Marked for Patrick Sorloth
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad22 Nov 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Eric Kitolano 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.
Loan watch22 Nov 2027
The goals keep arriving from Kparobo Arierhi’s exile
15 goals in 21 games at Kalmar FF — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Lillestrom updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Apr 2027
The medical room confirms 45 days on the sidelines for Ruben Gabrielsen, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad12 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lillestrom this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Apr 2027
As if he never left: Hakon Singh returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Hakon Singh is a Lillestrom player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market12 Apr 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market12 Apr 2027
As if he never left: Bjorn Linnes returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Bjorn Linnes is a Lillestrom player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market12 Apr 2027
As if he never left: Erling Hauge returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Erling Hauge is a Lillestrom player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
One of those days for Felix Vá
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.62, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match10 Apr 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Tromso leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.