Marco Simons

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Viking
2 Jul 2045
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981 Edition

The Viking Sentinel

15 May 2045
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad15 May 2045

Stefan Stamatelopoulos breaks a bone — 93 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad15 May 2045

Tobias Berge damages knee ligaments — 55 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 55 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.

Squad15 May 2045

Niko Colak keeps Viking in it on his own

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.

Match10 May 2045

Mathias Bjorkan sends Viking through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Mathias Bjorkan obliged against IK Start. 3‑2 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Viking.

Match10 May 2045

Viking turn it around against IK Start

Going 2 down does something to a side, and what it usually does is finish them. Not here. Viking rebuilt the afternoon goal by goal, and IK Start had no answer to any of it.

Player ratings15 May 2045

Both of them Mathias Bjorkan's — 8.24

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.24, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings15 May 2045

Noah Okyere, 35, rolls back the years — 7.83

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.83 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match13 May 2045

Viking make home a hard place to visit

12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Market15 May 2045

Stian Daehli hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Viking can pretend not to have heard.

In brief

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929 Edition

The Viking Sentinel

16 May 2044
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad16 May 2044

Niko Colak damages knee ligaments — 82 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 82 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.

Match11 May 2044

Cup progress for Viking

A 4‑2 win over Aalesund, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad16 May 2044

A one-man rearguard from Oier Zon

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.

Squad16 May 2044

A day Samuele Melis will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Market16 May 2044

Only the photograph left for Mathias Selnaes

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mathias Selnaes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Viking the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad16 May 2044

Tempers go at Viking

Max Hagen 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.

Match11 May 2044

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 Viking and Aalesund in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match14 May 2044

6 unbeaten for Viking

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Viking did not have in the autumn.

Player ratings16 May 2044

Samuele Melis was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.27. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

908 Edition

The Viking Sentinel

21 Dec 2043
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Dec 2043

Francesco Panico damages knee ligaments — 50 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 50 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.

Squad21 Dec 2043

Corentin Brandy breaks a bone — 133 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 133 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match21 Dec 2043

Viking up to position 2

53 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

In brief