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You are now reading news’s ​​new interview column “På hjembane”. Here we meet well-known sports profiles and ask them a series of questions about big and small things. Today: Arne Scheie. We start with five fixed and quick questions: – Apart from sport, what do you spend the most time on? – Apart from sports, it is enough to follow the radio, read newspapers, solve crosswords, solve sudoku and try, in the blink of an eye, to keep fit and go for a walk of at least one hour every single day. – When was the last time you spent NOK 1,000 or more on a dinner? – At a dinner? So I can’t remember when I did it, but I did it at a restaurant in Oslo and then we’re talking about the transition from the nineties to this century. Then I was out and took a bill, and it was over NOK 1,000 at the time. – What is the stupidest purchase you have made in the last year? – Stupidest purchase last year … No, I don’t know. You know as a pensioner I feel I have what I need. No, I don’t think I’ve done such stupid things in the past year. – What can really piss you off? – There is injustice on all levels in the world. – What is your most controversial opinion? – That is a very good question. Is it controversial to say I don’t like alcohol? I’m not a teetotaler or anything like that, but eventually I’ve come to the point where I don’t really like alcohol. But it’s not controversial, is it? IN THE FROGNER PARK: You might be lucky and bump into a commentary legend. Photo: Anna Stensrud / news – Cup is cup On Saturday, it is ready for the cup final. Scheie himself has commented on a number of cup finals during his career at news and is looking forward to Saturday’s match between Lillestrøm and Brann. – Who do you think will win the cup final? – A cup is a cup. I, who bet quite a bit, would totally watch the game. It is completely open. – What do you think about there being a cup final in May? – For me, the cup final is in the autumn, but there have been a few years now that have been difficult, so all credit to the Football Association for ending almost two years of the rap, and are back to normal in the autumn. – Can you highlight your best memory from the cup finals you have covered? – There are many good memories. There are good memories from all matches and all cup finals have a life of their own. A very fond memory is the first cup final I covered in 1976, when Brann played against Sogndal. It was amazing. Then I was allowed to commentate in the cup for the first time, and it was ash-laden Sogndal against established Brann. It was big. And I’m from Lillestrøm, so commenting on Lillestrøm’s victories was always very important, of course. The last match I commented on in 2013, between Molde and Rosenborg, was also a fantastically good match. Have you ever wondered how scoring in the cup final is experienced in Arne Scheie’s box? Then you should watch this video. Falls and pelvic fractures – What does a normal day in Arne Scheie’s life look like? – I would like to tell you that. Now I have been so unlucky as to tryna when I was out on my trip on 23 October. I have recovered and am back in good shape, but before October 23rd and now, every morning I get up at 7.45. I live near Frognerparken and walk two laps, a total of 6-7 kilometers each day. It is the beginning. Then it’s home and listen to the radio and go through the internet and newspapers. And then we take it from there. I am so lucky that we have a number of regular things we do with old colleagues and friends several times a week. The days go by very quickly! OUT FOR A TRIP: It was on his daily morning walk in Frogner Park that Arne Scheie fell and suffered a broken pelvis in October last year. Photo: Anna Stensrud / news – Do you want to tell about the fall and the way back? – I tripped over an edge in Frognerparken and realized that I hadn’t broken anything – I thought. I also thought “should I go for another round, be out a little more?”. Then I thought that it is best to get home. I strangely managed to get home the 1.5 kilometers, but when I got home I couldn’t walk 10 meters. Then it was off to the hospital. I was there for two days. I was relatively depressed when I came home in a wheelchair. Couldn’t climb stairs, couldn’t lie down. Everything was wrong. But then it was a breeze all the way, and today I feel as good as before I went out on 23 October. THE FALL: This ledge was covered in leaves when Scheie tripped over it and broke her pelvis last October. Photo: Anna Stensrud / news – Do you appreciate being able to go for a walk more now? – Yes. I really appreciate being healthy. Because I was depressed and I had hope that this would get better. It was also the famous mouse steps that made me better. Some thought that maybe it helped me that I had invested in movement every day. If it’s right, just encourage everyone to be moving. Football as medicine THE HARD CLIMB: To watch the 2022 World Cup, Scheie had to climb these steep stairs. Photo: Anna Stensrud / news – You had to climb the stairs to watch the football World Cup. How did it go? – It was an ordeal. I have to be honest and say that if it was a seemingly uninteresting match early in the day, I was over it. But the big matches – of course I had to bring them with me. – Was