i think its because their manager won the uefa cup in the last two seasons (Juan Ramos), they have got very good players like Berbatov and in England they are based in London so are a big team with very rich chairman. They are considered 5th best team in England after Liverpool, Arsenal, Man Utd and Chelsea by all the newspapers but in reality not many people do, especially evertonians. This season they have a poor season!! but are you telling me Brann has never had a poor season in their history!

We still have more than 20 games left in the season.

ok this is fact but the bookmakers (betting agency) has got everton 4th favourite to win Uefa Cup out of the last 32 teams left in competition

Bayern Munich - 1st
Tottenham - 2nd (everton beat them away 3-1 this season)
Athletico Madrid - 3rd
Everton 4th

SK Brann is joint 32nd with Aberdeen
http://www.coral.co.uk/sbuk.go?page=supergrouppage&sportid=1&supergroup=j2UEFA+Cup

it will be a major shock if Everton lose the game in England, everyone is expecting Everton to win and progress.

Everton Uefa Cup Winners 2007/2008

trust me, at least you will lose to the best team  :wink:

lol your funny :)

yeah ill like to see how FC Brann do against Ronaldo, Rooney, Tevez, Giggs, Anderson!!

20-0 man utd?

man utd 2 everton 1
ronaldo scored 88th minute penalty

was harsh on everton, we played well.

also losing to Newcastle and Reading and Villa we were AWAY from home

and Newcastle have some world class players in a 60,000 seater Stadium like Michael Owen, England Striker, Obafemi Martins ex inter milan striker and nigerian international. Reading also Beat Liverpool 3-1 at Majeski Stadium we only lost 2-1.

i know its not going to be easy

but saying you beat a WELSH side 8-0 doesnt impress any English people, here we think the welsh are shit and shag sheep as in have sex with sheep.
We beat Sunderland 7-1 this season.

anyways off to watch Everton vs. Man Utd.

and rodwell the 16 year old got alot of press because of his age. Youngest ever Everton player to play in Europe.

type Jack Rodwell in google.

Daffi i dont call a 4-1 agg win for Liverpool close?

ours should have been 3-3 agg with Villareal but ref conned us
read this: http://www.football.co.uk/everton/collina_bent_was_the_culprit_209311.shtml

ricky teams lost to villareal by 1 goal, just like everton so..?? shows you how good they are... look at their co-efficient rating.

and Falkman

Wessels - reserve goalkeeper
Gravesen, Valente, Hibbert, Anichebe not first choice

not all youngsters played as you can imagine this is uefa cup but alot travelled and some played

http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/european/article3273217.ece

Vaughan scored winner - 19
Anichebe played 90 mins and made final goal assist - 19
Vidarsson came on - 19
Rodwell came on - 16
Jutkiewicz - 19
Boyle - 21
Irving - 19
Kissock - 18

at the final whistle on two of our first team players left on pitch: Lee Carsley defensive midfielder and Joleon Lescott central defender that was all. Rest are reserve or youth.

we lost away to them and beat them at home. Plus we didnt have andy johnson or yakubu 20 mils worth of strikers, we had shitty james beattie and marcus bent and old man duncan ferguson. We are now a much stronger side.

and let me tell you that was probably because our morale was so low from being knocked out of the champions league qualifiers by a cheating Ref Pierlugini Collina who dissallowed a perfectly good goal for us in villareal that would have made it 2-1 to us. because of that we got knocked out and villareal went to the semi finals of the CHAMPS LEAGUE

has Brann ever nearly beaten a side that went to champs league semi finals?

and yes our co-efficient is high cos of the league we are in, but clubb brugge would probably be a mid-table side in the Prem.

last 5 years we have finished only twice in European spots, we finished 4th ahead of Liverpool and we finished 6th.

need i remind you Sk Brann finished 3rd on 4 points
Everton finished 1st with 12 points

only 1 other team achieved same feat even Bayern Munich didnt, it was Bordeaux in France

The team we beat AZ with was 18,19 year old mostly and even 1 16 year old we won 3-2 at AZ Alkmaar who made semi finals or quarter finals last year and hold the longest unbeaten home record in Europe, no other European team has a better record. Inter Milan, Barcelona, Liverpool all couldnt beat AZ Alkmaar but Everton could.

