Marked for John Stenberg
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Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
Buster Runheim is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Orebro
Martin Ellingsen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dino Salihović and Orebro agree another 4 years.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Erman Hrastovina, and the manager let it.
Market1 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jakub Ojrzyński’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Orebro will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market11 Jan 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Orebro
Martin Ellingsen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Uneasy
The dugout21 Dec 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Martin Ellingsen plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A welcome sight on the training pitch: Jakub Ojrzyński has come through recovery and is pushing for a place again.
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Uneasy
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Orebro may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Nov 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 Orebro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout30 Nov 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
The name of Martin Ellingsen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Orebro say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
When it matters, Hasan Dana plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Orebro
Antonio Yakoub 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hampus Söderström trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market9 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jakub Ojrzyński’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 7.74 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Orebro
Martin Ellingsen 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The drought breaks for Orebro
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Djurgarden were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
At 23 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 1‑0 win over Djurgarden, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Nils Larsson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Anton Guidetti on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Orebro
Antonio Yakoub and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Orebro
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hampus Söderström, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 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 Anton Guidetti left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
When it matters, Hasan Dana plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Orebro will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 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 Orebro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
7.38, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Orebro had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ahmed Yasin beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Match19 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Kalmar FF defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Nobody at Orebro will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
IFK Goteborg next, and one man in the Orebro dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hampus Söderström trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Olimpija Ljubljana keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Orebro
Antonio Yakoub and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
Falkenberg left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout31 Aug 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 0‑2 Anton Guidetti left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Buster Runheim, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead31 Aug 2026
BK Hacken next, and one man in the Orebro dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
When it matters, Hasan Dana plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.32 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad24 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 Orebro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Liam Uddfalk Lund has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Orebro have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match22 Aug 2026
Three points for Orebro, 2‑1 the final word against Gefle in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Anton Guidetti on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to John Stenberg, and the manager let it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.