Norwegian debate, Brann | Believing in Fire is like trying to prove the existence of God at a party with atheists

KÅRE INGEBRIGTSEN IS become this season’s face of Branns suffering 2021, just as Lars Arne Nilsen was last year and Rikard Norling before that. It is as if you can read the despair and pain in his face.

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Being a coach for Bergen’s pride is a mental strain.

Misery in Bergen cannot be compared to misery anywhere else in Football Norway.

WHEN IT GOES really bad in Trondheim Rosenborg ends up in fifth place or better. Then there is a crisis at Lerkendal. When Rosenborg does not score two goals on average per league game, there is also a crisis, regardless of where the team is on the table.

The latter was noticed by Kåre Ingebrigtsen on his way to his fourth straight league championship with the Trøndelag team.

On 19 July 2018, after 14 games played, he was fired two points behind league leader Molde, with one game less played.

Today Brann plays his 14th league match at home against Mjøndalen.

Tomorrow is July 19th.

DA RIKARD NORLING took Brann to the playoffs (against Mjøndalen!) and relegation in 2014 Brann had two wins, two draws and nine losses after 13 games. With eight points, Brann was last in the Elite Series. The distance to Aalesund in the contract-proof 13th place was three points.

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Kåre Ingebrigtsen has two points less – six – after only one win, three draws and nine losses.

The distance up to Mjøndalen (!) In the safe 13th place is four points.

WHAT WAS bad and ended in relegation seven years ago is even worse now. The rest you can probably imagine yourself. Fire does not tolerate a new loss. Kåre Ingebrigtsen cannot stand another loss.

I do not say that he will be fired tomorrow if Mjøndalen travels from Bergen with points, Rikard Norling was not fired in 2014 either.

That dismissal came only after ten series rounds in 2015, in ninth place in the OBOS league after 1-4 for Levanger.

THE FACT THAT Kåre Ingebrigtsen can survive no matter what happens tonight and the rest of the season tells in many ways even more about the misery at the Stadium. Then it has become a condition. Then there is also no point in firing the coach and incurring an extra cost.

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If Kåre Ingebrigtsen survives on 19 July 2021 with six or seven points, Brann admits that it is Brann’s fault that Brann does not make it happen.

That it doesn’t really matter who coaches the team.

That the misery comes from within and sits in the walls of the Stadium.

IN AN INTERVIEW with VG, Kåre Ingebrigtsen says that it is the shame he feels, and not the pressure. That says a lot about Branns coach. He does not whine, at least not too much.

It is not Kåre Ingebrigtsen or his CV and future this is about.

It’s the team that’s in the shit, not the coach.

DO NOT HAVE A FIRE had the margins on their side, but that’s the way it is. Bad luck gives no comfort. It only leads to more insecurity, fear and unrest.

Kåre Ingebrigtsen’s team is a football team without confidence, and a loss or two without hope.

Believing in Fire is soon as difficult as trying to prove that God exists at a party with atheists.

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