Gambian Tijan Jaiteh and his Scandinavian club Brann is only one point away from being officially crowned Norwegian league champions after beating Lyn Oslo 3-1 at home on Monday.

Brann started out in good fashion infront of an extatic home crowd of 17.700.

Needing a only point, only the craziest theory can rob Brann for the league gold with three rounds left, Brann is nine points ahead of Stabæk in second place.

On Monday evening the party already started for the Brann supporters, who have been waiting for the league gold to "come home" for 44 years.

Brann is historically arguably the biggest club in Norway in terms of public interest, and hence there are high expectations for the club every season, expectations that notoriously have been let down. Brann won their first Norwegian Premier League titles in 1961/62 and 1963, but after this Brann was involved in the race for the league title only in seasons 1974-76, 1990 and 2006, until they finally won it again in 2007.

Despite this, the club has never failed to spark considerable interest from the Norwegian media and keeping an epidemics of football hysteria continuously running in Bergen . Moreover, Brann have regularly been winners and runners-up of the Norwegian Cup. The club also reached the quarter finals of the Cup Winners' Cup in the 1996/97 season.

Meanwhile, Ebrima Sohna and Sandefjord   in the same league could only avoid relegation should they win their remain three fixtures and hope fellow relegation threatened side, Strømsgodset slip.

Sandefjord have won only three matches in their 23 premier league matches.