From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Dec 2029
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. FH will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad31 Dec 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Dec 2029
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Squad31 Dec 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alfred Fridjonsson and FH agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout31 Dec 2029
Nobody at FH 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.
The dugout31 Dec 2029
The manager makes an example of Gils Gíslason
“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.
The dugout31 Dec 2029
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Eyþór Aron Wöhler trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market31 Dec 2029
The name of Birkir Valur Jónsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. FH say nothing, which says plenty.
Boardroom31 Dec 2029
The FH production line keeps running
41 graduates out of an academy now rated 9 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager plants his flag on Tobias Carlsson
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Boardroom
The FH board put their names to it
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From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Dec 2029
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FH will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match24 Dec 2029
FH are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 49 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad24 Dec 2029
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Dec 2029
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
The dugout24 Dec 2029
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.
Market24 Dec 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kristján Flóki Finnbogason’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market24 Dec 2029
“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.
The dugout24 Dec 2029
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at FH. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout24 Dec 2029
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Dec 2029
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Tobias Carlsson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad17 Dec 2029
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad17 Dec 2029
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adolf Daði Birgisson 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Dec 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad10 Dec 2029
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Jökull Andrésson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad10 Dec 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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 dugout10 Dec 2029
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.
Market10 Dec 2029
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kjartan Kári Halldórsson signs something — a contract at FH or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Dec 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Óskar Jónsson
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FH lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad3 Dec 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tobias Carlsson and FH agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Dec 2029
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Squad3 Dec 2029
Words exchanged at FH
Agustín Esposto 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.
The dugout3 Dec 2029
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Kjartan Kári Halldórsson is on it.
The dugout3 Dec 2029
The manager makes an example of Gils Gíslason
“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.
Market3 Dec 2029
The name of Birkir Valur Jónsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. FH say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout3 Dec 2029
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.
Boardroom3 Dec 2029
The FH production line keeps running
41 graduates out of an academy now rated 9 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Nov 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Óskar Jónsson
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FH lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Nov 2029
FH refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 49 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad26 Nov 2029
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout26 Nov 2029
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Birkir Valur Jónsson is on it.
Market26 Nov 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kristján Flóki Finnbogason’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout26 Nov 2029
Gils Gíslason 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Nov 2029
31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. FH lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom19 Nov 2029
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ari Gudmundsson has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad19 Nov 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Nov 2029
Nobody at FH 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.
The dugout19 Nov 2029
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Eyþór Aron Wöhler trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market19 Nov 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jökull Andrésson’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Nov 2029
38 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. FH lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout12 Nov 2029
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FH have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market12 Nov 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bjarni Guðjón Brynjólfsson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FH the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Nov 2029
45 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad12 Nov 2029
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad12 Nov 2029
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Nov 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Óskar Jónsson
46 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FH lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad5 Nov 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout5 Nov 2029
Nobody at FH 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.
Squad5 Nov 2029
FH will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Squad5 Nov 2029
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Market5 Nov 2029
The name of Birkir Valur Jónsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. FH say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
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The dugout
Tobias Carlsson keeps his manager's vote
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Boardroom
The FH production line keeps running
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Boardroom
The FH board put their names to it
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match29 Oct 2029
FH refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 49 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad29 Oct 2029
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad29 Oct 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad29 Oct 2029
45 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout29 Oct 2029
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.
Market29 Oct 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kristján Flóki Finnbogason’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad22 Oct 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad22 Oct 2029
A falling-out at FH
Birkir Þorsteinsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout22 Oct 2029
Nobody at FH 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market15 Oct 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad15 Oct 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Birkir Þorsteinsson commits to FH for another 5 years.
Squad15 Oct 2029
A falling-out at FH
Agustín Esposto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout15 Oct 2029
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 dugout15 Oct 2029
The manager makes an example of Gils Gíslason
“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.
Market15 Oct 2029
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kjartan Kári Halldórsson signs something — a contract at FH or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market8 Oct 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FH they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad8 Oct 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kristján Flóki Finnbogason commits to FH for another 2 years.
Squad8 Oct 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Oct 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Oct 2029
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Arnór Borg Guðjohnsen has come out of that comparison in the side, and FH have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout8 Oct 2029
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.
Market8 Oct 2029
The name of Birkir Valur Jónsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. FH say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout8 Oct 2029
Gils Gíslason 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.
