Marked for Guðmann Þórisson
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad27 Sep 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 78 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match27 Sep 2027
Keflavik finish in position 11
16 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Market27 Sep 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 The request is on a desk at Keflavik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad27 Sep 2027
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Keflavik
Alpha Conteh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match25 Sep 2027
The drought breaks for Keflavik
6 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Keflavik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jason Daði Svanþórsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match25 Sep 2027
A 1‑0 win over Leiknir, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad9 Aug 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Keflavik will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match9 Aug 2027
Keflavik sink to position 11
8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Keflavik
Guðmann Þórisson 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.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
$85.0K was the most the club would pay and Breidablik were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Match7 Aug 2027
Alpha Conteh scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to IA, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Market9 Aug 2027
The name of Hreggviður Hermannsson has come up in conversations Keflavik were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Marin Brigić 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.
Looking ahead9 Aug 2027
Keflavik face Fjolnir in the game that matters most
Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Muhamed Alghoul
“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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Crisis
Match19 Jun 2027
Nowhere to hide for Keflavik
0‑3 against KR, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Keflavik have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market21 Jun 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Keflavik is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Guðmann Þórisson 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.
Match19 Jun 2027
3 matches without a goal for Keflavik
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Keflavik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jason Daði Svanþórsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
“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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Crisis
Match8 May 2027
Nowhere to hide for Keflavik
0‑3 against Stjarnan, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match8 May 2027
No end in sight to Keflavik's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Keflavik has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad10 May 2027
A row about effort at Keflavik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jason Daði Svanþórsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match8 May 2027
Keflavik are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad10 May 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 Keflavik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout10 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guðmann Þórisson, and the manager let it.
Boardroom10 May 2027
Nobody left the Keflavik 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
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout10 May 2027
Alpha Conteh has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Keflavik 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.
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Crisis
Squad3 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout3 May 2027
Marin Mudražija: 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.” Keflavik have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match1 May 2027
The wait goes on for Keflavik
4 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.
Squad3 May 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 Keflavik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 May 2027
Vikingur left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 May 2027
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 ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
Market3 May 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout3 May 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Steady
Market22 Mar 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 Keflavik can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Guðmann Þórisson 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Keflavik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nacho Heras was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alfred Sigurdsson and Keflavik agree another 3 years.
The dugout22 Mar 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.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Þorlákur Breki Baxter is on it.
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Steady
Squad8 Mar 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.
Market8 Mar 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Stjarnan come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Keflavik did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Guðmann Þórisson commits to Keflavik for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Keflavik
Anton Kralj and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Nacho Heras 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.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market8 Mar 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mikael Finnbogason has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market8 Mar 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Haukur Johannsson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Steady
Squad15 Feb 2027
39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Keflavik lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market15 Feb 2027
Stjarnan arrived with $290.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
Axel Ingi Jóhannesson has gone, the accounts have $290.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Market15 Feb 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 Keflavik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
$190.0K on the table at FH. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Anton Kralj 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 Keflavik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Keflavik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nacho Heras was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Alpha Conteh gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alpha Conteh is on it.
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Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
60 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Keflavik lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Guðmann Þórisson 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Keflavik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nacho Heras 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 dugout25 Jan 2027
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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market25 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Keflavik know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 68 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Anton Kralj 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 Keflavik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Keflavik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marin Brigić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad18 Jan 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; Keflavik are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Keflavik, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Alpha Conteh has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Keflavik 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.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 112 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Keflavik
Guðmann Þórisson 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marin Brigić and Keflavik agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Keflavik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jason Daði Svanþórsson 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 dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marin Brigić, and the manager let it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Ernir Bjarnason has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Keflavik 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.
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Steady
Market19 Oct 2026
Edon Osmani has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Keflavik they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Keflavik
Guðmann Þórisson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Keflavik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jason Daði Svanþórsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Keflavik told Muhamed Alghoul something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market19 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Stefan Alexander Ljubičić signs something — a contract at Keflavik or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
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.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Keflavik
Anton Kralj 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Frans Elvarsson, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Marin Brigić 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 Marin Brigić trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Keflavik. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad12 Oct 2026
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Keflavik the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Keflavik lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Sep 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market14 Sep 2026
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Rúnar Gissurarson is a Keflavik player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Keflavik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nacho Heras 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Keflavik
Rúnar Gissurarson 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 dugout14 Sep 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Mikael Finnbogason left the room before anybody could ask which.