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Crisis
Match1 Oct 2029
The season ends: position 5 for KR
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 34 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Squad1 Oct 2029
11 seasons and 215 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Squad1 Oct 2029
A falling-out at KR
Aron Sigurðarson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luke Rae 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 dugout1 Oct 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Stefán Þór S. Ágústsson, and the manager let it.
Match29 Sep 2029
KR come up short against Vikingur
Vikingur left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings1 Oct 2029
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
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 Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.
Squad1 Oct 2029
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.
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Uneasy
Market24 Sep 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Sep 2029
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.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Match22 Sep 2029
KR end the wait against Leiknir
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.
Match22 Sep 2029
KR get the job done against Leiknir
A 1‑0 win over Leiknir, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Interim Coach could afford to be generous.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Uneasy
Match15 Sep 2029
5 matches without a win for KR
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around KR are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Sep 2029
Tempers go at KR
Michael Akoto was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Sep 2029
Aron Sigurðarson 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 dugout17 Sep 2029
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Interim Coach after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Player ratings17 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Sep 2029
KR and FH cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. FH came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
The dugout17 Sep 2029
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.
Looking ahead17 Sep 2029
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Stefán Árni Geirsson’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.
Market17 Sep 2029
The name of Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KR say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad10 Sep 2029
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match8 Sep 2029
No end in sight to KR's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at KR has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad10 Sep 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Manuele Margiotta has just signed for KR, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Sep 2029
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luke Rae was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom10 Sep 2029
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
“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.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
Nobody could get near Luke Rae
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Squad3 Sep 2029
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Michael Akoto, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad3 Sep 2029
A falling-out at KR
Michael Akoto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Aron Sigurðarson 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 dugout3 Sep 2029
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings3 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match1 Sep 2029
Level with 95 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon KR had all but put away. Breidablik will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Market3 Sep 2029
“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 Davíð Ingvarsson.
Player ratings3 Sep 2029
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.71 on the card, and the KR support went home talking about one name.
The dugout3 Sep 2029
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Upbeat
Squad27 Aug 2029
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.
Squad27 Aug 2029
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.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Match25 Aug 2029
Valur take the points off KR
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout27 Aug 2029
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at KR pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout27 Aug 2029
“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.
The dugout27 Aug 2029
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.
Squad27 Aug 2029
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. KR know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Upbeat
Squad20 Aug 2029
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.
Match18 Aug 2029
KR throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Fylkir the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that KR will enjoy reviewing.
Boardroom20 Aug 2029
Window shuts: 10 in, 8 out at KR
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 10 arrived, 8 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Tempers go at KR
Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Match18 Aug 2029
6 unbeaten for KR
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation KR did not have in the autumn.
Squad20 Aug 2029
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michael Akoto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout20 Aug 2029
“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.
Player ratings20 Aug 2029
Marked 8.29. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at KR.
Match18 Aug 2029
The run is over for KR
4 matches without defeat, and then Fylkir. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
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Upbeat
Squad13 Aug 2029
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.
Market13 Aug 2029
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around KR people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match11 Aug 2029
No mercy from KR
Fjolnir will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. KR were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Both of them Luke Rae's — 9.59
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.59, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match11 Aug 2029
KR make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now KR have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad13 Aug 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Aug 2029
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match11 Aug 2029
KR keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Marked 8.27 — 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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Upbeat
Squad6 Aug 2029
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.
Match4 Aug 2029
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.
Squad6 Aug 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aron Sigurðarson 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 targets6 Aug 2029
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ferencvaros have kept their man, and KR go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces6 Aug 2029
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson 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.
Match4 Aug 2029
It finished 2‑0, and it was Stefán Árni Geirsson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to KR.
The dugout6 Aug 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Úlfur Ágúst Björnsson, and the manager let it.
Player ratings6 Aug 2029
Stefán Árni Geirsson was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.42. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Steady
Squad30 Jul 2029
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.
Market30 Jul 2029
KR say no — this time
The offer from Breidablik for Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings30 Jul 2029
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.65 for the rest of it.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Words exchanged at KR
Aron Sigurðarson 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 targets30 Jul 2029
IA wanted more than $290.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad30 Jul 2029
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2029
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.
Match28 Jul 2029
KR get the job done against IBV
A 2‑0 win over IBV, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings30 Jul 2029
One of those days for Luke Rae
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.65, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Jul 2029
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.
Market23 Jul 2029
KR say no — this time
The offer from FH for Davíð Ingvarsson was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Match21 Jul 2029
The drought breaks for KR
8 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Stjarnan were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2029
$290.0K on the table at IA. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad23 Jul 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2029
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.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad23 Jul 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson and KR agree another 4 years.