Boardroom8 Oct 2029
The FH academy earns its keep
41 graduates, from a department now rated 9 out of 20. Nothing about the academy appears in a result, and nothing about the club’s future exists without it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom1 Oct 2029
FH are in Europe
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Match1 Oct 2029
FH finish in position 2
49 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Match1 Oct 2029
FH up to position 2
49 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings1 Oct 2029
Marked 7.83 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad1 Oct 2029
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. FH had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Squad1 Oct 2029
The one award nobody else on the pitch can win goes to Jökull Andrésson, on 12 clean sheets across the season. Keepers wait a career for a season like it.
Match29 Sep 2029
A bad afternoon for FH against Breidablik
2‑3 to Breidablik, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Tempers go at FH
Aron Jónsson 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.
Player ratings1 Oct 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.21, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Upbeat
Squad24 Sep 2029
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Match22 Sep 2029
Keflavik made FH work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Getting past Jökull Andrésson has become the hardest job in the division
12 clean sheets and counting. Forwards used to back themselves here; now they shoot early, shoot wide, and look for somebody to blame.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Aron Fridjonsson, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
Nobody at FH 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.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Looking ahead24 Sep 2029
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Arnór Borg Guðjohnsen’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and FH needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market24 Sep 2029
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kristján Flóki Finnbogason signs something — a contract at FH or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Market17 Sep 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FH they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings17 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Sep 2029
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad17 Sep 2029
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Squad17 Sep 2029
8 goals and a season average of 7.30 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad17 Sep 2029
11 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.
The dugout17 Sep 2029
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 dugout17 Sep 2029
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Aron Fridjonsson was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the FH dressing room was either.
The dugout17 Sep 2029
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Upbeat
Match10 Sep 2029
The view from the top for FH
45 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market10 Sep 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FH they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad10 Sep 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Match8 Sep 2029
FH come up short against Valur
Valur left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match8 Sep 2029
The run is over for FH
4 matches without defeat, and then Valur. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
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 Aron Fridjonsson left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Triumph
Match1 Sep 2029
The 87th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Birkir Þorsteinsson decided nobody was going anywhere. Fylkir had no time left to answer.
Player ratings3 Sep 2029
Marked 7.74 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match1 Sep 2029
FH make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now FH have 4 straight wins of it.
Market3 Sep 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets3 Sep 2029
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.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Words exchanged at FH
Birkir Þorsteinsson 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.
The terraces3 Sep 2029
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.
Match1 Sep 2029
It finished 2‑0, and it was Birkir Þorsteinsson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FH.
Looking ahead3 Sep 2029
The big one: Valur come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. FH will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
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Triumph
Match25 Aug 2029
5‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.85, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Transfer targets27 Aug 2029
FH had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Manchester City, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Match25 Aug 2029
FH cannot stop winning
3 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.
Match25 Aug 2029
6 goals in one match, Kristján Flóki Finnbogason on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of FH and Fjolnir.
Squad27 Aug 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets27 Aug 2029
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.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.58, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
A performance of 8.35 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Triumph
Market20 Aug 2029
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Stjarnan waiting with a shirt. Nobody at FH is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market20 Aug 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom20 Aug 2029
FH close the window on a squad of their own making
11 in and 4 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Match18 Aug 2029
6 unbeaten for FH
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation FH did not have in the autumn.
Squad20 Aug 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets20 Aug 2029
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.
Match18 Aug 2029
FH see off IA
Three points for FH, 2‑0 the final word against IA in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings20 Aug 2029
Marked 8.54 — 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.
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Upbeat
Match13 Aug 2029
FH are top
36 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Market13 Aug 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets13 Aug 2029
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. FH have done the hard part with Rosenborg, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets13 Aug 2029
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Cosenza is saying, and nobody at FH is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets13 Aug 2029
FH asked and Perugia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market13 Aug 2029
The phone has started ringing about Hilmar Karlsson again, and this time the name on the line is Stjarnan. FH are listening politely and promising nothing.
Match11 Aug 2029
It finished 1‑0, and it was Adolf Daði Birgisson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FH.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Adolf Daði Birgisson was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.30. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad13 Aug 2029
A season average of 7.22 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Upbeat
Squad6 Aug 2029
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. FH will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market6 Aug 2029
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Hilmar Karlsson had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market6 Aug 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FH can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Aug 2029
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad6 Aug 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
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.
Player ratings6 Aug 2029
Marked 8.27. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at FH.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Birkir Þorsteinsson is the division's best young player this month
At 20 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. FH will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Match4 Aug 2029
A point taken on 88 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
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Triumph
Squad30 Jul 2029
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FH will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings30 Jul 2029
Birkir Þorsteinsson, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.66
A mark of 7.66 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match28 Jul 2029
Nobody wants to play FH right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2029
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.
