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Oddball Egil the stalking Norse in wellies!; Olsen: He's out on his own as the boss who quite often quotes Marx (Karl, not Groucho).(Sport)

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From: The People (London, England)
Date: 19980614
Author:GRANT, Report BILL

EGIL OLSEN isn't your everyday international boss - and if there are two more differing personalities in this World Cup than Craig Brown and the Norway boss they have yet to be discovered.

One is a former school teacher who plays everything by the book and is, with no disrespect intended, as normal as they come.

While the other, Mr Olsen, in some people's minds anyway, is as mad as a house!

Some of Olsen's traits have become the stuff of legend in footballing circles, such as:

Heading team-talks on quotations from the communist founding father Karl Marx.

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