Fascinating Faz fact - City once played Norway and I was one of very few / only one who saw it.
1991, a few days after Pleats sacking, a behind closed doors weekday friendly around lunchtime. It had snowed, the water pipes had frozen and with no hot showers available game was at risk of not going ahead. In the absence of Pleat I was transferred from training ground sports science to helping the ground staff. After t**tting the pipes with a hammer it worked with minutes to spare and the grateful Norwegians shook my hand and thanked me as they arrived. A handful of them would go on to crop up in the English league but the one I remember most was no.11 Jahn Jakobsen, a live wire in a pedestrian, training exercise of a game. I started day dreaming about getting on for ten minutes and scoring at the cop end but instead they sent me on an errand and I missed the end. But it’s true, it won’t be in Foxes and Fossils but it did happen, City played Norway.