Our very first Norwegian encounter came back in 1966 with a friendly against Sarpsborg in the far south of the country and since then, we’ve made numerous trips to Norway – mostly for pre and post-season friendly matches.
A double from Alan Gilzean and a goal from Keith Weller gave us a 3-0 win against Sarpsborg just six days after the conclusion of our 1965/66 campaign. The team included defender Ben Embery and forward David Gillingwater – two youngsters who were making their only ever appearance in our first team.
Just days after the end of the disappointing 1976/77 season which saw us relegated to Division Two, we headed off to Norway and played matches against Stord FC and Sogndal FC. With the pressure off, we recorded big wins in both games – goals from Keith Osgood, Gerry Armstrong, Chris Jones, Ian Moores and Peter Taylor giving us a 5-0 win over Stord, while we went one better against Sogndal with John Pratt, Steve Perryman, Armstrong (2), Jones and Taylor all on target.
We suffered a first-ever defeat against a Norwegian side the following year in May 1978, going down 0-3 to Hamar not long after securing our place back in the First Division that season. Two days later, we defeated Kvik Halden 2-0 thanks to a Taylor penalty and one from Neil McNab.
After a post-season trip to Trinidad & Tobago in May 1983, we were only back in London for a week before we headed off again to Norway to take on Aalesund, Garth Crooks scoring a hat-trick in our 3-2 win.
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