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Pride and anticipation in the Arctic Circle
Arsenal's goalkeeper Matt Turner and Bodo/Glimt's Runar Espejord during the Europa League group A soccer match between Bodo Glimt and Arsenal at the Aspmyra stadium, in Bodo, Norway, Thursday Oct. 13, 2022.

by Layth Yousif in Bodo, Norway

THE air was cold but the anticipation sizzled.

People clad in bright yellow queued around the block, long but patient lines snaking around the compact ground.

They had come to see their unfashionable, unfavoured but much-loved minnows, host the mighty Arsenal from London.

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