The Mjondalen Chronicle
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Markus Ottesen beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Mjondalen — 7.81
1 for Tobias Flem, marked 7.81, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Match26 Jun 2027
4 matches without a win for Mjondalen
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Mjondalen are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Mjondalen
Thomas Grøgaard 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Oskar Fenger is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Mjondalen count the cost of losing Linus Ween
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Tobias Bjørnebye 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.
Match26 Jun 2027
Tobias Flem rescues a point for Mjondalen
It needed Tobias Flem to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Aalesund, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
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.” Magnus Daehli chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Storm Strand-Kolbjørnsen
- The dugout Thomas Hagelskjær does not fit this one
- Market The Oliver Midtgård question follows Mjondalen around