Marked for Billy Bodin
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The dugout13 Sep 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mjondalen may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Up for the corner, and Olav Øby delivers — 7.74
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Olav Øby scored, was marked 7.74, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Damien Janela is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isak Vådebu 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.
Match11 Sep 2027
A 2‑1 win over Stromsgodset, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces13 Sep 2027
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match11 Sep 2027
The drought breaks for Mjondalen
5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Stromsgodset were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The decline has begun for Billy Bodin
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Mjondalen is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Market13 Sep 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Keerat Singh Mann has his answer from Mjondalen; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Uneasy
Match8 May 2027
No end in sight to Mjondalen's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mjondalen has to find a result from somewhere.
Match5 May 2027
Mjondalen bow out of the cup
Rosenborg go through and Mjondalen go home, 0‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The terraces10 May 2027
Mjondalen are taken apart by Rosenborg — and the town wants answers
It finished 0-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Squad10 May 2027
Words exchanged at Mjondalen
Thomas Grøgaard 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isak Vådebu 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.
The dugout10 May 2027
“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.
Boardroom10 May 2027
Nobody left the Mjondalen dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout10 May 2027
A promise honoured for Isak Vådebu
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Mjondalen told Isak Vådebu something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout10 May 2027
The form table has caught Mark Ugboh
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Ryan Delaney out for 85 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Swindon Town will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.81, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Márk Kosznovszky 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 Oct 2026
Aaron Drinan pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Ollie Palmer’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Swindon Town.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Swindon Town
16 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Tranmere Rovers to sit and watch. I want to come back to Swindon Town and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Jack King kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jaylan Pearman, and the manager let it.