Marked for Frane Bobanović
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.42 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match5 Jun 2027
Nobody wants to play FH right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Match5 Jun 2027
6 goals as FH and Fjolnir go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between FH and Fjolnir, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match5 Jun 2027
It finished 4‑2, and it was Kjartan Kári Halldórsson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FH.
Match5 Jun 2027
The run at home goes on for FH
9 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad7 Jun 2027
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.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“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 ratings7 Jun 2027
Marked 8.56 — 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 ratings7 Jun 2027
Marked 8.21. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at FH.
Back issues
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Match15 Feb 2027
FH are top
19 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Market15 Feb 2027
Fjolnir come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and FH did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
FH had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Keflavik, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad15 Feb 2027
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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Baldur Kári Helgason and FH agree another 4 years.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“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.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
FH have made the call to Panathinaikos. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Sarpsborg 08 have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
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Upbeat
Market8 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Fjolnir waiting with a shirt. Nobody at FH is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market8 Feb 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. FH have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A move Frane Bobanović would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Frane Bobanović is living that version at FH, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Vikingur wanted more than $23.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at FH
Samuel Kroon and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Baldur Kári Helgason 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
FH have made the call to Keflavik. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
The window opens at FH
A month in which every rumour is possible and most of them are nonsense. The manager has a list, the board has a number, and neither is telling the other the whole of it.