Morten Thomassen looks today at the chances of the UNITED KINGDOM on home soil. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English.

Someone has to sing at home, and this year it is Mae Muller who has that honor and she can really be said to have to jump after Wirkola, which is the expression we use in Norway for something that has really big shoes to fill.

The person she’s jumping after is Sam Ryder, who took our British friends to second place last year, and that’s what Mae will be measured against when she sings the song “I Wrote A Song”.

As if this wasn’t enough, she is jumping at home and I should think that will also put extra pressure on Miss Muller’s shoulders.

Although Mae is relatively high up on the bookmakers’ lists, I doubt if she will climb as high on the list as Sam did last year, I simply cannot see that she has quite the same stage skills as him.

But, what she has a bouncy and catchy case of a pop song she performs and if she brings out the mood of the song on stage, our British friends can get another respectable result on their ESC CV, I think.

The organizing country has the last starting number in the final, so we can hope that not too much nervousness has built up before the song comes on stage to defend the home colours.