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Tottenham v Bodø/Glimt: Europa League semi-final, first leg

Europa League updates from the 8pm BST kick-offLive scores | Read today’s Football Daily | Mail SimonHere’s Nick Ames’ report from Bodø on the “big dream” coming true for the Norwegian side:No one is sure precisely when the “coffee table” tradition began, but consensus traces it back about 60 years. It would take a lot for one of the regulars not to show up. The time is almost 11am and cups are being laid out in the Aspmyra Stadion canteen for the Bodø/Glimt old boys’ daily catchup. In walks Ivar Bakke, who can count himself as the group’s elder statesman at 94. “One of the oldest people in Norway!” he laughs before sitting down. Tall tales are retold, memories sharpened in delighting over past and more recent glories; however far those stretch, everyone here knows what it has taken to bring their club to the barely fathomable territory of a Europa League semi-final. Continue reading...

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