The Mjondalen Chronicle
Squad6 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Fitim Azemi
89 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mjondalen lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Mathias Bringaker scores twice — 8.40
Two goals and a mark of 8.40 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Marshall Burke keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mjondalen may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Anders Klynge in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mjondalen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Victor Halvorsen 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.
Match4 Sep 2027
Mjondalen see off Valerenga
Three points for Mjondalen, 3‑1 the final word against Valerenga in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
A masterclass from Anders Klynge
Marked 8.84 — 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.
Match4 Sep 2027
Mjondalen settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Valerenga spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Nobody could get near Markus Ottesen
Successful dribbles: 8. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Market Hugo Almeida placed on the list
- Boardroom The Mjondalen dressing room answers
- The terraces The press have found their man in Anders Klynge