Bodo/Glimt must be the most romantic story in European football in decades.

If they reach the Champions League quarter-finals this week it would be a fairytale up there with Jose Mourinho's Porto winning it in 2004. Just this one is forged in ice rather than hot-blooded knee slides...

You'll likely know them by now, tucked away in the Arctic fjords, where the winds sweep down off snow-capped mountains and fans wear jumpers as woolly as their scarves. They are local heroes in brilliant yellow who have risen from the brink of bankruptcy to balling like a frost-kissed Brazil.

The value of Bodo's largely local squad may be less than Manchester City paid for Erling Haaland, yet the Norwegians count the 10-time English champions among a reel of recent scalps that also includes Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan and Sporting.

But Bodo's toothbrush-waving "fish hippies" are not the only fans enjoying underdog stories this season, across Europe clubs are battling above their board.