Marked for Baba Salifu Apiiga
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tobias Stagaard 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
$2.0M on the table at FH
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and FH know it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market2 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A programme of his own, away from the group, aimed at one thing the staff think is holding him back. Most improvement happens like this and none of it makes the paper.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at FH
Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tobias Stagaard 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adolf Daði Birgisson, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Kristján Flóki Finnbogason is on it.
Market5 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at FH
Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad28 Sep 2026
FH are still strangers to each other
13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Andri Sigurdsson was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the FH dressing room was either.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match26 Sep 2026
FH and Breidablik cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Breidablik came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Arngrímur Bjartur Guðmundsson is on it.
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Upbeat
Match21 Sep 2026
FH are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 13 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at FH
Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.37 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tobias Stagaard 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A point taken on 96 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aron Jónsson, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Andri Sigurdsson chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
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Triumph
Market14 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FH, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Sep 2026
FH get the job done against KR
A 1‑0 win over KR, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tobias Stagaard was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
7.90, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. FH had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Fjolnir to sit and watch. I want to come back to FH and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Andri Sigurdsson kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Grétar Snær Gunnarsson is on it.
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Upbeat
Match26 Aug 2026
FH bow out of the cup
KR go through and FH go home, 2‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.15, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Bjarni Guðjón Brynjólfsson provided it, and the 8.16 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Arnór Borg Guðjohnsen’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FH.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobias Stagaard 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.11 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.