The terraces30 Jul 2029
He is 20 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.
Match28 Jul 2029
Three points for FH, 2‑0 the final word against Vikingur in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings30 Jul 2029
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
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Triumph
Squad23 Jul 2029
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FH will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match21 Jul 2029
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market23 Jul 2029
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around FH people have started saying his name in the past tense.
The dugout23 Jul 2029
“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.
Market23 Jul 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FH they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2029
The deal with Valur is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2029
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Manchester City keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Match21 Jul 2029
Another one collected away from home
5 on the bounce on the road for FH. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
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Upbeat
Match11 Jul 2029
The cup run ends for FH
0‑1 against IA, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match16 Jul 2029
FH are top
26 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market16 Jul 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FH they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match14 Jul 2029
FH are at home on the road
4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Squad16 Jul 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad16 Jul 2029
Tempers go at FH
Birkir Þorsteinsson 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.
Match14 Jul 2029
Breidablik made FH work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
Marked 8.36. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at FH.
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Triumph
Match7 Jul 2029
Nobody wants to play FH right now
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings9 Jul 2029
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.85, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad9 Jul 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dennis Olsson and FH agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Match7 Jul 2029
FH get the job done against Keflavik
A 2‑0 win over Keflavik, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings9 Jul 2029
Marked 8.31. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at FH.
Player ratings9 Jul 2029
8.05. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Words exchanged at FH
Dagur Traustason 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.
The dugout9 Jul 2029
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Triumph
Match30 Jun 2029
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Kjartan Kári Halldórsson scored in the 89th minute, KR had already begun thinking about the journey home, and FH took the lot.
Match30 Jun 2029
Nobody wants to play FH right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad2 Jul 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dennis Olsson commits to FH for another 2 years.
Match30 Jun 2029
FH keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Match30 Jun 2029
FH get the job done against KR
A 1‑0 win over KR, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
8.22. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad2 Jul 2029
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Eyþór Aron Wöhler has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
Intake day at the FH academy
7 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
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Upbeat
Squad25 Jun 2029
15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. FH lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings25 Jun 2029
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kristján Flóki Finnbogason provided it, and the 8.87 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market25 Jun 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match23 Jun 2029
Nobody wants to play FH right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Match23 Jun 2029
Three points for FH, 3‑2 the final word against Valur in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad25 Jun 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Jun 2029
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑2, Aron Fridjonsson could afford to be generous.
The dugout25 Jun 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sverrir Páll Hjaltested, and the manager let it.
The dugout25 Jun 2029
Nobody at FH 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.
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Upbeat
Squad18 Jun 2029
The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match16 Jun 2029
4‑1, and Kjartan Kári Halldórsson took the headlines on an afternoon when everything FH tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad18 Jun 2029
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match18 Jun 2029
FH are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 14 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market18 Jun 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad18 Jun 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jun 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings18 Jun 2029
Marked 8.54. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at FH.
Looking ahead18 Jun 2029
Top-of-the-table clash for FH
Valur next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jun 2029
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FH lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout11 Jun 2029
“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 Jun 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Eyþór Aron Wöhler commits to FH for another 4 years.
Squad11 Jun 2029
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match9 Jun 2029
FH get the job done against Fjolnir
A 1‑0 win over Fjolnir, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings11 Jun 2029
Marked 8.07 — 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.
The dugout11 Jun 2029
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Aron Fridjonsson kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout11 Jun 2029
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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.
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Steady
Squad4 Jun 2029
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad4 Jun 2029
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Player ratings4 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
Player ratings4 Jun 2029
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 9 actions, 7.12, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Squad4 Jun 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hilmar Karlsson commits to FH for another 4 years.
Squad4 Jun 2029
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Birkir Valur Jónsson has come out of that comparison in the side, and FH have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout4 Jun 2029
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout4 Jun 2029
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 dugout4 Jun 2029
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Upbeat
Market28 May 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 May 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 May 2029
Tempers go at FH
Birkir Þorsteinsson 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.
Match26 May 2029
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kjartan Kári Halldórsson. 1‑0 against IBV, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings28 May 2029
Marked 8.08 — 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.
The dugout28 May 2029
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Aron Fridjonsson on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout28 May 2029
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jökull Andrésson is on it.
Looking ahead28 May 2029
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Eyþór Aron Wöhler’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and FH needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market28 May 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Market21 May 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FH they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings21 May 2029
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
Match19 May 2029
FH come up short against Stjarnan
Stjarnan left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout21 May 2029
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 Aron Fridjonsson left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad21 May 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 May 2029
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.
