Marked for Beryly Lubala
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad4 Nov 2030
The words a physio says slowly. 16 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 Nov 2030
Tempers go at KR
Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson 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 Nov 2030
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.
Boardroom4 Nov 2030
$1.8M on the table at KR
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad4 Nov 2030
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.
Market4 Nov 2030
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson signs something — a contract at KR or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
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Boardroom
The KR production line keeps running
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Boardroom
The KR board put their names to it
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Boardroom30 Sep 2030
KR have won it
This is the season the town will measure the next twenty against. The trophy travels home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Match28 Sep 2030
Still nobody has beaten KR
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad30 Sep 2030
Tempers go at KR
Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson 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 Sep 2030
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.
Player ratings30 Sep 2030
Nobody could get near Luke Rae
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Sep 2030
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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match16 Sep 2030
KR refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 35 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad16 Sep 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Michael Akoto 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.
Match14 Sep 2030
Luke Rae the difference as KR beat FH
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Luke Rae. 1‑0 against FH, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings16 Sep 2030
A masterclass from Luke Rae
Marked 8.31 — 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.
Squad16 Sep 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Róbert Elís Hlynsson commits to KR for another 4 years.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad26 Aug 2030
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.
Player ratings26 Aug 2030
Two goals and a mark of 8.50 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Tempers go at KR
Michael Akoto 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 Aug 2030
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.
Match24 Aug 2030
Three points for KR, 2‑0 the final word against Valur in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings26 Aug 2030
Luke Rae was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.23. 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.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Beryly Lubala has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at KR will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Player ratings26 Aug 2030
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market26 Aug 2030
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Lee Min Ki leaves KR the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings29 Jul 2030
Luke Rae runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad29 Jul 2030
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad29 Jul 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Jul 2030
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.
Match27 Jul 2030
No time for IBV to settle
The goal that put IBV ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when KR equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Market29 Jul 2030
Stjarnan are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. KR will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Jul 2030
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KR will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match29 Jun 2030
KR win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 91th minute. FH will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings1 Jul 2030
Nobody could get near Luke Rae
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad1 Jul 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Jul 2030
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.
Match29 Jun 2030
KR get the job done against FH
A 1‑0 win over FH, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match8 Apr 2030
KR refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 33 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad8 Apr 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Apr 2030
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.
Boardroom8 Apr 2030
KR release $2.0M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Squad8 Apr 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hjalti Sigurðsson, and the manager let it.
Squad8 Apr 2030
Beryly Lubala has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at KR will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match11 Mar 2030
KR are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 33 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad11 Mar 2030
Tempers go at KR
Michael Akoto 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.
Squad11 Mar 2030
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match11 Feb 2030
KR up to position 3
33 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market11 Feb 2030
“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 KR, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad11 Feb 2030
Tempers go at KR
Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match14 Jan 2030
KR refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 33 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Tempers go at KR
Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson 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.
Squad14 Jan 2030
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 Dec 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Beryly Lubala has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at KR will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Nov 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Nov 2029
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.
Boardroom5 Nov 2029
$2.0M on the table at KR
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Oct 2029
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” KR have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Oct 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Beryly Lubala commits to KR for another 3 years.
Squad8 Oct 2029
Tempers go at KR
Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Oct 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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 ratings1 Oct 2029
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings3 Sep 2029
Luke Rae runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match1 Sep 2029
Still nobody has beaten KR
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Tempers go at KR
Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.
Boardroom3 Sep 2029
KR release $2.0M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason has come out of that comparison in the side, and KR have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Player ratings3 Sep 2029
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.21 on the card, and the KR support went home talking about one name.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Beryly Lubala has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at KR will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Match1 Sep 2029
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Breidablik will be the happier side with the point.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings21 May 2029
Luke Rae runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 56. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 May 2029
Tempers go at KR
Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Squad21 May 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.
Match19 May 2029
KR get the job done against IA
A 1‑0 win over IA, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings21 May 2029
Marked 7.82. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad21 May 2029
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Apr 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Apr 2029
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.
Squad30 Apr 2029
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Apr 2029
Tempers go at KR
Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson 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.
Squad2 Apr 2029
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.
Squad2 Apr 2029
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.