Marked for Philipp Widmer
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Upbeat
Squad6 Sep 2038
A fracture rules Adrian Svanbäck out for 41 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BK Hacken will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings6 Sep 2038
Sanders Ngabo, 34, rolls back the years — 9.55
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.55 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad6 Sep 2038
Alex Borto has been here 12 seasons
171 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad6 Sep 2038
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BK Hacken this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2038
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ben Engdahl and BK Hacken agree another 2 years.
Match4 Sep 2038
It finished 2‑1, and it was Srđan Hrstić’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to BK Hacken.
Market6 Sep 2038
The name of Adrian Svanbäck keeps appearing in other people's back pages. BK Hacken say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings6 Sep 2038
Nadson leaves them behind him
Shots: 8. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Market6 Sep 2038
BK Hacken have made Philipp Widmer available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
Squad26 Jul 2038
A fracture rules Adrian Svanbäck out for 83 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BK Hacken will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Jul 2038
A knee injury of the worst kind for Manassé Diallo
37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. BK Hacken lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings26 Jul 2038
Sanders Ngabo, 34, rolls back the years — 8.83
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.83 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad26 Jul 2038
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BK Hacken this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market26 Jul 2038
Gefle are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. BK Hacken will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad26 Jul 2038
Nikola Zečević 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.
Match24 Jul 2038
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings26 Jul 2038
The one thing Nadson could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Market26 Jul 2038
BK Hacken have made Philipp Widmer available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
Squad19 Jul 2038
A fracture rules Adrian Svanbäck out for 90 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BK Hacken will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad19 Jul 2038
A knee injury of the worst kind for Manassé Diallo
44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. BK Hacken lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Jul 2038
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings19 Jul 2038
Age has not caught Sanders Ngabo yet — 8.39
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.39 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market19 Jul 2038
The phone has started ringing about Alex Borto again, and this time the name on the line is Gefle. BK Hacken are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad19 Jul 2038
Sanders Ngabo 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.
Market19 Jul 2038
Adis Jašić told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Adis Jašić has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at BK Hacken.
Player ratings19 Jul 2038
Ninety minutes of Nadson at his very best
Marked 8.96. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at BK Hacken.
Match17 Jul 2038
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Steady
Squad12 Jul 2038
A fracture rules Adrian Svanbäck out for 97 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BK Hacken will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad12 Jul 2038
A knee injury of the worst kind for Manassé Diallo
51 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. BK Hacken lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Jul 2038
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match7 Jul 2038
BK Hacken bow out of the cup
IFK Goteborg go through and BK Hacken go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad12 Jul 2038
“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.
Player ratings12 Jul 2038
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings12 Jul 2038
A masterclass from Nadson
Marked 8.97 — 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.
Player ratings12 Jul 2038
Ninety minutes of Philipp Widmer at his very best
Marked 8.62. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at BK Hacken.
Match10 Jul 2038
It finished 1‑0, and it was Nadson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to BK Hacken.
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Upbeat
Squad22 Mar 2038
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. BK Hacken lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad22 Mar 2038
Pontus Dahbo in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BK Hacken this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Mar 2038
Words at BK Hacken training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikola Zečević is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Upbeat
Squad22 Feb 2038
123 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. BK Hacken lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market22 Feb 2038
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at BK Hacken, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad22 Feb 2038
Sanders Ngabo 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.
Market22 Feb 2038
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at BK Hacken is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 Feb 2038
Words at BK Hacken training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elton Hoxha is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad22 Feb 2038
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.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2037
A one-man rearguard from Alex Borto
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2037
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.71, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings14 Sep 2037
Srđan Hrstić, 34, rolls back the years — 8.26
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.26 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad14 Sep 2037
Philipp Widmer: 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.” BK Hacken have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market14 Sep 2037
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at BK Hacken is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Sep 2037
Sanders Ngabo 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.
Match12 Sep 2037
Pontus Dahbo among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Pontus Dahbo on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of BK Hacken and Malmo FF.
Squad14 Sep 2037
Defences have started doubling up on Pontus Dahbo
9 goals and a season average of 7.48 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings14 Sep 2037
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Triumph
Player ratings11 May 2037
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.98, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings11 May 2037
Philipp Widmer could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.74
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.74, 0 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Player ratings11 May 2037
Tim Prica, 35, rolls back the years — 8.60
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.60 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market11 May 2037
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at BK Hacken is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match9 May 2037
Nobody wants to play BK Hacken right now
4 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.
Squad11 May 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BK Hacken this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 May 2037
Words at BK Hacken training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikola Zečević is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings11 May 2037
A performance of 8.96 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Steady
Squad26 Jan 2037
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 Jan 2037
Sanders Ngabo 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.
Squad26 Jan 2037
Words at BK Hacken training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikola Zečević is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Steady
Squad17 Nov 2036
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad17 Nov 2036
“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.
Squad17 Nov 2036
Pontus Dahbo in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BK Hacken this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.