Patrick King

Right Forward - HamKam U18
13 Jan 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Patrick King

44 Edition

The HamKam Gazette

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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 ratings

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 dugout

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

Back issues
43 Edition

The HamKam Gazette

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Luc Mares puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at HamKam, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

30 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.

Player ratings

Tobias Bech scores twice — 9.03

Two goals and a mark of 9.03 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

8 unbeaten for HamKam

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation HamKam did not have in the autumn.

Squad

A falling-out at HamKam

Tomáš Nemčík and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

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.

Match

HamKam see off Rosenborg

Three points for HamKam, 3‑1 the final word against Rosenborg in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Markus Haaland

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

One of those days for Markus Haaland

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

42 Edition

The HamKam Gazette

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

37 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.

Match

Whatever happens, HamKam do not lose

7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Words at HamKam training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Markus Haaland 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.

Player ratings

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 dugout

No hiding place for Martin Gjone

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Gjone, and the manager let it.

Squad

Mads Orrhaug Larsen stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Mads Orrhaug Larsen and HamKam agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Loan watch

Sander Østraat counts the days

“I watch every HamKam game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Sogndal runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Player ratings

Magnus Knudsen was the difference for HamKam

Marked 7.17. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

Marcus Bohinen: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Martin Gjone
  • Looking ahead HamKam take on the side everybody is chasing
  • Squad Martin Gjone wants out of the dugout