From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Oct 2029
A fracture rules Alperen Aydın out for 30 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fylkir will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market8 Oct 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Holmar Skulason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fylkir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad8 Oct 2029
160 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Oct 2029
A fracture rules Alperen Aydın out for 37 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fylkir will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad1 Oct 2029
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Fylkir will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market1 Oct 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sverrir Ingason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fylkir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad1 Oct 2029
160 appearances across 8 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Fylkir know what they have.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
Match29 Sep 2029
Three points for Fylkir, 1‑0 the final word against IBV in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings1 Oct 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings1 Oct 2029
17 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings1 Oct 2029
Defensive actions: 13, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Crisis
Squad24 Sep 2029
A fracture rules Alperen Aydın out for 46 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fylkir will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match22 Sep 2029
No end in sight to Fylkir's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fylkir has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Sep 2029
A bad afternoon for Fylkir against Stjarnan
0‑2 to Stjarnan, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad24 Sep 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.
Squad24 Sep 2029
The team sheet said everything about Elías Már Ómarsson
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Elías Már Ómarsson.
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Steady
Squad17 Sep 2029
A fracture rules Alperen Aydın out for 53 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fylkir will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad17 Sep 2029
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Fylkir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match15 Sep 2029
4 matches without a win for Fylkir
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Fylkir are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Sep 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ragnar Bragi Sveinsson 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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kristófer Dagur Arnarsson, and the manager let it.
Match15 Sep 2029
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Vikingur defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Sep 2029
Alperen Aydın breaks a bone — 61 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 61 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad10 Sep 2029
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Market10 Sep 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Holmar Skulason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fylkir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Sep 2029
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Fylkir and Leiknir in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
A performance of 8.97 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad10 Sep 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.
Match8 Sep 2029
It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Sep 2029
Alperen Aydın breaks a bone — 68 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 68 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market3 Sep 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sverrir Ingason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fylkir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad3 Sep 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marcis Rugins and Fylkir agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ragnar Bragi Sveinsson 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.
Squad3 Sep 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.
Match1 Sep 2029
It needed Guðmar Gauti Sævarsson to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against FH, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad27 Aug 2029
Alperen Aydın breaks a bone — 75 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 75 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The terraces27 Aug 2029
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 8 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad27 Aug 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fylkir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad27 Aug 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match25 Aug 2029
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad27 Aug 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad20 Aug 2029
Alperen Aydın breaks a bone — 82 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market20 Aug 2029
Fjolnir come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Fylkir did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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 ratings20 Aug 2029
Nikulás Val Gunnarsson was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.58. 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.
Match18 Aug 2029
Three points for Fylkir, 1‑0 the final word against KR in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad20 Aug 2029
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
Squad13 Aug 2029
Alperen Aydın breaks a bone — 89 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 89 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market13 Aug 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fylkir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Alexandr Prokhorov has just signed for Fylkir, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad13 Aug 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Guðmundur Tyrfingsson commits to Fylkir for another 4 years.
Squad13 Aug 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market13 Aug 2029
The phone has started ringing about Sverrir Ingason again, and this time the name on the line is Fjolnir. Fylkir are listening politely and promising nothing.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad6 Aug 2029
A fracture rules Alperen Aydın out for 97 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fylkir will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market6 Aug 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fylkir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
Match4 Aug 2029
1‑2 to Breidablik, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad6 Aug 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.
Market6 Aug 2029
Leiknir are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Fylkir will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Kári Sigfússon 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 ratings6 Aug 2029
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings6 Aug 2029
5.77. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Jul 2029
Alperen Aydın breaks a bone — 105 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 105 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market30 Jul 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 Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
Market30 Jul 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad30 Jul 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Jul 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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
João Barros 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 ratings30 Jul 2029
Marked 7.82. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match28 Jul 2029
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The terraces30 Jul 2029
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad23 Jul 2029
A fracture rules Alperen Aydın out for 113 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fylkir will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 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.