Looking ahead21 May 2029
IBV next, and one man in the FH dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market21 May 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout21 May 2029
The plan did not have a place for Hilmar Karlsson
Nobody at FH is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Steady
Squad14 May 2029
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad14 May 2029
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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 dugout14 May 2029
Nobody at FH 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.
The dugout14 May 2029
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Aron Fridjonsson was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the FH dressing room was either.
Match12 May 2029
No goals between FH and Vikingur
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Vikingur will be the happier side with the point.
Looking ahead14 May 2029
Stjarnan next, and one man in the FH dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market14 May 2029
The name of Kjartan Kári Halldórsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. FH say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings14 May 2029
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout14 May 2029
Tobias Carlsson is not enjoying his job description
Played out of position, hooked on the hour, asked to be somebody he is not — the details vary and the mood does not. FH have a player doing his work under protest.
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Steady
Match5 May 2029
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings7 May 2029
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.09 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings7 May 2029
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom7 May 2029
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Squad7 May 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tobias Carlsson commits to FH for another 2 years.
Match5 May 2029
The run at home goes on for FH
10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Boardroom7 May 2029
Graduation day at FH
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad7 May 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market7 May 2029
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Olafur Finnbogason has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Steady
Market30 Apr 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad30 Apr 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout30 Apr 2029
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jökull Andrésson is on it.
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Steady
Market23 Apr 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Birkir Þorsteinsson is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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 dugout23 Apr 2029
Nobody at FH 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.
Market23 Apr 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad16 Apr 2029
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
The dugout16 Apr 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Birkir Þorsteinsson, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Apr 2029
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Birkir Valur Jónsson is on it.
Squad16 Apr 2029
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and FH will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Market16 Apr 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Arnór Borg Guðjohnsen’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout16 Apr 2029
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.
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Steady
Transfer targets9 Apr 2029
FH asked and Pro Vercelli said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad9 Apr 2029
Words exchanged at FH
Birkir Þorsteinsson 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.
The dugout9 Apr 2029
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.
Market9 Apr 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout9 Apr 2029
“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.
Squad9 Apr 2029
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
The dugout9 Apr 2029
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Kjartan Kári Halldórsson’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
Squad9 Apr 2029
The training reports on Hilmar Karlsson are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
Boardroom9 Apr 2029
FH keep producing them
36 graduates from an academy now rated 9 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.
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Steady
Market2 Apr 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
Deadline passes with 1 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at FH until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market2 Apr 2029
FH say no — this time
The offer from IFK Mariehamn for Hilmar Karlsson 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.
Transfer targets2 Apr 2029
FH offered $450.0K; Stjarnan said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Transfer targets2 Apr 2029
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rapid Wien have kept their man, and FH go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Tempers go at FH
Dagur Traustason 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.
Market2 Apr 2029
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Arngrímur Bjartur Guðmundsson has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at FH.
The dugout2 Apr 2029
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.
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Market26 Mar 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FH they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Transfer targets26 Mar 2029
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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Dagur Traustason, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad26 Mar 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dagur Traustason commits to FH for another 3 years.
Transfer targets26 Mar 2029
A loan move for Brandon Gómez is in the works
FH have made the call to Torres. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets26 Mar 2029
Rosenborg have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
Nobody at FH 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.
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Transfer targets19 Mar 2029
No thanks: Noah Sahsah rejects the move
FH had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Rosenborg, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets19 Mar 2029
FH have made the call to Pro Vercelli. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout19 Mar 2029
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.
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Transfer targets12 Mar 2029
FH had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Metalist, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets12 Mar 2029
The offer went to Stjarnan this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad12 Mar 2029
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Mar 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets12 Mar 2029
FH asked and Ascoli said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets12 Mar 2029
A loan move for Noah Sahsah is in the works
FH have made the call to Rosenborg. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout12 Mar 2029
Nobody at FH 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.
Market12 Mar 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout12 Mar 2029
Aron Jónsson knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Aron Jónsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Market5 Mar 2029
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around FH people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets5 Mar 2029
The deal with Stjarnan is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad5 Mar 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kjartan Kári Halldórsson commits to FH for another 4 years.
Transfer targets5 Mar 2029
$450.0K was the most the club would pay and Stjarnan were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad5 Mar 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Transfer targets5 Mar 2029
FH asked and Ferencvaros said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets5 Mar 2029
Metalist have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout5 Mar 2029
Jökull Andrésson has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at FH 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.
