Marked for Birkir Þorsteinsson
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Steady
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Breidablik may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ásgeir Helgi Orrason and Breidablik agree another 4 years.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Rafal Stefán Daníelsson 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.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Breidablik told Amin Al-Hamawi something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Too much change too quickly at Breidablik
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Market16 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Rafal Stefán Daníelsson 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.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Aston Villa have kept their man, and Breidablik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match14 Aug 2027
Valur made Breidablik work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market16 Aug 2027
Add another name to the list: Leiknir have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Egill Valur Karlsson. The answer from Breidablik has not changed — yet.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Breidablik.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Steady
Match10 Jul 2027
Whatever happens, Breidablik do not lose
18 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 33. 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.
Match12 Jul 2027
The view from the top for Breidablik
25 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Match10 Jul 2027
Breidablik make home a hard place to visit
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Rafal Stefán Daníelsson 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 dugout12 Jul 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.
Match12 Jul 2027
Half the programme played, position 1, 25 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.
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Match3 Jul 2027
Still nobody has beaten Breidablik
The unbeaten run reaches 17. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Marked 7.89 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Davíð Ingvarsson 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.
The terraces5 Jul 2027
He is 18 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match3 Jul 2027
IA made Breidablik work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Looking ahead5 Jul 2027
The big one: FH come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Breidablik will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.28, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
$2.0M on the table at Breidablik
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
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Match26 Jun 2027
Still nobody has beaten Breidablik
The unbeaten run reaches 16. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Breidablik — 7.64
1 for Viktor Karl Einarsson, marked 7.64, 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.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
Match26 Jun 2027
The run at home goes on for Breidablik
9 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Davíð Ingvarsson 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.
Match26 Jun 2027
Keflavik made Breidablik work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.75 on the card, and the Breidablik support went home talking about one name.
The dugout28 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.” Sigurdur Sigurdsson, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Match2 Jun 2027
A 3‑2 win over Leiknir, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match2 Jun 2027
The 2-goal deficit was real and so was the recovery. Birkir Þorsteinsson was at the centre of it, Leiknir were at the end of it, and everybody who left early will hear about this one for years.
Match5 Jun 2027
Still nobody has beaten Breidablik
The unbeaten run reaches 13. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sesar Örn Harðarson did not need any: 8.35, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Höskuldur Gunnlaugsson 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.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Jun 2027
6 matches without defeat, and then Stjarnan. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
The terraces7 Jun 2027
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rafal Stefán Daníelsson, and the manager let it.
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The dugout22 Mar 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Breidablik have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market22 Mar 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Breidablik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
Transfer targets22 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.
Squad22 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 Breidablik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets22 Mar 2027
Breidablik have made the call to AZ. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Squad22 Mar 2027
He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. Breidablik lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Breidablik that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
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The dugout11 Jan 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Breidablik have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Höskuldur Gunnlaugsson 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andri Skulason has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market11 Jan 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bjorn Bjarnason has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Birkir Þorsteinsson and Breidablik agree another 4 years.
The dugout11 Jan 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Davíð Ingvarsson asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market11 Jan 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Anton Logi Lúðvíksson signs something — a contract at Breidablik or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Breidablik. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Breidablik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“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.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Birkir Þorsteinsson, 17, plays like he has been here for years — 7.70
A mark of 7.70 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 17-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Viktor Karl Einarsson scored, was marked 7.77, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Match5 Sep 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Breidablik and IBV, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match5 Sep 2026
Three points for Breidablik, 4‑2 the final word against IBV in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.23 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Breidablik will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.