The terraces23 Jul 2029
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Market23 Jul 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ragnar Bragi Sveinsson 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.
Match21 Jul 2029
IA take the points off Fylkir
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad23 Jul 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.
Player ratings23 Jul 2029
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings23 Jul 2029
Marked 5.41, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Steady
Squad16 Jul 2029
A fracture rules Alperen Aydın out for 120 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fylkir will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match11 Jul 2029
Fylkir bow out of the cup
KR go through and Fylkir go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad16 Jul 2029
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Fylkir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
A defender's goal wins it for Fylkir — 7.10
1 for Arnar Númi Gíslason, marked 7.10, 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.
Market16 Jul 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fylkir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Jul 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Jul 2029
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nikulás Val Gunnarsson. 2‑0 against IBV, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
A performance of 8.76 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad16 Jul 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.
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Steady
Squad9 Jul 2029
A fracture rules Alperen Aydın out for 127 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fylkir will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Jul 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Elías Már Ómarsson and Fylkir agree another 2 years.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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 Jul 2029
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Barros 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.
Match7 Jul 2029
A 1‑1 draw with Stjarnan leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings9 Jul 2029
Marked 5.76, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Steady
Squad2 Jul 2029
Alperen Aydın breaks a bone — 135 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 135 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market2 Jul 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 Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Jul 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Elías Már Ómarsson commits to Fylkir for another 2 years.
Squad2 Jul 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Jul 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.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.61 on the card, and the Fylkir support went home talking about one name.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
Fylkir sign 7 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.
Match30 Jun 2029
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Vikingur will be the happier side with the point.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
Marked 5.44, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Upbeat
Squad25 Jun 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fylkir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
Squad25 Jun 2029
The manager makes an example of Danylo Udod
“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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market18 Jun 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fylkir they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match16 Jun 2029
Fylkir find a way past FH
FH made Fylkir work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings18 Jun 2029
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.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alperen Aydın 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.
Squad18 Jun 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kári Sigfússon commits to Fylkir for another 3 years.
Player ratings18 Jun 2029
18 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad18 Jun 2029
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings18 Jun 2029
12 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Steady
Match6 Jun 2029
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Haukur Ingason obliged against Leiknir. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Fylkir.
Player ratings11 Jun 2029
Haukur Ingason could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.39
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.39, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Match6 Jun 2029
Fylkir win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Leiknir will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ragnar Bragi Sveinsson 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 ratings11 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces11 Jun 2029
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 16-year-old it feels ownership of. Haukur Ingason 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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ragnar Bragi Sveinsson, and the manager let it.
Match9 Jun 2029
Keflavik left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Alperen Aydın 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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Upbeat
Squad4 Jun 2029
91 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad4 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jun 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.
Match2 Jun 2029
Three points for Fylkir, 1‑0 the final word against KR in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad4 Jun 2029
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alperen Aydın 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 ratings4 Jun 2029
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.89 on the card, and the Fylkir support went home talking about one name.
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Upbeat
Squad28 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 May 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kristófer Dagur Arnarsson, and the manager let it.
Match26 May 2029
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Benedikt Daríus Garðarsson. 1‑0 against Valur, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad28 May 2029
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alperen Aydın 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 ratings28 May 2029
A mark of 7.67, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings28 May 2029
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 May 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fylkir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 May 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Justin Janssen 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 terraces21 May 2029
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Justin Janssen 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.
Squad21 May 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.
Squad21 May 2029
Alperen Aydın 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 ratings21 May 2029
Ninety minutes of Justin Janssen at his very best
Marked 8.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Fylkir.
Squad21 May 2029
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.
Match19 May 2029
A 1‑1 draw with Breidablik leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings21 May 2029
Successful dribbles: 8. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
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Market
Owen Méndez placed on the list
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Boardroom
The Fylkir production line keeps running
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings14 May 2029
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.