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Market26 Feb 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FH they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market26 Feb 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets26 Feb 2029
$450.0K on the table at Stjarnan. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Transfer targets26 Feb 2029
FH asked and Ferencvaros said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout26 Feb 2029
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Kjartan Kári Halldórsson is on it.
Market26 Feb 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Match26 Feb 2029
FH in the hunt for Europe
Position 5, 38 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
The dugout26 Feb 2029
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Tobias Carlsson has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Transfer targets19 Feb 2029
No thanks: Augusto Bando rejects the move
FH had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Ascoli, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Squad19 Feb 2029
A falling-out at FH
Birkir Þorsteinsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market19 Feb 2029
Add another name to the list: IA have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Dagur Traustason. The answer from FH has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets19 Feb 2029
A loan enquiry to Ferencvaros: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
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.
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Market12 Feb 2029
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Leiknir waiting with a shirt. Nobody at FH is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2029
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.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
“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.
Squad12 Feb 2029
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. FH know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market12 Feb 2029
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. FH told Eyþór Aron Wöhler something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Words exchanged at FH
Dagur Traustason 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.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2029
A loan move for Augusto Bando is in the works
FH have made the call to Ascoli. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Squad5 Feb 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets5 Feb 2029
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.
Transfer targets5 Feb 2029
A loan enquiry to Metalist: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets5 Feb 2029
FH have made the call to Pro Vercelli. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
Jökull Andrésson has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at FH 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.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
“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.
Market5 Feb 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
The window opens at FH
A month in which every rumour is possible and most of them are nonsense. The manager has a list, the board has a number, and neither is telling the other the whole of it.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
Gils Gíslason 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.
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Squad29 Jan 2029
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
The dugout29 Jan 2029
Nobody at FH 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.
Market29 Jan 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Match29 Jan 2029
Continental football is in reach for FH
38 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
The dugout29 Jan 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FH, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout29 Jan 2029
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Jökull Andrésson plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Squad22 Jan 2029
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad22 Jan 2029
37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad22 Jan 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Birkir Þorsteinsson and FH agree another 5 years.
Squad22 Jan 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market22 Jan 2029
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Holmar Halldorsson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market22 Jan 2029
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kristinn Hermannsson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market22 Jan 2029
One of our own: Andri Palsson joins the FH first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andri Palsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market22 Jan 2029
One of our own: Olafur Ingason joins the FH first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Olafur Ingason is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout22 Jan 2029
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Birkir Valur Jónsson is on it.
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Squad15 Jan 2029
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Kristján Flóki Finnbogason is on it.
Market15 Jan 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
Aron Jónsson 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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at FH would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Birkir Valur Jónsson has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Squad8 Jan 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
Jökull Andrésson has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at FH 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.
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Squad1 Jan 2029
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and FH have had the benefit of it.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad1 Jan 2029
23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad1 Jan 2029
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Jan 2029
Nobody at FH 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.
Market1 Jan 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Match1 Jan 2029
FH in the hunt for Europe
Position 5, 38 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
The dugout1 Jan 2029
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 dugout1 Jan 2029
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Kristján Flóki Finnbogason plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Boardroom
FH keep producing them
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Boardroom
FH board back the manager
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Squad25 Dec 2028
A falling-out at FH
Dagur Traustason and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout25 Dec 2028
Nobody at FH 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.
The dugout25 Dec 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gils Gíslason, and the manager let it.
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Squad18 Dec 2028
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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 dugout18 Dec 2028
Nobody at FH 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.
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Squad11 Dec 2028
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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 dugout11 Dec 2028
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 dugout11 Dec 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hilmar Karlsson, and the manager let it.
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Squad4 Dec 2028
54 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dennis Olsson commits to FH for another 2 years.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
The manager makes an example of Aron Jónsson
“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.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
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.
Market4 Dec 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Match4 Dec 2028
FH in the hunt for Europe
Position 5, 38 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hilmar Karlsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Arnór Borg Guðjohnsen has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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The dugout27 Nov 2028
Aron Jónsson: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FH have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad27 Nov 2028
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad27 Nov 2028
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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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Steady
Squad20 Nov 2028
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad20 Nov 2028
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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 dugout20 Nov 2028
Nobody at FH 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.
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Squad13 Nov 2028
Tempers go at FH
Birkir Þorsteinsson 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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adolf Daði Birgisson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout13 Nov 2028
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jökull Andrésson is on it.
