From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Leiknir
Alexander Berntsson 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Árni Elvar Árnason 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market26 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Róbert Quental Árnason signs something — a contract at Leiknir or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Óskar Jónsson 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.
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Uneasy
Market19 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Marko Zivkovic
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marko Zivkovic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leiknir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Róbert Quental Árnason commits to Leiknir for another 4 years.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Leiknir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Róbert Quental Árnason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Leiknir
Đorđe Vladisavljević and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marko Zivkovic, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kári Steinn Hlífarsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Match12 Oct 2026
Leiknir are in real trouble now
Position 11, 4 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Leiknir can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Leiknir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rúrik Gunnarsson commits to Leiknir for another 4 years.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Haukur Gudmundsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Leiknir
10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Leiknir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ali Kachmar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
The terraces5 Oct 2026
Supporters organise against the Leiknir board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Market5 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Leiknir
Alexander Berntsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Árni Elvar Árnason 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 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Leiknir
10 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Leiknir
Alexander Berntsson 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.09 — 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Árni Elvar Árnason 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 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Stefan Gudmundsson was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Leiknir dressing room was either.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Viktor Andri Pétursson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Leiknir's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Leiknir has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Marko Zivkovic
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marko Zivkovic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leiknir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Axel Freyr Harðarson 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Leiknir against KR
0‑1 to KR, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ali Kachmar 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 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Edon Osmani
“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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Uneasy
Match14 Sep 2026
Leiknir sink to position 12
3 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Leiknir
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Leiknir are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A brace, and Dagur Ingi Hammer takes the afternoon — 8.81
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Dagur Ingi Hammer provided it, and the 8.81 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Leiknir can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Karan Gurung and Leiknir agree another 3 years.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Leiknir
Birnir Breki Burknason and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Karan Gurung gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Árni Elvar Árnason falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Crisis
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Leiknir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Leiknir
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Leiknir are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ali Kachmar gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ali Kachmar has just signed for Leiknir, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Leiknir
Alexander Berntsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ali Kachmar and Leiknir agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match5 Sep 2026
Fylkir left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Árni Elvar Árnason 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Stefan Gudmundsson after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Leiknir
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Róbert Quental Árnason did not need any: 7.74, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Birnir Breki Burknason was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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 dugout31 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Stefan Gudmundsson left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Leiknir, and it is a cruel one.
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Uneasy
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Leiknir's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Leiknir has to find a result from somewhere.
Market24 Aug 2026
Marko Zivkovic has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leiknir they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Marko Zivkovic has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Market24 Aug 2026
The deal that would have taken Þorsteinn Emil Jónsson to IBV has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Leiknir with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Alexander Berntsson 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 targets24 Aug 2026
The clock did what Vikingur would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Róbert Quental Árnason 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ívar Björgvinsson commits to Leiknir for another 3 years.
Market24 Aug 2026
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Leiknir were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
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Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
Leiknir out of the cup
Stjarnan ended it 0‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Róbert Quental Árnason did not need any: 7.76, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Leiknir close the window on a squad of their own making
13 in and 0 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Leiknir
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Leiknir are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 6.81 on 15 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The offer went to Vikingur 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Breidablik wanted more than $63.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Þorsteinn Emil Jónsson again, and this time the name on the line is IBV. Leiknir are listening politely and promising nothing.
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Crisis
Match8 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Leiknir
A 0‑3 beating by Stjarnan was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Leiknir
Alexander Berntsson 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 targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andri Halldorsson 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hordur Fridjonsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hordur Bodvarsson 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Emil Gudmundsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Brynjar Hlöðvers, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Leiknir know which stage they are at.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match1 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for Leiknir
0‑3 against Vikingur, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad3 Aug 2026
159 appearances across 11 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dagur Ingi Hammer and Leiknir agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Leiknir
Axel Freyr Harðarson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Leiknir dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.