Marked for Mathias Bringaker
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Mjondalen
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Mjondalen are no longer polite ones.
Market5 Oct 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Mjondalen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market5 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mjondalen they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ole-Monrad Alme and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match3 Oct 2026
Odd left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kweku Kekeli 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Sander Marthinussen is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Mjondalen
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Mjondalen are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mjondalen they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonas Bruusgaard 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Valerenga left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tord Salte, and the manager let it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Martin Bjorkan left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Keerat Singh Mann is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑5 by Bodo/Glimt, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Mjondalen
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nickolay Årsbog will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Mjondalen the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match29 Aug 2026
Mjondalen leaking at the back
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ole-Monrad Alme 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
Mathias Grundetjern and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sander Marthinussen, and the manager let it.