Marked for Máni Austmann
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad4 Sep 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 53 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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Words at Stjarnan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Örvar Eggertsson 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 ratings4 Sep 2028
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match2 Sep 2028
A bad afternoon for Stjarnan against IBV
0‑1 to IBV, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad4 Sep 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alpha Conteh, and the manager let it.
The terraces4 Sep 2028
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
An afternoon Emil Atlason will want back
Marked 5.54. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Marked 5.57, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Crisis
Squad28 Aug 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aron Snær Friðriksson commits to Stjarnan for another 2 years.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Emil Atlason 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 Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market28 Aug 2028
As if he never left: Daniel Krch returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Daniel Krch is a Stjarnan player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Örvar Eggertsson 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.
Boardroom28 Aug 2028
Breidablik will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Jakub Domagała has pre-agreed a move to Stjarnan, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad28 Aug 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Damil Dankerlui, and the manager let it.
Match26 Aug 2028
0‑1 to Breidablik, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces28 Aug 2028
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2028
4‑0, and Alpha Conteh took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Stjarnan tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A move Máni Austmann would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Máni Austmann is living that version at Stjarnan, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market21 Aug 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad21 Aug 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Words at Stjarnan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Birnir Snær Ingason 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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Emil Atlason
“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 ratings21 Aug 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
A mark of 5.74 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Market31 Jul 2028
“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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
There were 6 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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Match29 Jul 2028
A 2‑1 win over Fjolnir, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
Marked 8.36. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Fylkir.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
Máni Austmann was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.22. 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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ondřej Mastný, and the manager let it.
Market31 Jul 2028
Fylkir have let the market know Eyþór Aron Wöhler can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Steady
Market24 Jul 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Jul 2028
“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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Market24 Jul 2028
Vikingur are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Fylkir will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
7.31, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Fylkir had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad24 Jul 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Máni Austmann, and the manager let it.
Match22 Jul 2028
Fylkir and IA cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. IA came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
Marked 5.23. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Steady
Squad26 Jun 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ólafur Kristófer Helgason 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 Jun 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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 ratings26 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Jun 2028
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad26 Jun 2028
“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.
Match24 Jun 2028
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Leiknir defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Steady
Squad10 Apr 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fylkir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad10 Apr 2028
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.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
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Steady
Squad7 Feb 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.
Market7 Feb 2028
Máni Austmann 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 Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
Market7 Feb 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Fylkir will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bartu Göçmen 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
“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.
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Steady
Squad18 Oct 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fylkir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad18 Oct 2027
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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
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Uneasy
Market6 Sep 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.73, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fylkir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad6 Sep 2027
106 appearances across 8 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 2027
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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Match4 Sep 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nikulás Val Gunnarsson. 2‑0 against Leiknir, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Match28 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Fylkir's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fylkir has to find a result from somewhere.
Market30 Aug 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fylkir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ólafur Kristófer Helgason 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
FH take the points off Fylkir
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danylo Udod, and the manager let it.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
5.55 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Uneasy
Match18 Aug 2027
Fylkir out of the cup
Breidablik ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market23 Aug 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Fylkir
8 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Ondřej Mastný: 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.” Fylkir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad23 Aug 2027
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Fylkir are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match21 Aug 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Keflavik leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Market16 Aug 2027
“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.
Match14 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Fylkir's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fylkir has to find a result from somewhere.
Market16 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Hilmar Þór Kjærnested Helgason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fylkir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Fylkir are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
The goals have deserted Fylkir
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Fylkir can tell you which week it ends in.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
Fylkir supporters have found a favourite in Danylo Udod
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Danylo Udod has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ondřej Mastný, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad19 Jul 2027
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Ondřej Mastný: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ólafur Kristófer Helgason 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ondřej Mastný has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Fylkir.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nahuel Gambino, and the manager let it.
The terraces19 Jul 2027
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match17 Jul 2027
Fylkir and IA cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. IA came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Steady
Match26 Jun 2027
Still nobody has beaten Fylkir
The unbeaten run reaches 13. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market28 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Jun 2027
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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Danylo Udod gets it from the manager
“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 ratings28 Jun 2027
Marked 8.52. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Fylkir.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
5.36 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Máni Austmann: 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.” Fylkir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.