Marked for Heiðar Ægisson
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad31 Jul 2028
Böðvar Böðvarsson damages knee ligaments — 130 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 130 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.
Market31 Jul 2028
Stjarnan say no — this time
The offer from Leiknir for Guðmundur Baldvin Nökkvason was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad31 Jul 2028
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Stjarnan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market31 Jul 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stjarnan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Alex Þór Hauksson 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.
Match29 Jul 2028
It finished 1‑0, and it was Alex Þór Hauksson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Stjarnan.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Alpha Conteh 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.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Steady
Market3 Jul 2028
Only the photograph left for Heiðar Ægisson
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Heiðar Ægisson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stjarnan the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad3 Jul 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.
Squad3 Jul 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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
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 Jul 2028
16 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
Stjarnan sign 7 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
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Upbeat
Match31 May 2028
Cup progress for Stjarnan
A 1‑0 win over IBV, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market5 Jun 2028
Only the photograph left for Heiðar Ægisson
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Heiðar Ægisson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stjarnan the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Jun 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.
The terraces5 Jun 2028
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad5 Jun 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.
Squad5 Jun 2028
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.
Market5 Jun 2028
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Andri Rúnar Bjarnason has his answer from Stjarnan; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings5 Jun 2028
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.
Player ratings5 Jun 2028
A mark of 7.52, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Crisis
Market8 May 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 Stjarnan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market8 May 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stjarnan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 May 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emil Atlason and Stjarnan agree another 2 years.
Squad8 May 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.
Boardroom8 May 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Stjarnan
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Match6 May 2028
KR take the points off Stjarnan
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad8 May 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.
Market8 May 2028
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stefan Adalsteinsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 May 2028
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bjorn Halldorsson 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
Squad10 Apr 2028
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stjarnan lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stjarnan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market10 Apr 2028
Heiðar Ægisson has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stjarnan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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Steady
Squad13 Mar 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 71 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.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market13 Mar 2028
Heiðar Ægisson has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stjarnan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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Steady
Squad21 Feb 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 94 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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market21 Feb 2028
“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.
In brief
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Squad
Tempers go at Stjarnan
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Squad
Words at Stjarnan training over how hard people work
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Market
IBV are about to pick up the phone
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Feb 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 101 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
“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.
Market14 Feb 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stjarnan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market14 Feb 2028
Fjolnir come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Stjarnan did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad14 Feb 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
The name of Daníel Finns Matthíasson has come up in conversations Stjarnan were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Steady
Squad7 Feb 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 108 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
“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.
Market7 Feb 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stjarnan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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Steady
Market18 Oct 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 Stjarnan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market18 Oct 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stjarnan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad18 Oct 2027
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.
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Steady
Squad11 Oct 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Stjarnan may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad11 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 Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Stjarnan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andri Rúnar Bjarnason 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.
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Steady
Squad13 Sep 2027
Emil Atlason 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.
Match11 Sep 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Emil Atlason. 2‑1 against Fjolnir, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Ninety minutes of Benedikt V. Warén at his very best
Marked 8.48. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Stjarnan.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Gustav Kjeldsen 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
No place for Ahmed Waheb on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Stjarnan pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Squad13 Sep 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.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Stjarnan had a different afternoon.
Market13 Sep 2027
5 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Stjarnan could ask drops and the wages Jean-Michel Dalberant can ask rise.
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Steady
Squad26 Apr 2027
Emil Atlason 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 Apr 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Heiðar Ægisson 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 Heiðar Ægisson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Stjarnan may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 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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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Stjarnan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guðmundur Kristjánsson 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 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Heiðar Ægisson
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Birnir Snær Ingason has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.