its our 5th straight win in Europe, the reason our co-efficient is so low is because we have not been Europe before except in champs league and uefa cup qualifiers which we lost a few years ago and also because Liverpool fans got us banned from Europe for 10 years when Everton was strongest European side, stronger than Madrid, the ban wasnt helpful for Everton.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/Match_Report/0,,2230968,00.html

yeah if they cannot go to stadium they will stay in city centre and sing songs all nite long :)

i think 3000-5000 fans will flyover, most of them without tickets.. we tend to do that bring fans over even without tickets... i reckon the FUll allocation will be taken up by everton fans 850 tickets easily, within seconds

then i think some of the other evertonians will try to get in the home end and buy tickets off your supporters or from your ticket office pretending to be norwegian somehow lol

if not they will just hang around pubs near the stadium and watch the game on tv in norway :)

'8 Martin Andresen 28 6 4 0 - Traitor. If you see him, take a piss on him.l '

ill make sure to do that next time i see him  :lol:

you should get 3,000 seat allocated for brann supporters

noen gang tilhenger elske deres lag , vi bringe alot av tilhenger over til annet land , jeg vite du ville bare utleie 800-1000 tilhenger cos av din stadium , bortsett fra være suprised jeg anslå vi ville bringe det vil si 3000 tilhenger , noen av våre tilhenger ville kjøpe billett inne din end hvis de skrånende komme inn det fjerne end. hvis du oppfatte denne kunne du svar inne engelske.

Well heres a little bit of information about Everton FC

As you know we are in Liverpool, North-West England, We are the only team in England to be in the top flight of football the longest since 1878. We are in the top 5 all time English clubs in terms of honours, we won the League 9 times in 1890-1, 1914-15, 1927-28, 1931-32, 1938-39, 1962-63, 1969-70, 1984-85, and 1986-87

We have won the FA Cup 5 times: 1906, 1933, 1966, 1984, 1995

Our Stadium is Goodison Park, it hold 40,500 people but our average attendance in the season is about 37,000 fans.

This season we broke our transfer record, we signed Yakubu for 11.25 million pounds, his record in the Premiership is second only to Thierry Henry.

Other Key Players:

Joesph Yobo - Nigeria Captain and Everton Defender
Lescott - England International and very good defender
Mikel Arteta - Everton's player of the year 2 years running
Andrew Johnson - Very fast striker and England International, very small
Tim Cahill - like Steven Gerrard, scoring midfielder, Australian International, you may remember from World Cup
Tim Howard - Our USA goalkeeper, ex-man utd goalkeeper
and of course Yakubu
Phil Neville - Everton Captain and ex-man utd player

Ones to Watch:
Anichebe - very big striker, holds the ball and has scored 3 times in Uefa Cup, only 19
James Vaughan - 19 years old, very fast, very dangerous striker
Pienaar - Only at loan but he is extremely skillful

We are currently 6th in the Premiership nearly half way through and are on same points as Liverpool. We are also in Semi Finals of the Carling Cup a competition we have never won. We face Chelsea in the Semi-Finals over two-legs, by the time we play you in February we shall know the outcome. Our Manager is David Moyes, he has been with us for 5 years (very long time in Prem, usually managers last 1 or 2 years). He is Scottish so is very similar style to Sir Alex Ferguson.

And just a little bit more history, Everton currently hold the record for a single player to score the most goals in 1 season. Dixie Dean scored 60 goals in one season which has never ever been beaten.

I cannot wait for the match and i wish you good luck, but obviously as Evertonian i hope we progress.. well done on winning the Norwegian League and good luck in the Champions League.. i will make sure to look out for your results.

Brann has lost their best player, central midfielder Martin Andresen since they won the league. That will weaken them very much.

Hi my name is Ryan and i support Everton

nice to talk to the brann fans, you seem like a friendly bunch who are quitely confident.

I would like to know more about brann, have you always been title contenders or was it a shock to win the league? how is your squad are there many international players?

at everton we have a few international players and some really skillfull players. We also have a 40,000 stadium and will be sold out for the return leg, i dunno how we will do in Brann but if we play a strong side i think we can win both legs, its quite possible. We are currently on a 13 game unbeaten run, we won 11 and drew 2, we drew with chelsea and portsmourth away. We play Manchester United on Sunday at Old Trafford.