Häcken

Reasons To Adopt

Here is the argument for Häcken: Sweden, Sweden Allsvenskan, and a ground called Nordic Wellness Arena, Gothenburg. A second team should give you something your first one cannot, and this is a different country's whole weather system.

• The calendar you inherit

  Sweden Allsvenskan is cold-weather football: mud in February, breath visible under the lights, and a fixture list that rewards anyone who sticks it out. Sweden does not do easy neutrals.

• Old enough to matter

  1940 is the founding date, old enough that the club has survived a war, a rebuild and at least one financial scare, young enough that the good years are still in living memory.

• Loaded cabinet

  6 distinct honours on record, including Swedish Champions. Adopt them and you inherit expectation, which is more fun than it sounds when the trophies keep coming.

• Close to the pitch

  Nordic Wellness Arena, Gothenburg holds about 6,500. You can hear the defenders shouting at each other, which is the single best argument for lower-capacity football.