it an additional motivation? – Yes, that was it too. When you were sitting in the chair and could hardly do anything, it was tempting to stay seated. But when I knew it was the only opportunity to follow the football World Cup in Qatar, I had to go up there. GOOD MOOD: At Scheie’s home, the laughter is loose. Photo: Anna Stensrud / news HONORARY PRIZE: In 2005, Scheie won, to his great surprise, Gullruten’s honorary prize. It has been “hidden” away together with a dozen other prizes in Arne’s room, where otherwise no one else enters. Photo: Anna Stensrud / news 40 trips to the hoppuka – You worked at news for over 40 years – what were the highlights? – The highlights for me were taking part in the major international championships and if there was a great effort by Norway with Norwegian victories, that was of course the best. There is no doubt about that. I was lucky enough to comment ten times from the Winter Olympics. And when the Norwegians did well, it was fantastic. ARNES ROOM: news was allowed to enter Scheie’s own private room, where the walls are wallpapered with caricatures and achievements from a long career. Even Scheie thinks it’s embarrassing to show off. Photo: Anna Stensrud / news – What was the biggest thing? – When I look back, I would say that everything with Lillehammer was difficult. Could it happen now in five years if Norway had won the Olympics, that it became so wild with so many people? – What do you miss from work? – I miss the sport, the events, and being present to convey the message. Then of course I miss the camaraderie we had in the editorial office. And the fine camaraderie between the athletes I had the opportunity to comment on. What I don’t miss are the trips. JUMPED IN IT: Arne Scheie covered the hopscotch for many decades. Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB scanpix – You’ve had some amputated holidays with 40 trips to the hoppuka. – It was no sacrifice for me to be in the jump box. It was a pleasure to go to the hoppuka every single year. Because in all modesty I have to say that I have been very interested in skiing and football all my life. When I was also allowed to comment on the hoppuka on news, it was certainly no sacrifice to travel down during Christmas and come back well into the New Year. Tommy Ingebrigtsen is only 17 years old when he becomes world champion in jumping during the World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay in 1995. With his fantastic last jump, he sets a new hill record and makes Arne Scheie and Jon Herwig Carlsen ecstatic. Tribute to Haaland and Ødegaard – With players like Haaland, Hegerberg and Ødegaard, one can dare to claim that Norwegian footballers have never been better. Why are they coming now? – It has been shown that Norway is a sporting country and you have mentioned some athletes in football, but you can look at what is happening in athletics then. It’s absolutely incredible. What happens in biathlon, what happens in cross-country skiing, what happens in jumping. No, Norway, with its 5 million inhabitants, is a fantastic sporting nation. And of course I am looking forward to what is happening in England with Haaland and Ødegaard. – Remember, when I started commenting in England, it was very important that we had a physiotherapist in Wolverhampton. It was amazing. And then this escalated when we got Einar Aas and then Åge Hareide went away, and those were difficult things. Think today two of the most important, best players in the Premier League are from Norway. They are fantastic ambassadors for Norway, for Norwegian football and absolutely everything, Martin Ødegaard and Braut Haaland. BATTLE READY: Inside the holiest room, Arne’s own cave, it is ready for battle watching. Photo: Anna Stensrud / news – Would you like to comment on their matches? – Yes of course. To be able to comment on Norwegian sportspeople at the top is quite an adventure. Fortunately, I got to experience some of that, but what is happening in England with them it is … I can hardly find words. When I think that we have the top scorer, the leader of the scoring table in the Premier League, and the captain of Arsenal. It would have been completely unreal if you had mentioned something like that when I started. In the 70s you would probably have been put in. Because it was as far away as possible, you also have the situation that we have today. THE KEY TO WEMBLEY: Scheie has earned himself a key to England’s national stadium Wembley Stadium, but it didn’t work last time he visited. Photo: Anna Stensrud / news – What is your favorite travel destination – are there any places you would like to return to? – I have always said to myself that one day I have to return to the hoppuka. I have certainly been to Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the summertime afterwards, but I have not been there in the wintertime. And that would have been fun. It is always on my mind that I should go again and watch football in Manchester. Watch football in England. I had my first football trip to England in Christmas 1964, maybe it will be an anniversary 60 years later. Maybe it will be England already now in 2023. HABIT: The retired commentator likes routine. Photo: Anna Stensrud / no



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