Marked for Antonio Višković
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match29 Nov 2027
FH refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 43 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kjartan Kári Halldórsson 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.
Squad29 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
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 Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason is on it.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Darri Bergmann Gylfason, and the manager let it.
Market29 Nov 2027
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.
Market29 Nov 2027
FH have made Hilmar Karlsson available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
Tin Božurić knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FH, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad29 Nov 2027
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Continental nights are coming to FH
Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.
Match29 Sep 2027
The small margins put FH out
Out, 0‑1 to Valur, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match4 Oct 2027
FH up to position 2
43 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market4 Oct 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FH can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Oct 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and FH have had the benefit of it.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“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.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Oddgeir Ingi Friðbjörnsson has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Match29 Sep 2027
The run is over for FH
8 matches without defeat, and then Valur. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
In brief
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Squad
A falling-out at FH
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Squad
Words at FH training over how hard people work
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Market
A season away well spent by Kári Kristjánsson
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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.57, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match19 Jun 2027
FH make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now FH have 4 straight wins of it.
Match19 Jun 2027
It finished 3‑1, and it was Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FH.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Tobias Carlsson 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
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.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
A performance of 8.54 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Kari Fridjonsson, on a 3‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
Nobody at FH will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Upbeat
Market8 Mar 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around FH people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match8 Mar 2027
FH refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 18 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market8 Mar 2027
FF Jaro 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FH can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. FH have done the hard part with Javor-Matis, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tobias Carlsson 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 Mar 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 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
FH have made the call to IA. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.