Squad14 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 May 2029
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 May 2029
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alperen Aydın 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.
Squad14 May 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guðmundur Tyrfingsson, and the manager let it.
Squad14 May 2029
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The terraces14 May 2029
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Market14 May 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.
Player ratings14 May 2029
5.52. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad7 May 2029
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market7 May 2029
“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.
Squad7 May 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Orri Sveinn Segatta commits to Fylkir for another 2 years.
Squad7 May 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Justin Janssen 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.
Boardroom7 May 2029
Graduation day at Fylkir
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
Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.
Market7 May 2029
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dagur Saevarsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market7 May 2029
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kristinn Palsson 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.
Market7 May 2029
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stefan Palsson 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alperen Aydın 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.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Fylkir are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match23 Apr 2029
Fylkir are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 35 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market23 Apr 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Holmar Skulason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fylkir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Justin Janssen 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Apr 2029
Kári Sigfússon: 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.” Fylkir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alperen Aydın 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
Upbeat
Market9 Apr 2029
“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 Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad9 Apr 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Igor Malaschitskiy commits to Fylkir for another 4 years.
Squad9 Apr 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market2 Apr 2029
Fylkir say no — this time
The offer from Stjarnan for Holmar Skulason 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.
Squad2 Apr 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Igor Malaschitskiy and Fylkir agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad2 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alperen Aydın 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.
Squad2 Apr 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.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
$2.0M on the table at Fylkir
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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match26 Mar 2029
Fylkir are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 35 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad26 Mar 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.
Market26 Mar 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Holmar Skulason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fylkir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Mar 2029
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Alperen Aydın 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
Upbeat
Squad19 Mar 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.
Squad19 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alperen Aydın 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
Upbeat
Market12 Mar 2029
“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.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Justin Janssen 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 Mar 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad5 Mar 2029
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kristófer Dagur Arnarsson has just signed for Fylkir, and for once the answer mattered.
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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Mar 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vladislav Shubovich commits to Fylkir for another 4 years.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alperen Aydın 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.
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
$2.0M on the table at Fylkir
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.
Market5 Mar 2029
Everyone has stopped pretending: Stjarnan will make the call about Holmar Skulason this week. Fylkir have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match26 Feb 2029
Fylkir are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 35 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad26 Feb 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.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ragnar Bragi Sveinsson 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market19 Feb 2029
Stjarnan come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Fylkir did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Justin Janssen pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad19 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad12 Feb 2029
Elías Már Ómarsson damages knee ligaments — 15 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.
Market12 Feb 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 Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
Market12 Feb 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fylkir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. David Ozmanov 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.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Justin Janssen 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 Feb 2029
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
Upbeat
Squad5 Feb 2029
Elías Már Ómarsson damages knee ligaments — 22 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 22 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.
Market5 Feb 2029
IA come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Fylkir did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market5 Feb 2029
“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 Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Feb 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.
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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
Upbeat
Squad29 Jan 2029
Elías Már Ómarsson damages knee ligaments — 29 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 29 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.
Match29 Jan 2029
Fylkir refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 35 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.
Market29 Jan 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fylkir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Justin Janssen 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.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Squad29 Jan 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kári Sigfússon, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad22 Jan 2029
37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fylkir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad22 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
Upbeat
Squad15 Jan 2029
Elías Már Ómarsson damages knee ligaments — 45 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 45 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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Justin Janssen 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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
Upbeat
Squad8 Jan 2029
53 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fylkir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
Upbeat
Squad1 Jan 2029
Elías Már Ómarsson damages knee ligaments — 61 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 61 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.
Match1 Jan 2029
Fylkir refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 35 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.
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 Fylkir have had the benefit of it.
Market1 Jan 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 Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jan 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fylkir they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Tempers go at Fylkir
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad25 Dec 2028
Elías Már Ómarsson damages knee ligaments — 70 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 70 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.
