The IK Start Gazette
The terraces10 Apr 2028
The mood at IK Start has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Match8 Apr 2028
The wait goes on for IK Start
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad10 Apr 2028
A move Alex Chukwuma Uzochukwu 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. Alex Chukwuma Uzochukwu is living that version at IK Start, and it tends to show in the first month.
The dugout10 Apr 2028
Jo Coppens says IK Start went back on their word
“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.
Market10 Apr 2028
Markus Ottesen comes home
The shirt still fits. Markus Ottesen is back at IK Start, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market10 Apr 2028
As if he never left: Charlie Gill returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Charlie Gill is a IK Start player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market10 Apr 2028
Enzo Goes is a IK Start player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market10 Apr 2028
Viktor Bodnár comes home
The shirt still fits. Viktor Bodnár is back at IK Start, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Boardroom10 Apr 2028
5 academy graduates step up at IK Start
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
In brief
- Squad Words at IK Start training over how hard people work
- Squad Alex Chukwuma Uzochukwu in a row with a teammate
- Match IK Start come up short against Egersund