Lars Singh

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Mjondalen U20
17 Mar 2030
Sunday
Process

Marked for Lars Singh

166 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

1 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Mjondalen's wait for a win

22 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mjondalen has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Lars Singh

20 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.

Match

Mjondalen cannot find the net

5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Player ratings

Matías Baroni runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Anders Hiim 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.

Squad

Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Baroni 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.

Market

Kasper Pedersen told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Kasper Pedersen has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Mjondalen.

Squad

Kasper Pedersen 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.

Player ratings

Anders Hiim takes the honours

Marked 7.13 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Mjondalen had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

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165 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

24 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Mjondalen's wait for a win

21 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mjondalen has to find a result from somewhere.

The terraces

The mood at Mjondalen has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Mjondalen

Position 16 and 8 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.

Squad

Lars Singh damages knee ligaments — 28 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Only the photograph left for Emile Callemeyn

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Emile Callemeyn will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Mjondalen the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Mjondalen

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Tempers go at Mjondalen

Anders Hiim 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.

Squad

Matías Baroni 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Mjondalen against Sandefjord

0‑1 to Sandefjord, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief