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Upbeat
Match21 Jun 2027
Vikingur up to position 2
15 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad21 Jun 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 Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Róbert Orri Þorkelsson and Vikingur agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad21 Jun 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.
Match19 Jun 2027
Three points for Vikingur, 2‑0 the final word against Fjolnir in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
A performance of 8.73 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.50, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Lazar Radojičić
“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.
Loan watch21 Jun 2027
“I watch every Vikingur game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at IA runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Back issues
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Squad7 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ingvar Jónsson
22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Vikingur lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match2 Jun 2027
Vikingur march on in the cup
Fjolnir are out and Vikingur go through, 3‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market7 Jun 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.
Match5 Jun 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Vikingur did not have in the autumn.
Squad7 Jun 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 Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Jasper Torkildsen 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.
Loan watch7 Jun 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Vikingur, and 1 appearances in 8 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad7 Jun 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.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Tarik Ibrahimagic was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.53. 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.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
148 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Vikingur lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad19 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 Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 9 of the 25 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jóhannes Kristinn Bjarnason did not need any: 8.28, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Gylfi Sigurðsson 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Sergey Bugriev 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
At 21 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Erlingur Agnarsson again, and this time the name on the line is Fylkir. Vikingur are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad17 Aug 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.