'A dream' - Inside Bodo/Glimt's remarkable rise as Man United and Ruben Amorim sent warning

Bodø/Glimt will arrive at Old Trafford to take on Manchester United this evening as one of European football's biggest success stories

The Norwegian champions were only promoted back to the Eliteserien (Norway's top flight) ahead of the 2018 season but they have established themselves as Norway's premier side, continually beating off the challenge of the traditional bigger clubs.

Under the management of Kjetli Knutsen, Bodø/Glimt have won three of the last four Norwegian titles and have not finished below second in any of the last five seasons. They have also made their mark in Europe, making headlines when they thrashed Jose Mourinho's Roma 6-1 in the 2021/22 Europa Conference League - a competition they reached the quarter-finals of.

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Based in the arctic circle, their Aspmyra home stadium has become a fortress. Temperatures become excruciatingly cold in the winter and they play on astro turf, making it an extremely difficult place for opposition sides to visit.

Their recruitment and development of players is among the best in Europe and despite consistently losing some of their better players, they continue to recover and compete at the top end of Norwegian football. Bayer Leverkusen forward Victor Boniface is one particular example of a player who cut his cloth at the club, and Jans Petter Hauge earned a move to AC Milan.

And while United secured the services of one of Europe's brightest managers in Sporting CP coach Ruben Amorim, Bodø/Glimt have their own in Knutsen. The 56-year-old Norwegian has turned down the