Match21 Jul 2029
KR get the job done against Stjarnan
A 1‑0 win over Stjarnan, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Jul 2029
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.
Match14 Jul 2029
The small margins put KR out
Out, 0‑0 to Vikingur, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match14 Jul 2029
No end in sight to KR's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at KR has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad16 Jul 2029
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.
Squad16 Jul 2029
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout16 Jul 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad16 Jul 2029
36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout16 Jul 2029
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Interim Coach was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the KR dressing room was either.
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Crisis
Squad9 Jul 2029
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.
Match7 Jul 2029
6 matches without a win for KR
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around KR are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Jul 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Arnór Ingvi Traustason and KR agree another 2 years.
Squad9 Jul 2029
A falling-out at KR
Aron Sigurðarson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Jul 2029
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arnór Ingvi Traustason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match7 Jul 2029
Luke Rae’s goal not enough for KR
Luke Rae scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Leiknir, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings9 Jul 2029
Successful dribbles: 18. 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.
Player ratings9 Jul 2029
Luke Rae was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.02. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout9 Jul 2029
“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.
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Crisis
Squad2 Jul 2029
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.
Match30 Jun 2029
5 matches without a win for KR
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around KR are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Jul 2029
“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.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Words exchanged at KR
Michael Akoto 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.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.
Match30 Jun 2029
A bad afternoon for KR against FH
0‑1 to FH, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout2 Jul 2029
“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.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
Intake day at the KR academy
7 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
The dugout2 Jul 2029
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
Squad25 Jun 2029
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.
Market25 Jun 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around KR the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match23 Jun 2029
The wait goes on for KR
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.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Words exchanged at KR
Davíð Ingvarsson 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.
Squad25 Jun 2029
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings25 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match23 Jun 2029
A point taken on 93 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.
Match23 Jun 2029
It needed Stefán Árni Geirsson to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Keflavik, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout25 Jun 2029
Half-satisfied: Interim Coach on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Steady
Squad18 Jun 2029
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.
Squad18 Jun 2029
A falling-out at KR
Davíð Ingvarsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Jun 2029
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arnór Ingvi Traustason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match16 Jun 2029
KR cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Match16 Jun 2029
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings18 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
The dugout18 Jun 2029
“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.
The dugout18 Jun 2029
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout18 Jun 2029
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 Gyrðir Hrafn Guðbrandsson is on it.
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Steady
Squad11 Jun 2029
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.
Player ratings11 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad11 Jun 2029
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.
Match6 Jun 2029
KR through in the cup
A 0‑0 win over Leiknir, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad11 Jun 2029
A falling-out at KR
Michael Akoto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.
Match9 Jun 2029
A bad afternoon for KR against Valur
0‑1 to Valur, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings11 Jun 2029
Twelve yards and the whole ground holding its breath, and it did not go in. He will put his name down for the next one, which is the only thing to do.
The dugout11 Jun 2029
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Interim Coach after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Upbeat
Squad4 Jun 2029
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.
Boardroom4 Jun 2029
KR interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Interim Coach keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.
Squad4 Jun 2029
The match ball belongs to Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match2 Jun 2029
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.
Squad4 Jun 2029
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.
Squad4 Jun 2029
100 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.
Match2 Jun 2029
KR get the job done against Fylkir
A 3‑1 win over Fylkir, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings4 Jun 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.44, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout4 Jun 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Upbeat
Squad28 May 2029
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.
Market28 May 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around KR the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 May 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 May 2029
KR make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad28 May 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Akoto 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.
Match26 May 2029
Three points for KR, 1‑0 the final word against Fjolnir in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings28 May 2029
Marked 8.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at KR.
The dugout28 May 2029
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Interim Coach could afford to be generous.
The dugout28 May 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eiður Orri Ragnarsson, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad21 May 2029
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.
Squad21 May 2029
Tempers go at KR
Michael Akoto was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 May 2029
Aron Sigurðarson 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 terraces21 May 2029
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Róbert Elís Hlynsson 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.
Player ratings21 May 2029
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match19 May 2029
KR find a way past IA
IA made KR work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings21 May 2029
Stefán Árni Geirsson was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.02. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout21 May 2029
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
Player ratings21 May 2029
Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Uneasy
Squad14 May 2029
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.
Player ratings14 May 2029
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.91 for the rest of it.
Squad14 May 2029
Tempers go at KR
Davíð Ingvarsson 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.
