Marked for Máni Austmann
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Uneasy
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
The deal with Valur is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Fylkir
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Fylkir asked and Vikingur said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikulás Val Gunnarsson, and the manager let it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Fylkir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christy Grogan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market22 Feb 2027
Marko Polovina is 19, and Fylkir have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Fylkir will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A new face in his position, and Orri Sveinn Segatta suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Fylkir have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market22 Feb 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Fylkir, another week without a signature from Luka Sušanj.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Fylkir
Máni Austmann and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market18 Jan 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Guðmundur Tyrfingsson signs something — a contract at Fylkir or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 29 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Fylkir
Máni Austmann and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Fylkir
Máni Austmann and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kári Sigfússon and Fylkir agree another 3 years.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets12 Oct 2026
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hlynur Sævar Jónsson commits to Fylkir for another 3 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The formation has left Elias Risp behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Fylkir will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market12 Oct 2026
He is 20, and nobody at Fylkir signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Arnar Númi Gíslason is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Fylkir, another week without a signature from Elias Risp.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Birkir Eyþórsson, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets5 Oct 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Fylkir
Máni Austmann and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad5 Oct 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Birkir Eyþórsson has written the date down.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market5 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Eyþór Aron Wöhler signs something — a contract at Fylkir or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market5 Oct 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Dagur Dan Kristinsson leaves Fylkir the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Fylkir
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. IBV kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Fylkir will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match26 Sep 2026
Fylkir and IBV take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Sigurdur Gunnarsson was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the Fylkir dressing room was either.
Squad28 Sep 2026
At 20 he was the best of everybody his age in the division for one weekend. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Market28 Sep 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Guðmundur Tyrfingsson signs something — a contract at Fylkir or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
“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 Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.53 on the card, and the Fylkir support went home talking about one name.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Fylkir will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Sigurdur Gunnarsson chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Stjarnan in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Melker Österberg arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Melker Österberg has, at Fylkir, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Fylkir
Stígur Diljan Þórðarson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Arnar Númi Gíslason
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Arnar Númi Gíslason has come out of that comparison in the side, and Fylkir have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Vikingur in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Máni Austmann knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Máni Austmann trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.40, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over Leiknir, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Match29 Aug 2026
The drought breaks for Fylkir
5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Leiknir were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Sigurdur Gunnarsson could afford to be generous.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Fylkir
Stígur Diljan Þórðarson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Tumi Fannar Gunnarsson had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Fylkir's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fylkir has to find a result from somewhere.
Match22 Aug 2026
FH take the points off Fylkir
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Fylkir
Máni Austmann 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 dugout24 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Fylkir are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.