Marked for Jón Sölvi Símonarson
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Steady
Squad18 Nov 2030
“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.
Market18 Nov 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stjarnan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad18 Nov 2030
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.
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Steady
Market21 Oct 2030
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stjarnan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Oct 2030
Aron Snær Friðriksson 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.
Squad21 Oct 2030
Words at Stjarnan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Birnir Snær Ingason 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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Steady
Market23 Sep 2030
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stjarnan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Emil Atlason 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.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Words at Stjarnan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Birnir Snær Ingason 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.
Squad23 Sep 2030
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.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
Kita stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.47 on the card, and the Stjarnan support went home talking about one name.
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Steady
Match21 Aug 2030
FH ended it 1‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad26 Aug 2030
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Market26 Aug 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stjarnan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match24 Aug 2030
No end in sight to Stjarnan's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Stjarnan has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Emil Atlason 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.
Match24 Aug 2030
1‑2 to Breidablik, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 Aug 2030
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings26 Aug 2030
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Aug 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kristinn Magnusson and Stjarnan agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
Squad12 Aug 2030
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad12 Aug 2030
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.
Squad12 Aug 2030
Words at Stjarnan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emil Atlason 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.
Squad12 Aug 2030
“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.
Market12 Aug 2030
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Stjarnan have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings12 Aug 2030
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match10 Aug 2030
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Leiknir defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Player ratings12 Aug 2030
Marked 5.76. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
Player ratings12 Aug 2030
Marked 5.80, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Upbeat
Match27 Jul 2030
Stjarnan win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 91th minute. Keflavik will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Market29 Jul 2030
Máni Austmann has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stjarnan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market29 Jul 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom29 Jul 2030
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad29 Jul 2030
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 ratings29 Jul 2030
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad29 Jul 2030
Words at Stjarnan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emil Atlason 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.
Match27 Jul 2030
Stjarnan are at home on the road
3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Match27 Jul 2030
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Eromosele Zibiri. 1‑0 against Keflavik, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Steady
Market22 Jul 2030
David Gyomber hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stjarnan can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Jul 2030
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 Jul 2030
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.
Market22 Jul 2030
Add another name to the list: Fylkir have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jón Sölvi Símonarson. The answer from Stjarnan has not changed — yet.
Match20 Jul 2030
KR take the points off Stjarnan
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad22 Jul 2030
The manager makes an example of Kita
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings22 Jul 2030
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Jul 2030
The medical room confirms 52 days on the sidelines for Hrafn Guðmundsson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market22 Jul 2030
Everyone has stopped pretending: Fjolnir will make the call about Jon Halldorsson this week. Stjarnan have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
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Steady
Squad11 Feb 2030
“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.
Squad11 Feb 2030
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 Feb 2030
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.
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Steady
Squad3 Dec 2029
72 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.
Squad3 Dec 2029
“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.
Squad3 Dec 2029
Benedikt V. Warén 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.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Feb 2029
Gustav Kjeldsen damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
“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.
Market5 Feb 2029
KR come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Stjarnan did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.