Squad25 Dec 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Dec 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
Upbeat
Squad18 Dec 2028
78 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fylkir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
Upbeat
Squad11 Dec 2028
85 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fylkir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad11 Dec 2028
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Fylkir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad11 Dec 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad4 Dec 2028
92 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fylkir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match4 Dec 2028
Fylkir are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 35 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Fylkir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market4 Dec 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Holmar Skulason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fylkir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Elías Már Ómarsson and Fylkir agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Justin Janssen 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.
In brief
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Boardroom
Fylkir release $2.0M for the manager
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Boardroom
The Fylkir board choose calm
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad27 Nov 2028
99 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fylkir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad27 Nov 2028
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Fylkir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market27 Nov 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 Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad20 Nov 2028
Elías Már Ómarsson damages knee ligaments — 107 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 107 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.
Squad20 Nov 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fylkir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad20 Nov 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ragnar Bragi Sveinsson 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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
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Boardroom
Fylkir keep producing them
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad13 Nov 2028
Elías Már Ómarsson damages knee ligaments — 114 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 114 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.
Squad13 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
Upbeat
Squad6 Nov 2028
Elías Már Ómarsson damages knee ligaments — 121 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 121 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.
Match6 Nov 2028
Fylkir refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 35 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.
Market6 Nov 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fylkir they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad30 Oct 2028
Elías Már Ómarsson damages knee ligaments — 128 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 128 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.
Market30 Oct 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 Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad23 Oct 2028
Elías Már Ómarsson damages knee ligaments — 135 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 135 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.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Justin Janssen 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 Oct 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
Upbeat
Squad16 Oct 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fylkir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
Upbeat
Match9 Oct 2028
Fylkir refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 35 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.
Market9 Oct 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Holmar Skulason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fylkir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Oct 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Orri Sveinn Segatta commits to Fylkir for another 2 years.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Market2 Oct 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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
133 appearances across 8 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Fylkir know what they have.
Squad2 Oct 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Orri Sveinn Segatta and Fylkir agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match23 Sep 2028
No mercy from Fylkir
Stjarnan will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Fylkir were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ragnar Bragi Sveinsson 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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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 ratings25 Sep 2028
Marked 8.71 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings25 Sep 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad25 Sep 2028
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Fylkir pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Squad25 Sep 2028
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.
Player ratings25 Sep 2028
Successful dribbles: 6. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market25 Sep 2028
The shop window has Owen Méndez in it
Fylkir have let the market know Owen Méndez can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad18 Sep 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Squad18 Sep 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.
Match16 Sep 2028
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad18 Sep 2028
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Fylkir pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Player ratings18 Sep 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.
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Upbeat
Match11 Sep 2028
Fylkir refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 29 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.
Player ratings11 Sep 2028
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.41 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market11 Sep 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Holmar Skulason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fylkir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match9 Sep 2028
Fylkir 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.
Squad11 Sep 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match9 Sep 2028
It finished 3‑1, and it was Elías Már Ómarsson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Fylkir.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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 ratings11 Sep 2028
A performance of 8.69 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad11 Sep 2028
40 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Steady
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Two goals and a mark of 8.09 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad4 Sep 2028
81 appearances across 8 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Fylkir know what they have.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Justin Janssen 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 Sep 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Match2 Sep 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Justin Janssen. 2‑1 against FH, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces4 Sep 2028
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Justin Janssen 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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Orri Sveinn Segatta, and the manager let it.
Loan watch4 Sep 2028
“I watch every Fylkir game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at KR runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The terraces4 Sep 2028
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Steady
Squad28 Aug 2028
Jesse Schuurman: 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.” Fylkir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market28 Aug 2028
IA come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Fylkir did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Squad28 Aug 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.
Match26 Aug 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Benedikt Daríus Garðarsson. 1‑0 against Keflavik, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
7.85, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Fylkir had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
5.77. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
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Crisis
Match16 Aug 2028
Fylkir bow out of the cup
IBV go through and Fylkir go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The terraces21 Aug 2028
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 10 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad21 Aug 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.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market21 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.
