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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Hilmar Karlsson is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Dec 2026
19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Baldur Kári Helgason 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Grétar Snær Gunnarsson'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 dugout21 Dec 2026
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.
Market21 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ísak Óli Ólafsson signs something — a contract at FH or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
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 dugout14 Dec 2026
“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 dugout14 Dec 2026
Kári Kristjánsson 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
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 dugout14 Dec 2026
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 dugout14 Dec 2026
“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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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tobias Carlsson 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 Dec 2026
A falling-out at FH
Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
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 Sverrir Páll Hjaltested is on it.
Market7 Dec 2026
The name of Birkir Valur Jónsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. FH say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market30 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tobias Carlsson signs something — a contract at FH or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at FH
Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
49 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sverrir Páll Hjaltested and FH agree another 4 years.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Grétar Snær Gunnarsson'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 dugout23 Nov 2026
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 dugout23 Nov 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson has written the date down.
Market23 Nov 2026
The name of Úlfur Ágúst Björnsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. FH say nothing, which says plenty.
Market23 Nov 2026
FH shop where it costs nothing
Sigurður Arnar Magnússon signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at FH
Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adolf Daði Birgisson, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Kári Kristjánsson 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Arnór Borg Guðjohnsen keeps the shirt for now, at FH's convenience rather than his own.
Market16 Nov 2026
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
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FH may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
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 Sverrir Páll Hjaltested is on it.
Market9 Nov 2026
The name of Arnór Borg Guðjohnsen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. FH say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson has written the date down.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jökull Andrésson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Nov 2026
22 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
$2.5M on the table at FH
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daði Freyr Arnarsson, and the manager let it.
Market2 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tobias Carlsson signs something — a contract at FH or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and FH will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at FH, another week without a signature from Daði Freyr Arnarsson.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kári Kristjánsson and FH agree another 5 years.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad26 Oct 2026
FH are still strangers to each other
11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Grétar Snær Gunnarsson'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 dugout26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at FH
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jökull Andrésson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at FH
Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hilmar Karlsson commits to FH for another 4 years.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Kári Kristjánsson 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson has written the date down.
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Steady
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kári Kristjánsson is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at FH
Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market12 Oct 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Daði Freyr Arnarsson has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at FH.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
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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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at FH
Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 52 days on the sidelines for Óttar Uni Steinbjörnsson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at FH training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Baldur Kári Helgason 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and FH will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tómas Orri Róbertsson, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at FH
Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at FH has been clear about where Grétar Snær Gunnarsson stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at FH
10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at FH needed to.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Breidablik leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Match21 Sep 2026
FH are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 16 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match19 Sep 2026
Keflavik take the points off FH
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at FH
Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
He came on with the match going nowhere and left it settled. FH had the right man on the bench, and for once the timing was right too.
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Upbeat
Market14 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FH, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.19 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match12 Sep 2026
FH find a way past KR
KR made FH work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at FH, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Baldur Kári Helgason 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Rurik Saevarsson on a 3‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oliver Stanišić, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Baldur Kári Helgason 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 Sep 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at FH has been clear about where Arngrímur Bjartur Guðmundsson stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Jóhannes Kristinn Bjarnason 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Tobias Carlsson. FH will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
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Upbeat
Match26 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for FH
1‑2 against KR, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at FH
Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson 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 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad31 Aug 2026
FH are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
110 minutes played. Sverrir Páll Hjaltested found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Keflavik went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kristján Flóki Finnbogason provided it, and the 8.91 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FH, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match22 Aug 2026
FH cannot stop winning
5 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Brondby is saying, and nobody at FH is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
FH asked and Cracovia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at FH
Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson 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 terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Kári Kristjánsson 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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Triumph
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
FH close the window on a squad of their own making
14 in and 1 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match15 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
FH asked and Dynamo Kyiv said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
At 22 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Fjolnir made FH work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
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Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 7.87 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
7.97, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Allan Purisevic has agreed terms with Keflavik for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Match8 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about FH and IA in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match8 Aug 2026
FH get the job done against IA
A 4‑2 win over IA, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aron Jónsson and FH agree another 3 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at FH
Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason 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 terraces10 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Kjartan Kári Halldórsson 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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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
FH strike at the death to beat IBV
There were 86 minutes on the clock and IBV had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and FH did not stop to explain themselves.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jökull Andrésson and FH agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
FH asked and Brann said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at FH
Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match1 Aug 2026
Three points for FH, 2‑1 the final word against IBV in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Hilmar Karlsson again, and this time the name on the line is Breidablik. FH are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
8.27. 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.