Squad14 May 2029
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom14 May 2029
Still no name above the door at KR
Day 13 of the vacancy. Candidates have been priced, sounded out and quietly ruled out — and the caretaker’s win ratio is becoming an argument all by itself.
Match12 May 2029
The run at home goes on for KR
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Market14 May 2029
“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 Davíð Ingvarsson.
Squad14 May 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sverrir Saevarsson and KR agree another 4 years.
Match12 May 2029
It needed Gabríel Hrannar Eyjólfsson to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against IBV, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Uneasy
Boardroom7 May 2029
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Boardroom7 May 2029
KR have nobody left to take training
Not an interim appointment — an institution with an empty coaching office. Somebody unfamiliar will run the sessions this week, and the question of how a club gets into this state is one the board will be asked and will not answer.
Boardroom7 May 2029
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Squad7 May 2029
Luke Rae signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luke Rae and KR agree another 4 years.
Squad7 May 2029
A falling-out at KR
Aron Sigurðarson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom7 May 2029
Graduation day at KR
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match5 May 2029
KR end the wait against Stjarnan
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad7 May 2029
Michael Akoto 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.
Market7 May 2029
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sverrir Saevarsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Uneasy
Market30 Apr 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around KR the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad30 Apr 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Aron Sigurðarson 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 dugout30 Apr 2029
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 Arnór Ingvi Traustason is on it.
The dugout30 Apr 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market30 Apr 2029
The Luke Rae story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Luke Rae signs something — a contract at KR or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Apr 2029
Words exchanged at KR
Davíð Ingvarsson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad23 Apr 2029
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Apr 2029
When it matters, Luke Rae plays
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.
Market23 Apr 2029
The name of Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KR say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad23 Apr 2029
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
The dugout23 Apr 2029
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Michael Akoto has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets16 Apr 2029
Stjarnan wanted more than $510.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Words exchanged at KR
Aron Sigurðarson 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 Apr 2029
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michael Akoto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Apr 2029
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 Apr 2029
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Stefán Árni Geirsson signs something — a contract at KR or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout16 Apr 2029
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.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Apr 2029
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Apr 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Michael Akoto and KR agree another 3 years.
Squad9 Apr 2029
A falling-out at KR
Michael Akoto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Apr 2029
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Apr 2029
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.
Market9 Apr 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Halldór Snær Georgsson’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market9 Apr 2029
5 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what KR could get for him.
The dugout9 Apr 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KR, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market9 Apr 2029
KR spent the window trying to move Ármann Ingi Finnbogason on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager plants his flag on Aron Sigurðarson
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Match
A season winding down at KR
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Apr 2029
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market2 Apr 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around KR the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad2 Apr 2029
198 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
Deadline passes with 4 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at KR 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.
Squad2 Apr 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Michael Akoto commits to KR for another 3 years.
Squad2 Apr 2029
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.
Market2 Apr 2029
“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 dugout2 Apr 2029
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 Arnór Ingvi Traustason is on it.
Market2 Apr 2029
The Luke Rae story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Luke Rae signs something — a contract at KR or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Mar 2029
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets26 Mar 2029
The offer went to Stjarnan 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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Tempers go at KR
Aron Sigurðarson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad26 Mar 2029
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luke Rae was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Mar 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Róbert Elís Hlynsson commits to KR for another 4 years.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
Luke Rae gets picked when it counts
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 Luke Rae is on it.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KR, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market26 Mar 2029
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
Squad19 Mar 2029
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.
Market19 Mar 2029
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Breidablik waiting with a shirt. Nobody at KR is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets19 Mar 2029
KR offered $450.0K; Stjarnan 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.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Words exchanged at KR
Michael Akoto and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Market19 Mar 2029
One of our own: Emil Arnason joins the KR first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Emil Arnason is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Mar 2029
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Aron Magnusson 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.
Market19 Mar 2029
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alfred Hermannsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout19 Mar 2029
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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Uneasy
Squad12 Mar 2029
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.
Transfer targets12 Mar 2029
The offer went to Stjarnan 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.
Squad12 Mar 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aron Sigurðarson 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 targets12 Mar 2029
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rosenborg have kept their man, and KR go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market12 Mar 2029
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. KR will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
The dugout12 Mar 2029
“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.
The dugout12 Mar 2029
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.
Squad12 Mar 2029
A wage question at KR
Michael Akoto has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Mar 2029
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.
Transfer targets5 Mar 2029
The deal with Rosenborg is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad5 Mar 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson and KR agree another 4 years.
