The Haugesund Herald
The terraces10 Jul 2028
Supporters organise against the Haugesund board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad10 Jul 2028
The knee: Kristian Eggen out for 106 days
106 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Haugesund lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match8 Jul 2028
The wait goes on for Haugesund
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market10 Jul 2028
Fabian André Jakobsen is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Haugesund is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom10 Jul 2028
Fabian André Jakobsen has agreed to leave Haugesund for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Haugesund
Miika Koskela 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.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
No hiding place for Håvard Vatland Karlsen
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Håvard Vatland Karlsen, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Parfait Bizoza 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.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Haugesund lose Birger Lien
27 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Player ratings Nothing got past Rasmus Møller
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Almar Grindhaug's mistake
- Player ratings Emil Rohd beats them one at a time