The Manchester City striker is following in the footsteps of his father and Lars Bohinen, among others
last August, following in his father’s footsteps 28 and a half years on; should he fire them to Champions League success and a treble on Saturday he will match the achievements of Ronny Johnsen and, famously, Ole Gunnar Solskjær in 1999. The English league’s primacy will be underlined if City win and there is a clear lineage back to the days when Norway’s exports helped it on its way.
Before the Bosman ruling opened up Europe’s transfer market, Norwegians were the Premier League’s must-have foreign accessory. Between 1992 and the end of 1995 their representatives totalled 13; Swedes and Danes, by contrast, accounted for eight apiece. Cultural similarities helped, as did English football’s increased awareness that it needed to look outwards; the high performance of Egil Olsen’s international side held attraction, too.
It is not unreasonable to extrapolate that, much as Arsène Wenger is feted for altering attitudes towards diet and conditioning, the Scandinavian school of the early 1990s encouraged a greater seriousness among their new peers. Bohinen and Haaland have passed that down to their offspring, too. Just as Erling was born in Leeds during Alf-Inge’s time there, Bohinen’s son Emil lists Derby on his birth certificate.
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