Marked for Patrick Pedersen
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad10 Sep 2040
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mathias Tønnessen
48 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tromso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad10 Sep 2040
A fracture rules David Edvardsson out for 28 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tromso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match8 Sep 2040
There were 89 minutes on the clock and Mjondalen had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Tromso did not stop to explain themselves.
Match8 Sep 2040
Nobody wants to play Tromso right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad10 Sep 2040
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Sep 2040
Three points for Tromso, 1‑0 the final word against Mjondalen in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings10 Sep 2040
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings10 Sep 2040
Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad10 Sep 2040
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Mar 2040
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tromso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad19 Mar 2040
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Mar 2040
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad20 Jun 2039
Ludvig Gjertsen damages knee ligaments — 88 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 88 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match18 Jun 2039
Whatever happens, Tromso do not lose
13 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.
Player ratings20 Jun 2039
Sander Innvær, 34, rolls back the years — 7.91
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.91 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad20 Jun 2039
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tromso may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad20 Jun 2039
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match18 Jun 2039
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sander Innvær. 2‑1 against Viking, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad20 Jun 2039
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Patrick Pedersen and Tromso agree another 3 years.
Market20 Jun 2039
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jens Hjertø-Dahl’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings20 Jun 2039
Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
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Boardroom
The Tromso production line keeps running
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Market
The shop window has Hakon Bohinen in it
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Boardroom
The Tromso board choose calm