Marked for César Quintero
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match5 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for BK Hacken
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around BK Hacken are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Etrit Berisha 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Adam Lundkvist and BK Hacken agree another 2 years.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.19, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.73 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.66, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 3‑3 draw with Orebro leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 29, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 27, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market24 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Andreas Linde
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andreas Linde will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around BK Hacken the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to BK Hacken's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at BK Hacken has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Etrit Berisha 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gustav Lindgren, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Shots: 6. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Everybody has an opinion about Etrit Berisha
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
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Crisis
Match15 Aug 2026
BK Hacken bow out of the cup
Halmstad go through and BK Hacken go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad17 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 BK Hacken this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
David Seger has left for Hammarby in a $530.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.90, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Adam Lundkvist
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Etrit Berisha knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Shots: 9, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market17 Aug 2026
BK Hacken bring in an old head
César Quintero is 38 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.