Marked for Elliott Andersson
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match15 Jul 2028
FH go through and Breidablik go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market17 Jul 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad17 Jul 2028
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Anton Ari Einarsson: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
The dugout17 Jul 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Breidablik may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
A defender's goal wins it for Breidablik — 7.28
1 for Viktor Karl Einarsson, marked 7.28, 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.
The dugout17 Jul 2028
This is not rotation. Óli Valur Ómarsson has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Breidablik is pretending otherwise.
Squad17 Jul 2028
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 targets17 Jul 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shrewsbury Town have kept their man, and Breidablik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
A performance of 8.52 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Back issues
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Crisis
The terraces31 Jan 2028
Anger at Breidablik spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad31 Jan 2028
50 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Breidablik lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market31 Jan 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Breidablik they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
This is not rotation. Óli Valur Ómarsson has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Breidablik is pretending otherwise.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Words at Breidablik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kristófer Ingi Kristinsson 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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Birkir Þorsteinsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad13 Dec 2027
102 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Breidablik lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match13 Dec 2027
Every point is an argument now for Breidablik
Position 10 and 26 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Denis Krivosic is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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 dugout13 Dec 2027
This is not rotation. Gabríel Aron Sævarsson has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Breidablik is pretending otherwise.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Birkir Þorsteinsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad13 Dec 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Elliott Andersson and Breidablik agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces6 Dec 2027
Supporters organise against the Breidablik board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Boardroom6 Dec 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market6 Dec 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Breidablik they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad6 Dec 2027
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
This is not rotation. Ágúst Orri Þorsteinsson has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Breidablik is pretending otherwise.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 37 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Breidablik is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Words at Breidablik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kristófer Ingi Kristinsson 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.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Birkir Þorsteinsson 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 dugout6 Dec 2027
The manager's exit leaves Kristinn Jónsson exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Kristinn Jónsson is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.