Marked for Örvar Eggertsson
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Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 152 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Angelo Nehme 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Sep 2026
Stjarnan cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
José Luis García 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nery Veloso, and the manager let it.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andri Rúnar Bjarnason. 1‑0 against Valur, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad28 Sep 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Stjarnan know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
7.75, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Stjarnan had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Market28 Sep 2026
The name of Örvar Eggertsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Stjarnan say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Stjarnan
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Stjarnan are no longer polite ones.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a goal for Stjarnan
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Stjarnan come up short against IBV
IBV left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Árni Snær Ólafsson, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 4.72, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Stjarnan through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Leiknir, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match12 Aug 2026
There were 89 minutes on the clock and Leiknir had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Stjarnan did not stop to explain themselves.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nery Veloso has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Stjarnan know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.44, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guðmundur Kristjánsson, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nery Veloso asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Match15 Aug 2026
Point won or two lost for Stjarnan?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Vikingur? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Crisis
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
Stjarnan say no — this time
The offer from Breidablik for Daníel Finns Matthíasson 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.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Angelo Nehme 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samúel Kári Friðjónsson, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.