From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market1 Mar 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Luke Rae wants to go home
“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 KR know it.
Squad1 Mar 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 KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets1 Mar 2027
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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aron Þórður Albertsson 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 targets1 Mar 2027
Plymouth Argyle have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Guðmundur Tyrfingsson is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
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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Squad22 Feb 2027
Michael Akoto damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 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 Feb 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 KR can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at KR
Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabríel Hrannar Eyjólfsson 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 targets22 Feb 2027
A loan enquiry to Quevilly-Rouen: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
Michael Akoto damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market15 Feb 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. KR have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market15 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A falling-out at KR
Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
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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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
Michael Akoto damages knee ligaments — 30 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 30 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
“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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. KR have done the hard part with Fylkir, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market8 Feb 2027
The name of Gyrðir Hrafn Guðbrandsson has come up in conversations KR were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabríel Hrannar Eyjólfsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Halldór Snær Georgsson is on it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Luke Rae still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at KR would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Market8 Feb 2027
The name of Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KR say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
Michael Akoto damages knee ligaments — 37 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 37 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Aron Saevarsson out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KR will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market1 Feb 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 KR can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Feb 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ástbjörn Þórðarson has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at KR.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabríel Hrannar Eyjólfsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabríel Hrannar Eyjólfsson, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Michael Akoto
44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. KR lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad25 Jan 2027
26 days out for Aron Saevarsson after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. KR will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Nobody at KR will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“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 dugout25 Jan 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market25 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Stefán Árni Geirsson’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Michael Akoto damages knee ligaments — 51 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 51 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at KR
Arnór Ingvi Traustason and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabríel Hrannar Eyjólfsson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Aron Sigurðarson is on it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. KR know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Halldór Snær Georgsson commits to KR for another 4 years.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at KR
Hjalti Sigurðsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabríel Hrannar Eyjólfsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Nobody at KR will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“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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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at KR
Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Nobody at KR 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. KR know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at KR
Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad28 Dec 2026
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 dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hrafn Tómasson, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabríel Hrannar Eyjólfsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
There were 11 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
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.
Match8 Dec 2026
A European lesson for KR
0‑2 against Dinamo Zagreb. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Match8 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for KR
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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match8 Dec 2026
KR are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ástbjörn Þórðarson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Rurik Ingason left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Nobody at KR 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
Squad7 Dec 2026
29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. KR lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ástbjörn Þórðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Crisis
Squad30 Nov 2026
38 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. KR lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match24 Nov 2026
A European night to forget for KR
1‑5. CSKA Moscow play this football every year and it showed in every part of the pitch. The lesson is expensive and, for a club at this stage, probably necessary.
Match24 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for KR
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” KR may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at KR
Arnór Ingvi Traustason and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match24 Nov 2026
KR leaking at the back
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match24 Nov 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about KR and CSKA Moscow in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Doors closed at KR
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson and KR agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad23 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 KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Aron Sigurðarson is on it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market23 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at KR, another week without a signature from Gabríel Hrannar Eyjólfsson.
Market23 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. KR know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Michael Akoto commits to KR for another 4 years.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at KR
Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabríel Hrannar Eyjólfsson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Arnar Freyr Ólafsson, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market16 Nov 2026
The name of Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KR say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 15 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match3 Nov 2026
A European lesson for KR
0‑2 against Ajax. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Match3 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for KR
5 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at KR
Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson 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.
Match3 Nov 2026
No clean sheets in sight for KR
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Auðunn Gunnarsson and KR agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabríel Hrannar Eyjólfsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Auðunn Gunnarsson and KR agree another 4 years.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Nobody at KR 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Halldór Snær Georgsson. KR will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
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Crisis
Match20 Oct 2026
Ajax take KR apart in Europe
0‑3. There is a level at which football is played every single week by clubs that have been doing it for fifty years, and an evening like this is what it feels like to arrive there without having done it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
10 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.