Squad5 Mar 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Luke Rae 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.
Market5 Mar 2029
“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 Orri Hrafn Kjartansson.
The dugout5 Mar 2029
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout5 Mar 2029
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Orri Hrafn Kjartansson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market5 Mar 2029
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
Squad26 Feb 2029
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.
Market26 Feb 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around KR they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad26 Feb 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Feb 2029
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets26 Feb 2029
Rosenborg 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.
The dugout26 Feb 2029
Luke Rae 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 Feb 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout26 Feb 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KR, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market26 Feb 2029
The Luke Rae question follows KR around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luke Rae’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager comes out for Luke Rae
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Boardroom
KR keep producing them
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Match
Mid-table, and KR know it
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Feb 2029
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.
Market19 Feb 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at KR, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets19 Feb 2029
Stjarnan wanted more than $450.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad19 Feb 2029
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.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Aron Sigurðarson 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 dugout19 Feb 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
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.
Squad19 Feb 2029
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Market19 Feb 2029
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson signs something — a contract at KR or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Feb 2029
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.
Market12 Feb 2029
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Breidablik waiting with a shirt. Nobody at KR is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2029
$450.0K on the table at Stjarnan. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad12 Feb 2029
A falling-out at KR
Aron Sigurðarson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Feb 2029
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luke Rae was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
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 Finnur Tómas Pálmason is on it.
Market12 Feb 2029
7 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs KR money.
Market12 Feb 2029
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.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KR, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Feb 2029
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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad5 Feb 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aron Sigurðarson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market5 Feb 2029
“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.
Transfer targets5 Feb 2029
KR 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.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
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.
Market5 Feb 2029
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad29 Jan 2029
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 92 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Words exchanged at KR
Davíð Ingvarsson 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.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Aron Sigurðarson 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 dugout29 Jan 2029
Luke Rae 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 dugout29 Jan 2029
Davíð Ingvarsson 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.
Market29 Jan 2029
The Luke Rae question follows KR around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luke Rae’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout29 Jan 2029
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.
The dugout29 Jan 2029
The manager comes out for Luke Rae
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Luke Rae has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Boardroom29 Jan 2029
KR keep producing them
30 graduates from an academy now rated 9 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Jan 2029
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.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Words exchanged at KR
Michael Akoto 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.
Squad22 Jan 2029
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luke Rae was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Jan 2029
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 107 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad15 Jan 2029
A falling-out at KR
Michael Akoto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aron Sigurðarson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Jan 2029
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.
Squad8 Jan 2029
48 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad8 Jan 2029
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.
Squad8 Jan 2029
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
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 Arnór Ingvi Traustason is on it.
Market8 Jan 2029
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Jan 2029
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.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Tempers go at KR
Aron Sigurðarson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luke Rae 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 dugout1 Jan 2029
When it matters, Luke Rae plays
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.
Market1 Jan 2029
The Luke Rae question follows KR around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luke Rae’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout1 Jan 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KR, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Dec 2028
Words exchanged at KR
Michael Akoto 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.
Squad25 Dec 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Dec 2028
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.
Market25 Dec 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson signs something — a contract at KR or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout25 Dec 2028
“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.
Squad25 Dec 2028
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Dec 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
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 Finnur Tómas Pálmason is on it.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market18 Dec 2028
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout11 Dec 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” KR may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad11 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Luke Rae 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 dugout11 Dec 2028
Davíð Ingvarsson 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.
The dugout11 Dec 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market11 Dec 2028
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.
In brief
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Squad
A wage question at KR
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The dugout
The manager plants his flag on Michael Akoto
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Dec 2028
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. KR will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aron Sigurðarson commits to KR for another 2 years.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Tempers go at KR
Michael Akoto was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad4 Dec 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market4 Dec 2028
“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 Davíð Ingvarsson.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
When it matters, Luke Rae plays
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.
Market4 Dec 2028
The Luke Rae question follows KR around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luke Rae’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
“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.
In brief
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The dugout
Eiður Orri Ragnarsson has been promised minutes
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Boardroom
The KR academy earns its keep
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Match
Nothing left to play for but pride at KR
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout27 Nov 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” KR may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad27 Nov 2028
Tempers go at KR
Davíð Ingvarsson 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.
Squad27 Nov 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout27 Nov 2028
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.
Market27 Nov 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson signs something — a contract at KR or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout27 Nov 2028
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout20 Nov 2028
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” KR have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad20 Nov 2028
A falling-out at KR
Aron Sigurðarson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad20 Nov 2028
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luke Rae 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.
