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Uneasy
Squad11 Sep 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 46 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad11 Sep 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market11 Sep 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alfred Thorsteinsson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stjarnan the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Alex Þór Hauksson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Emil Atlason falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match9 Sep 2028
Stjarnan make home a hard place to visit
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match9 Sep 2028
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Örvar Eggertsson had Stjarnan level again within 2 minutes, and IA never got to play with a lead at all.
Match9 Sep 2028
Stjarnan and IA take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings11 Sep 2028
Marked 5.40, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Steady
Squad22 May 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gustav Kjeldsen
58 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stjarnan lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings22 May 2028
A brace, and Örvar Eggertsson takes the afternoon — 9.59
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Örvar Eggertsson provided it, and the 9.59 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad22 May 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad22 May 2028
Emil Atlason in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 May 2028
Birnir Snær Ingason falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match20 May 2028
It finished 3‑1, and it was Örvar Eggertsson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Stjarnan.
Player ratings22 May 2028
A performance of 8.42 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The terraces22 May 2028
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Market22 May 2028
Still no signature from Daniel Krch
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Stjarnan could get for him.
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Steady
Squad11 Oct 2027
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad11 Oct 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Stjarnan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guðmundur Baldvin Nökkvason is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Crisis
The terraces12 Jul 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 5 of the 24 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Armando Bernaola: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Stjarnan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Emil Atlason in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Jul 2027
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Emil Atlason gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
Market5 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Suduva can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Gjergji Kote gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Gjergji Kote has just signed for Suduva, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Suduva
Amadou Sabo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Suduva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ibrahima Seck is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Henry Uzochukwu, and the manager let it.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Intake day at the Suduva academy
5 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.