Marked for Einar Örn Harðarson
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match29 Aug 2026
Vikingur left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Mikael Finnbogason after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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 dugout31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
At 20 he was the best of everybody his age in the division for one weekend. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Óskar Dagur Jónasson did not need any: 7.75, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Fjolnir — 7.64
1 for Patryk Hryniewicki, marked 7.64, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Fylkir is saying, and nobody at Fjolnir is enjoying the guessing.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 20 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over Leiknir, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Fjolnir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patryk Hryniewicki 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 dugout24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Fjolnir are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
A Fjolnir teenager takes the young player award
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Squad
Patryk Hryniewicki finally opens his account