Squad20 Nov 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Hjalti Sigurðsson and KR agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout20 Nov 2028
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 Finnur Tómas Pálmason is on it.
Market20 Nov 2028
“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 Allan Purisevic.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad13 Nov 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aron Sigurðarson 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 dugout13 Nov 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Róbert Elís Hlynsson, and the manager let it.
The dugout13 Nov 2028
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.
Market13 Nov 2028
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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at KR that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad6 Nov 2028
Tempers go at KR
Michael Akoto 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.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Market6 Nov 2028
“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 dugout6 Nov 2028
Luke Rae 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.
Market6 Nov 2028
The Luke Rae question follows KR around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luke Rae’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout6 Nov 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KR, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Oct 2028
Words exchanged at KR
Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Squad30 Oct 2028
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luke Rae 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 dugout30 Oct 2028
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Oct 2028
A falling-out at KR
Michael Akoto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Aron Sigurðarson 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 dugout23 Oct 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KR, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Oct 2028
19 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.
Squad16 Oct 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Aron Sigurðarson 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 dugout16 Oct 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Róbert Elís Hlynsson, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Oct 2028
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 Arnór Ingvi Traustason is on it.
Market16 Oct 2028
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Oct 2028
26 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.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Tempers go at KR
Aron Sigurðarson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad9 Oct 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luke Rae was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Oct 2028
Luke Rae gets picked when it counts
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 Luke Rae is on it.
Market9 Oct 2028
The Luke Rae question follows KR around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luke Rae’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Halldór Snær Georgsson joins up with his country. KR lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad2 Oct 2028
33 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.
Match2 Oct 2028
The season ends: position 8 for KR
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 26 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Match30 Sep 2028
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.
Match30 Sep 2028
After 11 games, KR finally taste it again
The first defeat in 11 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Vikingur; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Squad2 Oct 2028
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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Match30 Sep 2028
A bad afternoon for KR against Vikingur
0‑2 to Vikingur, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout2 Oct 2028
“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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Sep 2028
40 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.
Player ratings25 Sep 2028
A brace, and Alfred Bjarnason takes the afternoon — 8.26
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Alfred Bjarnason provided it, and the 8.26 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match23 Sep 2028
11 unbeaten for KR
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation KR did not have in the autumn.
Match23 Sep 2028
No end in sight to KR's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at KR has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad25 Sep 2028
A falling-out at KR
Michael Akoto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Aron Sigurðarson 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 ratings25 Sep 2028
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.
The terraces25 Sep 2028
KR supporters have found a favourite in Alfred Bjarnason
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Alfred Bjarnason 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 dugout25 Sep 2028
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad18 Sep 2028
47 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.
Match16 Sep 2028
Still nobody has beaten KR
The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Finnur Tómas Pálmason scored, was marked 7.68, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” KR may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match16 Sep 2028
No end in sight to KR's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at KR has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad18 Sep 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Sep 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luke Rae was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match16 Sep 2028
Honours even between KR and FH
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Sep 2028
55 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.
Match9 Sep 2028
Still nobody has beaten KR
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Words exchanged at KR
Michael Akoto 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aron Sigurðarson 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 ratings11 Sep 2028
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 dugout11 Sep 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Davíð Ingvarsson, and the manager let it.
Market11 Sep 2028
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson has his answer from KR; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad11 Sep 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kolbeinn Smarason commits to KR for another 3 years.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad4 Sep 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 64 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.
Match2 Sep 2028
8 unbeaten for KR
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation KR did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
The game went through Luke Rae — 7.76
Marked 7.76 on 16 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Tempers go at KR
Michael Akoto was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aron Sigurðarson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 13 actions, 7.76, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Match2 Sep 2028
KR rescue it on 86 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 86. Breidablik had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market4 Sep 2028
“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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad28 Aug 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 71 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.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match26 Aug 2028
Whatever happens, KR do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad28 Aug 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Luke Rae 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.
Match26 Aug 2028
Valur end the KR run at 5
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 5 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.20, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Ástbjörn Þórðarson will call it something else in private.
Match26 Aug 2028
It needed Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Valur, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad21 Aug 2028
80 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.
Market21 Aug 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at KR, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match19 Aug 2028
Nobody wants to play KR right now
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Market21 Aug 2028
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Vikingur moved on, Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson reports back to KR, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Deadline passes with 4 signed and 5 gone
That is the business done at KR 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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A falling-out at KR
Michael Akoto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Aron Sigurðarson falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Nobody could get near Luke Rae
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
KR asked and Crvena Zvezda said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Aug 2028
89 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.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Two goals and a mark of 8.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match12 Aug 2028
KR cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
The deal with Stjarnan is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad14 Aug 2028
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.
