The IA Gazette
Match14 Aug 2028
IA are in real trouble now
Position 10, 13 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market14 Aug 2028
Artur Pląskowski hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what IA can pretend not to have heard.
Match12 Aug 2028
5 matches without a win for IA
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around IA are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Tempers go at IA
Guðmundur Þórarinsson 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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Kevin Fischer gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kevin Fischer has just signed for IA, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Words at IA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ómar Björn Stefánsson 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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Árni Marinó Einarsson gets it from the manager
“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.
Match12 Aug 2028
IA make home a hard place to visit
8 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.
Market14 Aug 2028
A long bet from IA on Kevin Fischer
He is 18, and nobody at IA signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
In brief
- Player ratings Ómar Björn Stefánsson runs at them all day
- Match IA and Keflavik cancel each other out
- Market The Árni Marinó Einarsson talk will not go away