I'd say Norway's infamous resistance was poor in 633 Squadron but improved in Heroes of Telemark

HELLO reader, yes reader, well reader, what about the match against Norway?

Before it, I think my Sky colleague Charlie Nicholas hit the nail on the neck when he said: "We've got to squeeze up". I've no idea what this means but it sounds good. I wasn't so impressed by Jim White's performance. How many times did he touch Henning Berg's knee? Outrageous behaviour, given there were kids watching. WE hear the Scottish Cup's new sponsor will be Willie Haughey but we understand his business's name City Refrigeration won't be used in the name of the competition.

Shame. Wouldn't that have been really cool? The Mod is in Falkirk this week. Given that most people don't really understand a word of what he is saying at the best of times, Bairns' boss John Yogi' Hughes must be in with a shout for the gold medal. There is to be no investigation from Uefa authorities into the allegations that Zenit St Petersburg bought the Uefa Cup back in May. The beaks took one look at the Rangers line-up in the final and decided there's no way it needed a bribe to beat them. Former Celtic defender, Stephane Henchoz, has announced his retirement from football. Does that mean he is coming back to play in Scotland?

As for the opposition, this Norway side were not the Vikings of old. In fact, I have it on good authority they travelled to Hampden by bus and not, as might have been expected, up the Clyde in a long boat.

Norwegian resistance, which had something of a poor reputation after their performance in 633 Squadron - though to be fair it did improve with The Heroes of Telemark -was stubborn but not brilliant.

They were big and must have quaked in their boots at the prospect of coming up against the sheer physical presence of Faddy.

John Carew's quality caused all sorts of woe. If it wasn't for some last-gasp tackles Norway might have been heading for Valhalla.

First half? Poor. Second half? Better. Why? Maybe George Burley realised his tactics were not working, so took off Morrison and McFadden and threw on Fletcher and Iwelumo.

It was a big ask... early doors on a knife's edge at the back stick on the front foot with nothing left in the tank and time for someone to step up to the plate - unfortunately that person was big Chris Iwelumo.

It takes a lot to silence the Tartan Army but the big man's unbelievable miss did exactly that. I was hoping, praying the linesman would flag offside just to take the pressure off the boy.

The ironic thing is that apart from his moment of horror, Iwelumo had an excellent debut. He was holding up play, linking well, winning everything in the air and his lay-offs were superb but then...

I thought the ball had gone through a hole in the net but there was no hole in the net... and no hole in the ground for big Chris to jump into and swallow him up.

Would Kris Boyd have scored then? Probably. Would Boyd have bothered running into that position? Maybe. Kris has taken the crème puff with George Burley over not getting a game and said he doesn't want to play for Burley again. I have to say, I didn't think he was playing for Burley, I thought he was playing for Scotland.

Now before fans get on his back, the striker has said he'll be happy to return for Scotland after Burley has gone. Who said that patriotism is dead?

Finally, was this a fatal blow to our World Cup hopes? Nah, we will just need a 0-0 draw in our last match against Holland... and lose a goal in the 94th minute! Kids annual is bad idea

CAN it be a year since Rangers' last AGM? Well, apparently the word annual is in the title, so it must be. How time flies. We wonder if they do actually have a meeting or just stick out the same photos every year. If you look closely, you notice subtle differences like ties changing from year to year and Martin Bain's complexion getting darker.

The Kids AGM was a novel idea if dangerous idea which we can't see lasting - with their honesty, the kids gave the adults a bit of a showing up. Every bloke present wanted to ask Walter Smith why Rangers hadn't signed Ronaldinho... but only a wean would have the bottle to ask such a question.

Away from the boring business stuff, player of the year Pedro Mendes was saying he has no problems with rival fans, revealing he has the opposite experience from what Nacho Novo and Allan McGregor have to endure. A word of warning Pedro, there's no room for complacency.

A few more goals against Celtic and/or a quick snog of the badge and all that could change very quickly. Fishy tale in Skippy row

IT'S back to real football this weekend as Sellic head up to Inverness to take on Caley Thistle at the Tulloch Stadium - possibly the Hoops' least favourite ground in the whole world. But since regaining top spot in the SPL, very little has actually happened.

Paul Lambert is the new manager of Colchester which raised the question, where is Colchester?

Scott McDonald was saying he got really annoyed by people saying he was fat, so annoyed, in fact, he went out and ate a fish supper... and there was welcome medical news. Artur Boruc announced his head is screwed firmly on again.

But the Scotland match had plenty of things here for Hoops fans to smile about. Scott Brown had his best game since leaving Hibs, and Gary Caldwell did a magnificent job marking John Carew AND covering for both Kirk Broadfoot and Davie Weir's mistakes.

The only downside was Carew daring to question Shaun Maloney's decision to quit Aston Villa. What Carew doesn't appreciate is that at Sellic Park, Shaun is a giant.