Match12 Aug 2028
It finished 3‑2, and it was Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to KR.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Match12 Aug 2028
KR keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
“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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Upbeat
Squad7 Aug 2028
96 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 Aug 2028
190 appearances across 10 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and KR know what they have.
Match5 Aug 2028
Nobody wants to play KR right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Tempers go at KR
Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luke Rae was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match5 Aug 2028
KR get the job done against IA
A 1‑0 win over IA, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market7 Aug 2028
“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.
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
A mark of 7.99, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Steady
Squad31 Jul 2028
104 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.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
A brace, and Luke Rae takes the afternoon — 9.22
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Luke Rae provided it, and the 9.22 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market31 Jul 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KR can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Jul 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad31 Jul 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match29 Jul 2028
KR find a way past IBV
IBV made KR work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Stefan Smarason kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Jul 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 114 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
Both of them Luke Rae's — 9.24
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.24, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market24 Jul 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KR can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Jul 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2028
KR and Vikingur have settled on $22.0K. 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.
Match22 Jul 2028
The drought breaks for KR
8 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Stjarnan were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2028
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Crvena Zvezda is saying, and nobody at KR is enjoying the guessing.
Squad24 Jul 2028
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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad17 Jul 2028
122 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.
Match12 Jul 2028
KR bow out of the cup
Breidablik go through and KR go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match15 Jul 2028
No end in sight to KR's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at KR has to find a result from somewhere.
Market17 Jul 2028
Add another name to the list: IFK Mariehamn have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jakob Gunnar Sigurðsson. The answer from KR has not changed — yet.
Squad17 Jul 2028
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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Luke Rae 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 dugout17 Jul 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match17 Jul 2028
The half-term report on KR
Position 10, 6 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
Match15 Jul 2028
KR caught on 89 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Vikingur scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
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Crisis
Squad10 Jul 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 130 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 Jul 2028
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.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” KR may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Tempers go at KR
Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.
Match8 Jul 2028
6 goals as KR and Leiknir go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between KR and Leiknir, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match8 Jul 2028
KR come up short against Leiknir
Leiknir left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Jul 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings10 Jul 2028
A performance of 8.51 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings10 Jul 2028
A performance of 8.44 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Crisis
Squad3 Jul 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 138 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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
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.
Match3 Jul 2028
KR are in real trouble now
Position 10, 5 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.
Match1 Jul 2028
No end in sight to KR's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at KR has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad3 Jul 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Halldór Snær Georgsson and KR agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Jul 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Jul 2028
KR come up short against FH
FH left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout3 Jul 2028
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 1‑2 Stefan Smarason left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings3 Jul 2028
Luke Rae beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. 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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Crisis
Squad26 Jun 2028
147 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.
Match24 Jun 2028
Nowhere to hide for KR
1‑4 against Keflavik, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad26 Jun 2028
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.
The dugout26 Jun 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match24 Jun 2028
The wait goes on for KR
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 Jun 2028
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.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luke Rae 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.
Boardroom26 Jun 2028
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.
The dugout26 Jun 2028
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Stefan Smarason after 1‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Crisis
Squad19 Jun 2028
154 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
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.
Market19 Jun 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KR can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Jun 2028
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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Jun 2028
3 matches without a goal for KR
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match17 Jun 2028
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout19 Jun 2028
“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.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Squad12 Jun 2028
161 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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Jun 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match10 Jun 2028
KR come up short against Valur
Valur left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
“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.
Market12 Jun 2028
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Gyrðir Hrafn Guðbrandsson has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at KR.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
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.
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Crisis
Squad5 Jun 2028
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.
The dugout5 Jun 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad5 Jun 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Jun 2028
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 Jun 2028
KR come up short against Fylkir
Fylkir left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 Jun 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market5 Jun 2028
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Orri Hrafn Kjartansson has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at KR.
The dugout5 Jun 2028
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Stefan Smarason after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings5 Jun 2028
A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and KR will not try tonight.
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Uneasy
Squad29 May 2028
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.
Match27 May 2028
93 minutes played. Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Fjolnir went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad29 May 2028
A falling-out at KR
Michael Akoto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings29 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad29 May 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arnór Ingvi Traustason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match27 May 2028
KR get the job done against Fjolnir
A 2‑1 win over Fjolnir, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces29 May 2028
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match27 May 2028
At last: KR win one
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Fjolnir. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Player ratings29 May 2028
Marked 8.15 — 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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Uneasy
Squad22 May 2028
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.
