1 day ago Day 1 astatine Scotland HQ, eastbound of uptown Charlotte, and there's a bunfight brewing - oregon to beryllium much accurate, aggravated Norwegians are taking potshots astatine Steve Clarke, who, we tin lone surmise, couldn't attraction little what the Norwegians think.
Stale Solbakken, the Norway caput coach, and Brede Hangeland, the squad manager, person fto alert successful the media astir a grooming crippled betwixt the reserve players from the 2 countries that Clarke cancelled.
Who knew that the ditching of a meaningless bounce lucifer could spark specified fury.
"Unprofessional," trumpeted Solbakken of his Scottish counterpart. "Embarrassing" and "weak" whinged Hangeland.
Just earlier the Scotland quality league astatine their palatial Charlotte basal camp, 3 Norwegian reporters fetched up successful hunt of Scottish retaliatory thunder.
What they got was a chill effect from John McGinn, not conscionable ace with the shot astatine his feet but besides beauteous nifty with a microphone successful beforehand of his face.
"I would accidental 75% of the [Scotland] squad haven't seen it," helium said of the Norwegian anger, smiling arsenic helium spoke.
"I did spot it. Our occupation is to look aft Scotland. Norway's occupation is to look aft Norway. And if they've done their research, we mislaid a precise important portion of the squad [in Billy Gilmour] very, precise adjacent to this camp.
"It had a immense interaction connected everyone. We didn't privation to suffer another. We had a fewer niggles, not everyone's been training.
"So I deliberation it's a nonrecreational mode of handling things, to beryllium perfectly honest, and look aft fig one. I'm definite each azygous state volition beryllium doing the nonstop same.
"If Norway mislaid Erling Haaland oregon Martin Odegaard successful 1 of the games starring up to Saturday, they would cancel the crippled arsenic well."
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