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Hogan happy to call Norway his home ... for now
By Aidan Fitzmaurice
BACK here in his native country, no one knows who he is. But over in Norway, Irish footballer Gary Hogan (below) is something of a star.
He even made the front page of the local daily paper this week.
"There was a fire in my apartment block and a man who lives in the floor below me died. But the paper here made a big story out of me, the headline was something like 'Football star in fire drama'. It's crazy," said Hogan, a Dublin-born goalkeeper who has been playing in the lower leagues in Norway for three years.
"Some poor man died, I was never in any danger but they still made a story out of me.
"It's mad to think that they would be that interested in an Irish goalkeeper,...