Market22 May 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KR can pretend not to have heard.
Match20 May 2028
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.
Squad22 May 2028
Words exchanged at KR
Michael Akoto 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.
Squad22 May 2028
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.
Squad22 May 2028
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings22 May 2028
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.91 on the card, and the KR support went home talking about one name.
The dugout22 May 2028
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.
Match20 May 2028
KR and IA 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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Uneasy
Squad15 May 2028
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.
Squad15 May 2028
6 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.
Match13 May 2028
The wait goes on for KR
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.
Squad15 May 2028
Tempers go at KR
Aron Sigurðarson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad15 May 2028
Luke Rae 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.
Match13 May 2028
The goals have deserted KR
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at KR can tell you which week it ends in.
The dugout15 May 2028
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 dugout15 May 2028
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Player ratings15 May 2028
Luke Rae runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad8 May 2028
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.
Boardroom8 May 2028
KR moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Stefan Smarason, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.
Squad8 May 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Arnór Ingvi Traustason and KR agree another 2 years.
Squad8 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 May 2028
4 academy graduates step up at KR
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad8 May 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 May 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market8 May 2028
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Olafur Halldorsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 May 2028
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Olafur Gunnarsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Squad1 May 2028
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.
Squad1 May 2028
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.
Squad1 May 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 May 2028
“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 dugout1 May 2028
When it matters, Luke Rae plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead1 May 2028
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Allan Purisevic’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.
Market1 May 2028
Luke Rae linked with a move away
The name of Luke Rae keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KR say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout1 May 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad1 May 2028
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at KR has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
In brief
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Looking ahead
Home comforts ahead for KR
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The dugout
Luke Rae keeps his manager's vote
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Apr 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market24 Apr 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KR can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Apr 2028
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.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Luke Rae 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 Apr 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market24 Apr 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Stefán Árni Geirsson signs something — a contract at KR or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
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.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Aron Sigurðarson has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
In brief
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Squad
Bjarki Hauksson is not doing himself any favours
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Boardroom
The KR board put their names to it
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Apr 2028
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.
Squad17 Apr 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Úlfur Ágúst Björnsson and KR agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Tempers go at KR
Arnór Ingvi Traustason was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Aron Sigurðarson 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 dugout17 Apr 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Apr 2028
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.
Match10 Apr 2028
KR are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 41 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad10 Apr 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Aron Sigurðarson 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 targets10 Apr 2028
The clock did what Stjarnan would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad10 Apr 2028
25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout10 Apr 2028
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 dugout10 Apr 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Úlfur Ágúst Björnsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market10 Apr 2028
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Apr 2028
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.
Transfer targets3 Apr 2028
KR and Stjarnan have settled on $290.0K. 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.
Boardroom3 Apr 2028
KR close the window on a squad of their own making
0 in and 3 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.
Squad3 Apr 2028
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.
Squad3 Apr 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luke Rae was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Apr 2028
“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 Apr 2028
Luke Rae gets picked when it counts
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 Luke Rae is on it.
Market3 Apr 2028
Luke Rae linked with a move away
The name of Luke Rae keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KR say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout3 Apr 2028
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad27 Mar 2028
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.
Transfer targets27 Mar 2028
Everything agreed with Valur, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Words exchanged at KR
Michael Akoto 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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Róbert Elís Hlynsson and KR agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
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 dugout27 Mar 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market27 Mar 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Stefán Árni Geirsson signs something — a contract at KR or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
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.
In brief
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The dugout
Bjarki Hauksson knocks on the manager’s door
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Boardroom
KR board back the manager
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad20 Mar 2028
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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Tempers go at KR
Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.
Transfer targets20 Mar 2028
KR asked and Valur said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Aron Sigurðarson 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 dugout20 Mar 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market20 Mar 2028
The name of Halldór Snær Georgsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KR say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad13 Mar 2028
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.
Match13 Mar 2028
KR refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 41 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad13 Mar 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luke Rae 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 dugout13 Mar 2028
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.
Market13 Mar 2028
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad6 Mar 2028
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.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
The clubs have shaken hands with Stjarnan; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad6 Mar 2028
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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Aron Þórður Albertsson and KR agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 Mar 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Luke Rae gets picked when it counts
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 Luke Rae is on it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Feb 2028
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.
Transfer targets28 Feb 2028
The clubs have shaken hands with Valur; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad28 Feb 2028
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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aron Sigurðarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
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 Arnór Ingvi Traustason is on it.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
“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.
