Simon Hojlund

Striker - IK Start
29 Jul 2046
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1042 Edition

The IK Start Gazette

16 Jul 2046
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match14 Jul 2046

IK Start taken apart

0‑6 to Rosenborg, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match14 Jul 2046

The wait goes on for IK Start

9 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.

Squad16 Jul 2046

Jonas Ryerson breaks a bone — 134 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 134 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match14 Jul 2046

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about IK Start and Rosenborg in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad16 Jul 2046

Le Keun Hyeong 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.

Squad16 Jul 2046

The manager makes an example of Ian Timmerman

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings16 Jul 2046

Patrick Johansen runs at them all day

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.

Squad16 Jul 2046

A long afternoon for Le Keun Hyeong

Beaten 6 times, with 3 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.

Boardroom16 Jul 2046

Doors closed at IK Start

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

In brief

Back issues
1034 Edition

The IK Start Gazette

21 May 2046
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 May 2046

Charles Bouygue 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.

Squad21 May 2046

Simon Hojlund signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Simon Hojlund and IK Start agree another 2 years.

Player ratings21 May 2046

Marius Nordal stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.70 on the card, and the IK Start support went home talking about one name.

Squad21 May 2046

Lukas Gausdal has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at IK Start will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Match19 May 2046

Honours even between IK Start and Sandefjord

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings21 May 2046

Patrick Johansen runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

981 Edition

The IK Start Gazette

15 May 2045
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad15 May 2045

A fracture rules Charles Bouygue out for 100 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason IK Start will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match10 May 2045

The cup run ends for IK Start

2‑3 against Viking, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match10 May 2045

IK Start let it slip despite Ole Svensson

Ole Svensson had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Viking were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings15 May 2045

Both of them Patrick Johansen's — 8.49

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.49, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match13 May 2045

The wait goes on for IK Start

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.

Match13 May 2045

IK Start leaking at the back

5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match13 May 2045

Aalesund take the points off IK Start

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The terraces15 May 2045

The crowd has taken to Patrick Johansen

At 21 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.

Squad15 May 2045

Simon Hojlund signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Simon Hojlund and IK Start agree another 2 years.

In brief