The IBV Gazette
Match1 May 2027
8 matches without a win for IBV
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around IBV are no longer polite ones.
The dugout3 May 2027
Viggó Valgeirsson: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” IBV have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings3 May 2027
A defender's goal wins it for IBV — 7.37
1 for Vicente Valor, marked 7.37, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad3 May 2027
Tempers go at IBV
Hermann Þór Ragnarsson 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.
Match1 May 2027
6 goals as IBV and Valur go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between IBV and Valur, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match1 May 2027
IBV come up short against Valur
Valur left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom3 May 2027
4 academy graduates step up at IBV
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad3 May 2027
Elvis Bwomono 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.
Market3 May 2027
Ari Eyjolfsson steps up from the IBV academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ari Eyjolfsson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Olafur Finnbogason joins the IBV first team
- Market Kristinn Thorsteinsson steps up from the IBV academy
- Market IBV promote Kolbeinn Bjarnason from within