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The dugout6 Nov 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FH may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad6 Nov 2028
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad6 Nov 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout6 Nov 2028
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Kjartan Kári Halldórsson is on it.
Market6 Nov 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Match6 Nov 2028
Continental football is in reach for FH
38 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
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Steady
Squad30 Oct 2028
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad30 Oct 2028
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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 dugout30 Oct 2028
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.
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The dugout23 Oct 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FH may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
Nobody at FH 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.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hilmar Karlsson, and the manager let it.
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The dugout16 Oct 2028
“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.
Squad16 Oct 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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 dugout16 Oct 2028
Jökull Andrésson has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at FH 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.
Market16 Oct 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout16 Oct 2028
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Tobias Carlsson has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Squad9 Oct 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tobias Carlsson and FH agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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 dugout9 Oct 2028
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Kjartan Kári Halldórsson is on it.
The dugout9 Oct 2028
Aron Jónsson 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.
Market9 Oct 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad9 Oct 2028
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at FH that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Match9 Oct 2028
FH in the hunt for Europe
Position 5, 38 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
The dugout9 Oct 2028
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at FH. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
Silverware for FH
They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.
Squad2 Oct 2028
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match30 Sep 2028
FH through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Breidablik, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match27 Sep 2028
FH march on in the cup
Breidablik are out and FH go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings2 Oct 2028
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Oct 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tobias Carlsson and FH agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Match30 Sep 2028
FH make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad2 Oct 2028
10 goals and a season average of 7.26 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
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Crisis
Match23 Sep 2028
A bad afternoon for FH against Keflavik
1‑3 to Keflavik, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
A falling-out at FH
Bjarni Guðjón Brynjólfsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Kristján Flóki Finnbogason is on it.
Squad25 Sep 2028
A FH teenager takes the young player award
Birkir Þorsteinsson is 19, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
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.
Player ratings25 Sep 2028
8 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
Looking ahead25 Sep 2028
Breidablik next, and one man in the FH dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.81 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
Marked 8.09. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at FH.
Squad18 Sep 2028
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Tempers go at FH
Dagur Traustason 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.
Match16 Sep 2028
Honours even between FH and KR
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
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 dugout18 Sep 2028
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 2‑2 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Gils Gíslason
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Sep 2028
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Player ratings11 Sep 2028
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 13 combined actions and a mark of 7.51, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Player ratings11 Sep 2028
Marked 8.00 — 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.
Match9 Sep 2028
No time for Valur to settle
The goal that put Valur ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when FH equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Match9 Sep 2028
It needed Adolf Daði Birgisson to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Valur, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
Nobody at FH 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.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Aron Fridjonsson chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Looking ahead11 Sep 2028
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against KR in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Triumph
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
A defender's goal wins it for FH — 6.24
1 for Tobias Carlsson, marked 6.24, 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.
Match2 Sep 2028
It finished 3‑1, and it was Tobias Carlsson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FH.
Squad4 Sep 2028
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout4 Sep 2028
“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.
Match2 Sep 2028
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Tobias Carlsson in the middle of it, and Fylkir unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
Squad4 Sep 2028
10 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad4 Sep 2028
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
A performance of 8.28 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad4 Sep 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Óttar Uni Steinbjörnsson and FH agree another 4 years.
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Upbeat
Match26 Aug 2028
3‑0, and Kjartan Kári Halldórsson took the headlines on an afternoon when everything FH tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.62, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market28 Aug 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad28 Aug 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Marked 8.23 — 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.
Squad28 Aug 2028
A season average of 7.21 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Ísak Óli Ólafsson's mistake
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.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑0, Aron Fridjonsson could afford to be generous.
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Upbeat
Match16 Aug 2028
Cup progress for FH
A 4‑0 win over Fjolnir, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad21 Aug 2028
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.67, and nobody on the pitch better.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FH may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Deadline passes with 2 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at FH until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market21 Aug 2028
The phone has started ringing about Kristján Oddur Haagensen again, and this time the name on the line is IA. FH are listening politely and promising nothing.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
FH asked and Crvena Zvezda said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces21 Aug 2028
FH supporters have found a favourite in Gils Gíslason
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Gils Gíslason has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2028
3‑0, and Kjartan Kári Halldórsson took the headlines on an afternoon when everything FH tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kjartan Kári Halldórsson provided it, and the 8.60 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market14 Aug 2028
“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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ísak Óli Ólafsson and FH agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Ísak Óli Ólafsson was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.09. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Aron Fridjonsson on a 3‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.93 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market7 Aug 2028
“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 FH, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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 Aug 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Adolf Daði Birgisson and FH agree another 4 years.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Match5 Aug 2028
Three points for FH, 1‑0 the final word against Stjarnan in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market7 Aug 2028
No place for Aron Jónsson in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Aron Jónsson has his answer from FH; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
The FH board find $1.5M for the manager
Money, not words, and it is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending $1.5M well is entirely his problem now.