Market28 Feb 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Stefán Árni Geirsson signs something — a contract at KR or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market28 Feb 2028
KR have let the market know Bjarki Hauksson can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Feb 2028
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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Tempers go at KR
Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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.
Transfer targets21 Feb 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Valur have kept their man, and KR go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luke Rae 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 dugout21 Feb 2028
“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 Feb 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market21 Feb 2028
The name of Halldór Snær Georgsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KR say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
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.
Market21 Feb 2028
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Alfred Bodvarsson leaves KR the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Feb 2028
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.
Match14 Feb 2028
KR refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 41 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad14 Feb 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Aron Sigurðarson falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
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.
Market14 Feb 2028
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.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
Bjarki Hauksson 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.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Feb 2028
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.
Market7 Feb 2028
Breidablik 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A falling-out at KR
Michael Akoto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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 dugout7 Feb 2028
When it matters, Luke Rae plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KR, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market7 Feb 2028
Luke Rae linked with a move away
The name of Luke Rae keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KR say nothing, which says plenty.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
KR can sign again
The window is open, and with it the only month of the year when a supporter’s hopes are limited by nothing but arithmetic. The board know the arithmetic; the supporters know the hopes.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market31 Jan 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at KR
Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arnór Ingvi Traustason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
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 Arnór Ingvi Traustason is on it.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market31 Jan 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Stefán Árni Geirsson signs something — a contract at KR or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
The training reports on Allan Purisevic are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Finnur Tómas Pálmason has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Jan 2028
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arnór Ingvi Traustason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
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 Finnur Tómas Pálmason is on it.
Market24 Jan 2028
The name of Halldór Snær Georgsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KR say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KR, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match17 Jan 2028
KR refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 41 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad17 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Jan 2028
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 dugout17 Jan 2028
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 dugout17 Jan 2028
“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.
Market17 Jan 2028
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Jan 2028
A falling-out at KR
Aron Sigurðarson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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 dugout10 Jan 2028
When it matters, Luke Rae plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KR, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market10 Jan 2028
Luke Rae linked with a move away
The name of Luke Rae keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KR say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Eiður Orri Ragnarsson has written the date down.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Jan 2028
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad3 Jan 2028
A falling-out at KR
Aron Sigurðarson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Words at KR training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnór Ingvi Traustason 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 dugout3 Jan 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Allan Purisevic
“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 dugout3 Jan 2028
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout27 Dec 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” KR have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad27 Dec 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Dec 2027
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arnór Ingvi Traustason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout27 Dec 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.
The dugout27 Dec 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.
Market27 Dec 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match20 Dec 2027
KR up to position 3
41 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at KR
Davíð Ingvarsson 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.
Squad20 Dec 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ragnar Eyjolfsson commits to KR for another 3 years.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
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 dugout20 Dec 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad13 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at KR
Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arnór Ingvi Traustason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
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.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
When it matters, Luke Rae plays
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.
Market13 Dec 2027
The Luke Rae talk will not go away
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.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexander Helgi Sigurðarson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout6 Dec 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad6 Dec 2027
A falling-out at KR
Michael Akoto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad6 Dec 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.
Market6 Dec 2027
One of our own: Johann Ingason joins the KR first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Johann Ingason is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market6 Dec 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ragnar Eyjolfsson 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.
Market6 Dec 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alfred Thorsteinsson 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.
Market6 Dec 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bjorn Eyjolfsson 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.
The dugout6 Dec 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 dugout6 Dec 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad29 Nov 2027
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.
Squad29 Nov 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.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
“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 dugout29 Nov 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.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gylfi Johannsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market29 Nov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match22 Nov 2027
KR up to position 3
41 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Tempers go at KR
Aron Sigurðarson 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.
Squad22 Nov 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.
The dugout22 Nov 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 dugout22 Nov 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.
Market22 Nov 2027
The name of Stefán Árni Geirsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KR say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad15 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at KR
Michael Akoto 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.
Squad15 Nov 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.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Luke Rae gets picked when it counts
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 Luke Rae is on it.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Allan Purisevic, and the manager let it.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Úlfur Ágúst Björnsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market15 Nov 2027
The Luke Rae talk will not go away
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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Steady
Squad8 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KR this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A row about effort at KR
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arnór Ingvi Traustason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Róbert Elís Hlynsson and KR agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout8 Nov 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 Arnór Ingvi Traustason is on it.
Market8 Nov 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Eiður Gauti Sæbjörnsson’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
Allan Purisevic 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.