulted in such unfair results that Kolbotn was two points away from the Topp4-sTopp 4pillet and instead ended up being relegated for the first time in 27 years, even though they have actually taken enough points. The penalty shootouts were a trial scheme that was discontinued after just one season. No one understood to make such a reservation this time. History has it that the proposal was adopted on a Sunday morning, after a successful banquet the night before. Fascinatingly enough, it was unanimously adopted. So it will hopefully be abolished unanimously at the parliament next year. In the meantime, frantic attempts must be made to make up what should have been a corpse after this last round of the series, waiting for something new next year to change this system with effect from 2024. And in this Norwegian football house, perhaps one is missing own version of the infection stop app. Which had flashed red when the delegates were in acute proximity of a legislative proposal that should never have seen the light of day. And maybe also had a slightly better alarm clock.
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