How Erling Haaland is dividing a whole country ahead of Manchester United vs Man City

"We’re a small county but we're very proud of our sports heroes," says Jan Age Fjortoft, one of Norway's first exports to English football and now the face of the Premier League coverage back home for Viaplay.

That pride has swelled this season with the exploits of Erling Haaland at Manchester City. A record number of Premier League goals, more than 50 in all competitions and the chance to be part of a team that wins a historic treble over the next couple of weeks. Haaland's mind-bending numbers have been the storyline of this Premier League season.

Norway has long had a love affair with English football, thanks to adopting early TV coverage of the game, and every weekend thousands of fans head for the country's airports and fly into Manchester, Liverpool and London to watch their teams.

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This season, more and more have been heading to the Etihad to watch their most famous son. As Fjortoft jokes, Haaland (and Arsenal's Martin Odegaard) should be appointed the Norwegian ambassadors to England.

But if interest in City is going up thanks to Haaland, it doesn't match the support of United, who along with Liverpool have a huge fanbase in Norway.

So if this weekend's FA Cup final is going to split Greater Manchester here, in Norway it's going to split an entire country down the middle. There will be no neutrals tuning into the action at Wembley.

"I think there will be a lot of people who follow the game and I think it's only the United supporters who will support United, all others will support City because of Erling," said Alf Ingve Bernsten, one of Haaland's first coaches at hometown club Bryne FK.

If Norwegians are bursting with pride at Haaland's