From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match2 Nov 2026
Hødd are in real trouble now
Position 14, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market2 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sebastian Haugland will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hødd the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match31 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Hødd
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Thomas Kinn and Hødd agree another 4 years.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Halvard Urnes 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 ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match31 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Hødd against Lillestrom
0‑1 to Lillestrom, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eirik Blikstad, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Market26 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Hødd, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market26 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Halvard Urnes
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Halvard Urnes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hødd the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Hødd
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Sean Nilsen-Modebe, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.60
A mark of 7.60 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match24 Oct 2026
Mjondalen left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match24 Oct 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Hødd and Mjondalen, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Torbjørn Kallevåg 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Hødd
Mathias Blårud and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Uneasy
Market19 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Thomas Kinn
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Thomas Kinn will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hødd the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sean Nilsen-Modebe did not need any: 8.09, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Hødd's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hødd has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jesper Robertsen is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Torbjørn Kallevåg falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Hødd
Mathias Blårud 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 terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Sean Nilsen-Modebe 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Hødd rescue it on 86 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 86. Odd had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hødd they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Thomas Kinn in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hødd this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Everybody at Hødd saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 33 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mirza Mulac commits to Hødd for another 4 years.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tage Johansen, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Hødd, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Manaf Rawufu has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Hødd will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Uneasy
Market5 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hødd they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Hødd
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Villum Dalsgaard is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Hødd
Sondre Fosnæss Hanssen 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Hødd
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Torbjørn Kallevåg was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eirik Blikstad, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 7.58. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Hødd
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
15 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market28 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Halvard Urnes
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Halvard Urnes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hødd the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mirza Mulac is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hødd this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“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; Hødd are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Uneasy
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hødd is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Hødd
Sebastian Haugland and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Hødd training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Halvard Urnes 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
10 combined actions and 6.65. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Torbjørn Kallevåg's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
7.15, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Hødd had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Thomas Kinn
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Thomas Kinn will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hødd the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market14 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Hødd, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Sep 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Hødd training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Torbjørn Kallevåg 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Sondre Beite beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match12 Sep 2026
Hødd caught on 91 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Egersund scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Market14 Sep 2026
“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 Sep 2026
Marked 7.51. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match12 Sep 2026
Hødd and Egersund take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sebastian Haugland will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hødd the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Thomas Kinn 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Hødd
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Torbjørn Kallevåg was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Hødd
Mathias Blårud and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Hødd, another week without a signature from Halvard Urnes.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Villum Dalsgaard is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Hødd, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
Halvard Urnes has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hødd they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$25.0K was the most the club would pay and Egersund were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Hødd training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Halvard Urnes 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for Hødd, 1‑0 the final word against Kongsvinger in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Hødd
Jesper Robertsen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Eirik Blikstad
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Squad
5 new faces, and Hødd are still learning each other
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The dugout
Thomas Bohinen: “That is the standard”
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Crisis
Market24 Aug 2026
Marcus Mikhail has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hødd they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$1.1M was the most the club would pay and Kristiansund were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Manaf Rawufu has agreed to leave Hødd for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Hødd
Thomas Kinn was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Torbjørn Kallevåg falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match22 Aug 2026
Hødd come up short against Lyn
Lyn left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
3 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Match12 Aug 2026
Hødd out of the cup
Viking ended it 2‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market17 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hødd is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$1.8M on the table at Viking. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 16 signed and 16 gone
That is the business done at Hødd until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$1.1M was the most the club would pay and Fredrikstad were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Hødd go back to the board over Joe Bell
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.0M — a club that wants Joe Bell enough to be asked twice.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Daniel Brandal 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Hødd
Sebastian Haugland and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Upbeat
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.66, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sebastian Haugland will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hødd the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Marcus Mikhail 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Torbjørn Kallevåg and Hødd agree another 3 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Hødd offered $480.0K; Molde said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hødd this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$22.0K on the table at Egersund. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Torbjørn Kallevåg 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Three points for Hødd, 2‑1 the final word against Raufoss in a contest settled by the finer margins.
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Crisis
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Hødd have gone to Molde with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Hødd
Sebastian Haugland 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 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Hødd
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Torbjørn Kallevåg was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match1 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Hødd against Sogndal
0‑1 to Sogndal, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Hødd can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Noah Sahsah is in the works
Hødd have made the call to Rosenborg. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.