Match20 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for KR
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around KR are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
Doors closed at KR
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabríel Hrannar Eyjólfsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Oct 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 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Rurik Ingason to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Aron Sigurðarson has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at KR will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at KR
Something was said to Hrafn Tómasson and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at KR
Hjalti Sigurðsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Nobody at KR will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at KR. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market19 Oct 2026
The name of Stefán Árni Geirsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KR say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sharpest man there all week, by every account. It is the quietest line on this page and it usually runs the week before somebody’s run in the side begins.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hjalti Sigurðsson 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexander Helgi Sigurðarson, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Aron Þórður Albertsson is on it.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match29 Sep 2026
KR come up short in Europe
1‑2 away to the standard of Dinamo Zagreb. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ástbjörn Þórðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Arnór Ingvi Traustason has come out of that comparison in the side, and KR have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Nobody at KR will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. KR lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and KR had a different afternoon.
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Crisis
Match23 Sep 2026
The small margins put KR out
Out, 0‑1 to Valur, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match26 Sep 2026
A hiding for KR
Beaten 0‑3 by Vikingur, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at KR
Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Finnur Tómas Pálmason, and the manager let it.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
Inquest at KR
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Rurik Ingason after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Aron Sigurðarson has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at KR will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 14 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match15 Sep 2026
1‑5. There is a level at which football is played every single week by clubs that have been doing it for fifty years, and an evening like this is what it feels like to arrive there without having done it.
Match19 Sep 2026
3‑0, and Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson took the headlines on an afternoon when everything KR tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.26, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.24, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad21 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.
Squad21 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 KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 Sep 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between KR and CSKA Moscow, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 19 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.
In brief
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The dugout
Aron Sigurðarson gets it from the manager
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Match
Leiknir blown away early
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Boardroom
Nobody left the KR dressing room in a hurry
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Orri Hrafn Kjartansson, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabríel Hrannar Eyjólfsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Rurik Ingason left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Michael Akoto is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Aron Þórður Albertsson is on it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
4.86. 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.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Leiknir next, and one man in the KR dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Orri Hrafn Kjartansson is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Halldór Snær Georgsson is on it.
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.
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.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
KR take on the side everybody is chasing
FH arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Ástbjörn Þórðarson’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and KR needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Upbeat
Match26 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Aron Þórður Albertsson obliged against FH. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is KR.
Match26 Aug 2026
Cruel end for FH as KR pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. KR scored in the 110th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There were 8 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KR can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
KR asked and Fylkir said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match29 Aug 2026
KR come up short against Keflavik
Keflavik left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.18, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for KR
A 1‑0 win over IA, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for KR — 7.94
1 for Alexander Helgi Sigurðarson, marked 7.94, 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Orri Hrafn Kjartansson scored, was marked 7.75, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Brondby is saying, and nobody at KR is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
KR asked and IBV said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match22 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
KR supporters have found a favourite in Dagur Sigurdsson
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 16-year-old it feels ownership of. Dagur Sigurdsson 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Halldór Snær Georgsson, and the manager let it.
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Triumph
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.78 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for KR — 7.46
1 for Orri Hrafn Kjartansson, marked 7.46, 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Window shuts: 12 in, 0 out at KR
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 12 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market17 Aug 2026
Valur come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and KR did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match15 Aug 2026
KR 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson. 3‑2 against Valur, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Transfer targets17 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Luke Rae
Marked 8.60 — 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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Triumph
Squad10 Aug 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 ratings10 Aug 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.81, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Orri Hrafn Kjartansson scored, was marked 7.59, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Halldór Snær Georgsson commits to KR for another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at KR
Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson 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 terraces10 Aug 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match8 Aug 2026
Three points for KR, 2‑0 the final word against Fylkir in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dagur Sigurdsson 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.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Fjolnir, and it could have been more.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Stefán Árni Geirsson provided it, and the 8.46 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Arnór Ingvi Traustason and KR agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 6.54 beside his name.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at KR
Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Padova have kept their man, and KR go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ástbjörn Þórðarson falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.10 — 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.