From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dagur Ingi Hammer 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.
Squad7 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.46 — 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Leiknir, another week without a signature from Dawid Polkowski.
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jóhannes Kristinn Bjarnason did not need any: 8.90, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dagur Ingi Hammer 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 terraces31 Aug 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad31 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.74 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
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
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Viktor Andri Pétursson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leiknir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market24 Aug 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Fylkir moved on, Marko Zivkovic reports back to Leiknir, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Đorđe Vladisavljević 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 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Match22 Aug 2026
It needed Dagur Ingi Hammer to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against IA, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Leiknir out
Out, 0‑1 to Stjarnan, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Leiknir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Arnór Daði Aðalsteinsson has agreed terms with Vikingur for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Leiknir come up short against IBV
IBV left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match15 Aug 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Leiknir and IBV in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Dagur Ingi Hammer 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Dawid Polkowski
“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.
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Crisis
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 9 of the 24 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Leiknir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Viktor Andri Pétursson has agreed terms with Valur for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dawid Polkowski 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.
Squad10 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 8.23 — 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Leiknir, another week without a signature from Dawid Polkowski.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Róbert Quental Árnason, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.36
A mark of 8.36 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson and Leiknir agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Đorđe Vladisavljević 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 terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Róbert Quental Árnason 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Đorđe Vladisavljević, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Vikingur leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.