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Upbeat
Market31 Jul 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FH can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Tempers go at FH
Dagur Traustason 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 dugout31 Jul 2028
“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.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. FH told Ögmundur Kristinsson something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Match29 Jul 2028
Point won or two lost for FH?
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.
Looking ahead31 Jul 2028
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Adolf Daði Birgisson’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and FH needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market31 Jul 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Match22 Jul 2028
4‑0, and Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason took the headlines on an afternoon when everything FH tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
Two goals and a mark of 8.54 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad24 Jul 2028
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Crvena Zvezda have kept their man, and FH go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
8.54. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
Arnór Borg Guðjohnsen was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.21. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
The dugout24 Jul 2028
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Aron Fridjonsson on a 4‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout24 Jul 2028
Dennis Olsson gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Dennis Olsson is on it.
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Steady
Match12 Jul 2028
FH through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Keflavik, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market17 Jul 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FH the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
FH asked and Dinamo Zagreb said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match15 Jul 2028
Breidablik left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
The dugout17 Jul 2028
Aron Jónsson gets it from the manager
“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.
Match17 Jul 2028
FH at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 7, 17 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
Marked 7.94 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, FH had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout17 Jul 2028
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Aron Fridjonsson after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Upbeat
Squad10 Jul 2028
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Match8 Jul 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kjartan Kári Halldórsson. 2‑0 against Keflavik, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings10 Jul 2028
A performance of 8.46 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings10 Jul 2028
Marked 8.44. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at FH.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adolf Daði Birgisson 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.
Player ratings10 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Aron Fridjonsson could afford to be generous.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Birkir Þorsteinsson is on it.
Looking ahead10 Jul 2028
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Breidablik in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Upbeat
Player ratings3 Jul 2028
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kristján Flóki Finnbogason provided it, and the 8.98 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad3 Jul 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Jul 2028
FH get the job done against KR
A 2‑1 win over KR, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Player ratings3 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
FH sign 6 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
The dugout3 Jul 2028
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Aron Fridjonsson kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout3 Jul 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sverrir Páll Hjaltested, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead3 Jul 2028
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Ísak Óli Ólafsson’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and FH needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Crisis
Market26 Jun 2028
“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.
Squad26 Jun 2028
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match24 Jun 2028
FH come up short against Valur
Valur left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Jun 2028
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Jun 2028
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Aron Fridjonsson to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout26 Jun 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ögmundur Kristinsson, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead26 Jun 2028
KR next, and one man in the FH dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout26 Jun 2028
Aron Jónsson 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.
Market26 Jun 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Birkir Valur Jónsson signs something — a contract at FH or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Market19 Jun 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FH the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
The dugout19 Jun 2028
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Aron Fridjonsson after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Looking ahead19 Jun 2028
A test against the best for FH
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Valur.
Match17 Jun 2028
Point won or two lost for FH?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Fylkir? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Looking ahead19 Jun 2028
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and FH needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout19 Jun 2028
Aron Jónsson knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FH, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market19 Jun 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kristján Flóki Finnbogason signs something — a contract at FH or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Match10 Jun 2028
Three points for FH, 2‑0 the final word against Fjolnir in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
A performance of 8.48 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad12 Jun 2028
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
A performance of 8.17 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad12 Jun 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
Market12 Jun 2028
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at FH has been clear about where Bjarni Guðjón Brynjólfsson stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Birkir Þorsteinsson is on it.
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Steady
Squad5 Jun 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Squad5 Jun 2028
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Kristján Oddur Haagensen is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Market5 Jun 2028
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Sverrir Páll Hjaltested has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at FH.
Player ratings5 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
The dugout5 Jun 2028
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
The dugout5 Jun 2028
“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.
Match3 Jun 2028
Point won or two lost for FH?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against IA? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Upbeat
Match27 May 2028
No mercy from FH
IBV will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑2, every duel lost, and a long ride home. FH were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad29 May 2028
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings29 May 2028
Kristján Oddur Haagensen, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.17
A mark of 8.17 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings29 May 2028
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.42 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match27 May 2028
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about FH and IBV in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
The terraces29 May 2028
He is 20 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.
Squad29 May 2028
50 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.