Match19 Aug 2028
4 matches without a win for Fylkir
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Fylkir are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Justin Janssen 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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ragnar Bragi Sveinsson 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.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Arnar Freyr Ólafsson has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Fylkir have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
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Steady
Market14 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 Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Aug 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Holmar Skulason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fylkir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match12 Aug 2028
Still nobody has beaten Fylkir
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad14 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Squad14 Aug 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.
Match12 Aug 2028
It needed Benedikt Daríus Garðarsson 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.
Squad14 Aug 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.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
5.38. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
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Steady
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 Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Aug 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fylkir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Vladislav Shubovich has just signed for Fylkir, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ólafur Kristófer Helgason 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.
Match5 Aug 2028
Whatever happens, Fylkir do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Squad7 Aug 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.
Market7 Aug 2028
IA are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Fylkir will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
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Upbeat
Market31 Jul 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 Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Jul 2028
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad31 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Match29 Jul 2028
A 2‑1 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 ratings31 Jul 2028
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 Fylkir.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
Máni Austmann was on a different afternoon to everybody else
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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ondřej Mastný, and the manager let it.
Market31 Jul 2028
Fylkir have let the market know Eyþór Aron Wöhler can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Steady
Market24 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 Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Jul 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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Market24 Jul 2028
Vikingur are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Fylkir will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
7.31, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Fylkir had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad24 Jul 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Máni Austmann, and the manager let it.
Match22 Jul 2028
Fylkir and IA cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. IA came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
Marked 5.23. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Upbeat
Match12 Jul 2028
Fylkir march on in the cup
KR are out and Fylkir go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match12 Jul 2028
Fylkir win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 111th minute. KR will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Market17 Jul 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 Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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 ratings17 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces17 Jul 2028
The crowd has taken to Owen Méndez
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.
Squad17 Jul 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.
Match15 Jul 2028
It needed Guðmundur Tyrfingsson to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against IBV, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Steady
Market10 Jul 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.
Market10 Jul 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fylkir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings10 Jul 2028
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Arnór Breki Ásþórsson scored, was marked 7.85, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Boardroom10 Jul 2028
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Birkir Eyþórsson has agreed terms with FH for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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 Jul 2028
Stjarnan made Fylkir work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad10 Jul 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.
Squad10 Jul 2028
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Fylkir know it.
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Crisis
Market3 Jul 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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market3 Jul 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fylkir they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Match1 Jul 2028
Vikingur left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 Jul 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.
Player ratings3 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings3 Jul 2028
Marked 8.02 — 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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Steady
Squad26 Jun 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ólafur Kristófer Helgason 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.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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 ratings26 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Jun 2028
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.
Squad26 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.
Match24 Jun 2028
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Leiknir defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Steady
Match17 Jun 2028
4‑1, and Eyþór Aron Wöhler took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Fylkir tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.12 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad19 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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 ratings19 Jun 2028
Nikulás Val Gunnarsson was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.59. 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 ratings19 Jun 2028
Ninety minutes of Eyþór Aron Wöhler at his very best
Marked 8.26. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Fylkir.
Squad19 Jun 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hlynur Sævar Jónsson, and the manager let it.
Squad19 Jun 2028
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 10. 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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Crisis
Market12 Jun 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fylkir they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market12 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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ólafur Kristófer Helgason 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 Jun 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Match10 Jun 2028
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad12 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.
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Jun 2028
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.
Market12 Jun 2028
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Nahuel Gambino has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Fylkir.
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Steady
Match31 May 2028
Cup progress for Fylkir
A 1‑0 win over Leiknir, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market5 Jun 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 Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces5 Jun 2028
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 11 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Jun 2028
KR take the points off Fylkir
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
“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.
