Marked for Heiðar Ægisson
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad18 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Stjarnan
Heiðar Ægisson 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 dugout18 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.
Back issues
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Squad11 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Stjarnan
Emil Atlason and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout11 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Nobody at Stjarnan 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Örvar Eggertsson signs something — a contract at Stjarnan or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Benedikt V. Warén trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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The dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Stjarnan
Heiðar Ægisson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market30 Nov 2026
The Emil Atlason talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Stjarnan know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Nobody at Stjarnan 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.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
9 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Jóhann Árni Gunnarsson has written the date down.
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The dugout23 Nov 2026
Heiðar Ægisson: 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.” Stjarnan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Nobody at Stjarnan 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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Match12 Oct 2026
Stjarnan are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 20 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad12 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 Stjarnan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guðmundur Rafn Ingason, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Stjarnan that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.