The HamKam Gazette
Squad31 May 2027
21 days out for Patrick King after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. HamKam will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market31 May 2027
William Osnes-Ringen has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around HamKam they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match29 May 2027
Haugesund end the HamKam run at 8
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 8 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Squad31 May 2027
Words exchanged at HamKam
Henrik Udahl 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.
Squad31 May 2027
Simon Lande Aasvik gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Simon Lande Aasvik has just signed for HamKam, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at HamKam training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Loris Mettler 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.
Match29 May 2027
A bad afternoon for HamKam against Haugesund
0‑1 to Haugesund, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Markus Haaland was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
The dugout31 May 2027
No hiding place for Preben Asp
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Preben Asp, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Kevin Krygård's mistake
- The dugout Marcus Bohinen faces the questions
- Market A long bet from HamKam on Simon Lande Aasvik