Player ratings5 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Jun 2028
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Eyþór Aron Wöhler is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Steady
Market29 May 2028
Ondřej Mastný hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
Squad29 May 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fylkir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match27 May 2028
Still nobody has beaten Fylkir
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad29 May 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
Squad29 May 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Squad29 May 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Orri Sveinn Segatta, and the manager let it.
Match27 May 2028
Fylkir share the spoils with Valur
A 1‑1 draw with Valur leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings29 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market29 May 2028
Fylkir have made Rouben Nguyen available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
Match20 May 2028
7 unbeaten for Fylkir
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Fylkir did not have in the autumn.
Squad22 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 May 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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 ratings22 May 2028
Nikulás Val Gunnarsson was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.04. 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.
Squad22 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.
Squad22 May 2028
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Upbeat
Market15 May 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ólafur Kristófer Helgason will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fylkir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad15 May 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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
6 unbeaten for Fylkir
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Fylkir did not have in the autumn.
Squad15 May 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Squad15 May 2028
Danylo Udod 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.
Squad15 May 2028
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Fylkir know it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings8 May 2028
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Benedikt Daríus Garðarsson provided it, and the 8.83 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match6 May 2028
Nobody wants to play Fylkir 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.
Squad8 May 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Elías Már Ómarsson commits to Fylkir for another 2 years.
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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 May 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Fylkir
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad8 May 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Squad8 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.
Market8 May 2028
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sverrir Ingason is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 May 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 Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 May 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ólafur Kristófer Helgason 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 May 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
Squad24 Apr 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Fylkir know it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Apr 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fylkir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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 Apr 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
Squad10 Apr 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fylkir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad10 Apr 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
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 Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
Market3 Apr 2028
So close: Ondřej Mastný’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Vikingur moved on, Ondřej Mastný reports back to Fylkir, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market27 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.
Squad27 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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
Market20 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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Ólafur Kristófer Helgason 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.
Market20 Mar 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Fylkir will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Steady
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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
Squad13 Mar 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market6 Mar 2028
Fylkir say no — this time
The offer from IBV for Ólafur Kristófer Helgason 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.
Market6 Mar 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 Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Orri Sveinn Segatta commits to Fylkir for another 2 years.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market28 Feb 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.
Market28 Feb 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Fylkir have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market28 Feb 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fylkir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Bartu Göçmen 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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Arnór Valur Ágústsson and Fylkir agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 Feb 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fylkir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market21 Feb 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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Alperen Aydın 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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alperen Aydın, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Feb 2028
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Fylkir know it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Feb 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 20 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.
Market14 Feb 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 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Feb 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.
Market7 Feb 2028
Máni Austmann hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
Market7 Feb 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Fylkir will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bartu Göçmen 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.
Squad7 Feb 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Jan 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 34 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.
Squad31 Jan 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alperen Aydın 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
Squad24 Jan 2028
42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fylkir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Tempers go at Fylkir
Orri Sveinn Segatta was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bartu Göçmen 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
Squad17 Jan 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 50 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.
Squad17 Jan 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 Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Bartu Göçmen 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
Squad10 Jan 2028
58 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fylkir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad10 Jan 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.
Market10 Jan 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 Fylkir, and it is not being withdrawn.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Jan 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 65 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.
Market3 Jan 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 Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Jan 2028
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 Fylkir have had the benefit of it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad27 Dec 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 72 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.
Squad27 Dec 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fylkir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad27 Dec 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
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Squad
Bartu Göçmen falls out with a teammate over standards
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Boardroom
Fylkir board back the manager
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad20 Dec 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 79 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad13 Dec 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 86 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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fylkir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad13 Dec 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad6 Dec 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 93 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.
Squad6 Dec 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Tempers go at Fylkir
Orri Sveinn Segatta 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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Fylkir training over how hard people work
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad29 Nov 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 100 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.
Squad29 Nov 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad29 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad22 Nov 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 107 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.
Market22 Nov 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fylkir can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Fylkir
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad15 Nov 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 114 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fylkir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad15 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fylkir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.