He follows fellow Iceland international Ivar Ingimarsson who signed an extension last week.

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Finally in 1999 a Reykjavik judge ruled that the sale was invalid because Ingimarsson did not have the authority to sell the company.

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His father contacted a fellow Icelander, Ingimar Haukur Ingimarsson, then a consultant in Russia, who agreed to take the old equipment to start a plant there.

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Thor and his father denied the charges and insisted that they had legitimately bought the company from Ingimarsson and assumed its debts, which they paid off.

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Claiming that some of the bottling equipment had arrived late and didn't work as promised, Ingimarsson and his British partner tried to renegotiate with Pharmaco for a lower sale price.

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But Steve Coppell's side had referee Uriah Rennie to thank when he chose to book Johnson rather than award a penalty before the break when the midfielder seemed to be caught by Ivar Ingimarsson inside the area.

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