Player ratings29 May 2028
8.45. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout29 May 2028
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 5‑2, Aron Fridjonsson could afford to be generous.
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Steady
Market22 May 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FH the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings22 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad22 May 2028
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
The dugout22 May 2028
“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.
Match20 May 2028
Stjarnan take the points off FH
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad22 May 2028
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
The dugout22 May 2028
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Aron Fridjonsson to a room that had heard them before.
Squad22 May 2028
At 19 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.
Looking ahead22 May 2028
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against IBV in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Squad15 May 2028
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Match13 May 2028
FH come up short against Vikingur
Vikingur left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad15 May 2028
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobias Carlsson 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 dugout15 May 2028
“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.
The dugout15 May 2028
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad15 May 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Olafur Arnason and FH agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad15 May 2028
Birkir Þorsteinsson, 19, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where FH would like this to lead.
The dugout15 May 2028
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.
Looking ahead15 May 2028
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Adolf Daði Birgisson’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and FH needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Upbeat
Player ratings8 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad8 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 May 2028
Graduation day at FH
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 May 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dennis Olsson and FH agree another 2 years.
Squad8 May 2028
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobias Carlsson 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.
Market8 May 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Haukur Skulason has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market8 May 2028
One of our own: Andri Magnusson joins the FH first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andri Magnusson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match6 May 2028
FH get the job done against Leiknir
A 1‑0 win over Leiknir, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings8 May 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.41, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
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Boardroom
FH board go back on their word
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Boardroom
FH turn down the training-ground plan
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Upbeat
Squad1 May 2028
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 May 2028
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Looking ahead1 May 2028
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Leiknir in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market1 May 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Birkir Valur Jónsson signs something — a contract at FH or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad1 May 2028
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at FH than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Squad1 May 2028
A season on the outside for Dennis Olsson
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at FH has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Upbeat
Market24 Apr 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Squad24 Apr 2028
A falling-out at FH
Dagur Traustason and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
“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.
Market24 Apr 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Arnór Borg Guðjohnsen’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad24 Apr 2028
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and FH will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
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Upbeat
Squad17 Apr 2028
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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 dugout17 Apr 2028
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Birkir Þorsteinsson is on it.
Match17 Apr 2028
FH in the hunt for Europe
Position 5, 37 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
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.
Squad17 Apr 2028
The training reports on Jökull Andrésson are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
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Upbeat
Squad10 Apr 2028
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Market10 Apr 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kjartan Kári Halldórsson’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout10 Apr 2028
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Kristján Flóki Finnbogason’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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Upbeat
Market3 Apr 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FH can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom3 Apr 2028
Window shuts: 0 in, 1 out at FH
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad3 Apr 2028
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Apr 2028
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad3 Apr 2028
The captaincy has been taken off Kristján Flóki Finnbogason. FH will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Market3 Apr 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Birkir Valur Jónsson signs something — a contract at FH or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Market27 Mar 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FH they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Hilmar Karlsson and FH agree another 4 years.
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Upbeat
Squad20 Mar 2028
Tempers go at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Agustín Esposto and FH agree another 3 years.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at FH that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
In brief
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Match
FH have something to play for
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The dugout
The manager plants his flag on Jökull Andrésson
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Boardroom
The FH board put their names to it
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market13 Mar 2028
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Stjarnan waiting with a shirt. Nobody at FH is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad13 Mar 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets13 Mar 2028
FH asked and Bayern Munich said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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Upbeat
Market6 Mar 2028
“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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tobias Carlsson commits to FH for another 2 years.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Club Brugge have kept their man, and FH go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Words exchanged at FH
Dagur Traustason 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.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
A loan move for Jannis Bärtl is in the works
FH have made the call to Bayern Munich. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market6 Mar 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Birkir Valur Jónsson signs something — a contract at FH or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at FH that is a harder question to answer.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
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.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at FH
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Óli Ólafsson 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.
Market28 Feb 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Feb 2028
A fracture rules Tobias Carlsson out for 15 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FH will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Feb 2028
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Feb 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Birkir Þorsteinsson and FH agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
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.
Match21 Feb 2028
Continental football is in reach for FH
37 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Feb 2028
23 days out for Tobias Carlsson after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. FH will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad14 Feb 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Feb 2028
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gils Gíslason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gils Gíslason, and the manager let it.
Market14 Feb 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kjartan Kári Halldórsson’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
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.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Feb 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Feb 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FH can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
The deal with Ascoli is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A falling-out at FH
Jökull Andrésson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ísak Óli Ólafsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.