Marked for John Bailey
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Uneasy
Player ratings13 Sep 2032
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad13 Sep 2032
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Sep 2032
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.
Squad13 Sep 2032
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Player ratings13 Sep 2032
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.26, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad13 Sep 2032
“The easiest signature of my career.” Daníel Michal Grzegorzsson and Fylkir agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Crisis
Squad17 May 2032
91 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fylkir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad17 May 2032
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 102 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings17 May 2032
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 May 2032
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fylkir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad17 May 2032
Tempers go at Fylkir
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.
Squad17 May 2032
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benedikt Daríus Garðarsson 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.
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Crisis
The terraces12 Apr 2032
Anger at Fylkir 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.
Market12 Apr 2032
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tumi Fannar Gunnarsson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fylkir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Apr 2032
Tempers go at Fylkir
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Squad12 Apr 2032
Arnar Númi Gíslason 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.
Squad12 Apr 2032
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Fylkir know it.
Squad12 Apr 2032
Davíð Ingvarsson has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Fylkir 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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Crisis
Squad9 Feb 2032
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Feb 2032
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Feb 2032
Arnar Númi Gíslason 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.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Dec 2031
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad15 Dec 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Dec 2031
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.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Sep 2031
296 appearances across 19 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Match6 Sep 2031
6 matches without a win for Fylkir
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Fylkir are no longer polite ones.
Market8 Sep 2031
“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.
Market8 Sep 2031
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yaw Asamoah Agyei will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fylkir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad8 Sep 2031
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ragnar Bragi Sveinsson and Fylkir agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Sep 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Sep 2031
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.
Player ratings8 Sep 2031
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings8 Sep 2031
Marked 7.48 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Fylkir had the best player on the pitch.
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Crisis
Match18 Aug 2031
Fylkir sink to position 10
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market18 Aug 2031
“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.
Squad18 Aug 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Aug 2031
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benedikt Daríus Garðarsson 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.
Match16 Aug 2031
Fylkir come up short against KR
KR left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market18 Aug 2031
The phone has started ringing about Holmar Arnason again, and this time the name on the line is Fjolnir. Fylkir are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad18 Aug 2031
“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.
Squad18 Aug 2031
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Market18 Aug 2031
No fee and no drama: John Bailey has signed at Fylkir, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.