From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market9 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at IK Brage is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match7 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for IK Brage
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around IK Brage are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at IK Brage
Alexander Zetterström and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Viktor Frodig, and the manager let it.
Match7 Nov 2026
0‑1 to Utsikten, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Gustav Nordh knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at IK Brage, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market9 Nov 2026
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs IK Brage money.
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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
IK Brage are in real trouble now
Position 15, 9 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
8 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at IK Brage is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to IK Brage's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at IK Brage has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IK Brage this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at IK Brage
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lukas Björklund was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match31 Oct 2026
GIF Sundsvall left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Uneasy
Market26 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Haris Brkić
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Haris Brkić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around IK Brage the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for IK Brage
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Alexander Zetterström 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 Oct 2026
Lukas Björklund 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
A point taken on 95 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A mark of 7.62, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match24 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Jakob Augustinsson chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
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Uneasy
Market19 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Gustav Nordh
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gustav Nordh will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around IK Brage the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at IK Brage
Alexander Zetterström and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match17 Oct 2026
IK Brage rescue it on 87 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 87. Kalmar FF had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Squad19 Oct 2026
IK Brage are still strangers to each other
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Alexander Zetterström'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.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Kalmar FF leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Jakob Augustinsson after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Market19 Oct 2026
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what IK Brage could get for him.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at IK Brage is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” IK Brage may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at IK Brage
Alexander Zetterström and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Lukas Björklund 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. IK Brage told Måns Isaksson something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Lorik Konjuhi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Viktor Frodig asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Malte Persson’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and IK Brage needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market12 Oct 2026
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs IK Brage money.
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Crisis
Market5 Oct 2026
Haris Brkić 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 IK Brage can pretend not to have heard.
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at IK Brage is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match5 Oct 2026
IK Brage are in real trouble now
Position 14, 7 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.
Squad5 Oct 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 IK Brage this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Lukas Björklund 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Sandviken left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ola Visted named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Ola Visted 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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Uneasy
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at IK Brage is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Ola Visted at 21 — 7.60
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ola Visted did not need any: 7.60, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Alexander Zetterström 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The step up is real for Amin Cosic
At 20 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Jakob Augustinsson was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the IK Brage dressing room was either.
The dugout28 Sep 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 IK Brage, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A brace, and Jakob Rømo Skille takes the afternoon — 8.50
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jakob Rømo Skille provided it, and the 8.50 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Gustav Nordh
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gustav Nordh will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around IK Brage the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for IK Brage — 7.85
1 for Haris Brkić, marked 7.85, 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at IK Brage
Alexander Zetterström 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Orebro made IK Brage work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at IK Brage training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lukas Björklund is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Gideon Granström 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
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Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexander Zetterström will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around IK Brage the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to IK Brage's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at IK Brage has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at IK Brage
Alexander Zetterström and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at IK Brage
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lukas Björklund was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at IK Brage, another week without a signature from Alexander Zetterström.
Market14 Sep 2026
He is 20, and nobody at IK Brage signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Jakob Augustinsson after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad14 Sep 2026
No place for Amin Cosic in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation IK Brage are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
Viktor Frodig has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around IK Brage they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad7 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 IK Brage this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ola Visted moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at IK Brage than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Varbergs BoIS next, and one man in the IK Brage dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market7 Sep 2026
4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what IK Brage could get for him.
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A season on the outside for Lasse Madsen
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at IK Brage has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gustav Berggren will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around IK Brage the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for IK Brage
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around IK Brage are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Teodor Wålemark has agreed terms with Orebro for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alexander Zetterström 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at IK Brage
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lukas Björklund was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Malmo FF have kept their man, and IK Brage go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Jakob Augustinsson to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. IK Brage deserved better, and so did he.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put IK Brage out
Out, 2‑3 to Hammarby, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
8 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at IK Brage is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market24 Aug 2026
The deal that would have taken Viktor Frodig to AIK has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to IK Brage with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Market24 Aug 2026
Oliwer Stark 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 IK Brage can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Viktor Frodig 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at IK Brage
Alexander Zetterström 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Lukas Björklund falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer 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.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around IK Brage people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match12 Aug 2026
IK Brage march on in the cup
Halmstad are out and IK Brage go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑3 to Oddevold, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match12 Aug 2026
Úlfur Ágúst Björnsson wins it after the whistle should have gone
105 minutes played. Úlfur Ágúst Björnsson found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Halmstad went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.71 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market17 Aug 2026
Gustav Nordh has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around IK Brage they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Gideon Granström at 21 — 7.90
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Gideon Granström did not need any: 7.90, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Fee done, terms next for Nikola Vasić
IK Brage and Hammarby have settled on $300.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
IK Brage close the window on a squad of their own making
18 in and 15 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexander Zetterström will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around IK Brage the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. IK Brage have done the hard part with Mjällby, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Boardroom10 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Hammarby this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alexander Zetterström 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 Aug 2026
A row about effort at IK Brage
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lukas Björklund was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mjällby have kept their man, and IK Brage go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Karl Olsson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
268 appearances across 15 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and IK Brage know what they have.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A move Lukas Björklund would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Lukas Björklund is living that version at IK Brage, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad3 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 IK Brage this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at IK Brage training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lukas Björklund is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. HamKam have kept their man, and IK Brage go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Viktor Frodig
“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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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 view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Jakob Augustinsson to a room that had heard them before.