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A Norwegian bartered five kilograms (roughly 11 pounds) of semi-dried fish for a ticket to Thursday’s semifinal clash between Bodø/Glimt and Tottenham Hotspur in the Arctic Circle, as the hosts aim to become the first Norwegian club to reach a European final.
Some 50,000 fans were vying for just 480 tickets to the second leg of the Bodø/Glimt Europa League semifinal.
After missing out, Torbjørn Eide, a production manager at a fish farm in Senja, offered five kilos of boknafisk, a Norwegian delicacy worth nearly 2,500 Norwegian crowns ($243), in exchange for a ticket.
“We produce Norway’s best boknafisk, and you probably…
