Mj?llby making minor miracles in an extraordinary Swedish football story

Former third-tier club with no financial muscle from remote municipality of 14,000 inhabitants lead country?s top flight
For Mj?llby?s opponents, a trip to the far south of Sweden feels like a journey to the Earth?s end. ?When teams come on here on the bus they drive and drive, through the farms, past the fishing harbours,? says Hasse Larsson. ?They keep driving and then, when they can?t drive any further, they find our stadium.?
They discover an institution whose heart and soul are rooted in S?lvesborg, a remote municipality of 14,000 inhabitants. Nowadays they find a club front and centre of an extraordinary story unfolding in Allsvenskan, the country?s top flight. Mj?llby are four points clear at the top with 12 games left; they have lost once and, should they escape intact from a visit to the champions Malm? on Saturday, the unlikeliest of dreams will become vivid.
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