From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match14 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Leiknir's wait for a win
16 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Leiknir has to find a result from somewhere.
Match16 Aug 2027
Leiknir sink to position 12
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market16 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Leiknir can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Valur is saying, and nobody at Leiknir is enjoying the guessing.
Squad16 Aug 2027
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.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
FH wanted more than $37.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Leiknir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Đorđe Vladisavljević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match14 Aug 2027
Leiknir leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
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Uneasy
Match7 Aug 2027
15 matches without a win for Leiknir
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Leiknir are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Björgvin Brimi Andrésson did not need any: 7.75, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market9 Aug 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Leiknir, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market9 Aug 2027
Leiknir say no — this time
The offer from FH for Hólmar Kári Tryggvason 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.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
The deal with Valur 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson commits to Leiknir for another 2 years.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
$31.0K on the table at FH. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Leiknir offered $27.0K; Vikingur 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Đorđe Vladisavljević 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
Match31 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Leiknir's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Leiknir has to find a result from somewhere.
The terraces2 Aug 2027
The mood at Leiknir has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market2 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Leiknir can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market2 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson commits to Leiknir for another 2 years.
Squad2 Aug 2027
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.
Match31 Jul 2027
1‑3 to Vikingur, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Leiknir can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
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Crisis
Match24 Jul 2027
13 matches without a win for Leiknir
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Leiknir are no longer polite ones.
Match24 Jul 2027
Chastening afternoon for Leiknir
A 0‑4 beating by Breidablik was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market26 Jul 2027
KR come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Leiknir did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad26 Jul 2027
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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Add another name to the list: FH have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Hólmar Kári Tryggvason. The answer from Leiknir has not changed — yet.
The dugout26 Jul 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
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.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
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 Jul 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sigurdur Adalsteinsson after 0‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Crisis
Match17 Jul 2027
The wait goes on for Leiknir
12 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.
Match19 Jul 2027
Leiknir sink to position 12
5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market19 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bogdan Bogdanovic commits to Leiknir for another 4 years.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Leiknir asked and Keflavik said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad19 Jul 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 Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market19 Jul 2027
Add another name to the list: KR have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Þorsteinn Emil Jónsson. The answer from Leiknir has not changed — yet.
Match17 Jul 2027
A bad afternoon for Leiknir against FH
0‑1 to FH, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Crisis
Match10 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Leiknir's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Leiknir has to find a result from somewhere.
Match10 Jul 2027
Leiknir are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 8 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match10 Jul 2027
1‑3 to Keflavik, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Jul 2027
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 dugout12 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Björgvin Brimi Andrésson, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Leiknir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Brynjar Hlöðvers was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
9 combined actions and 7.37. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Match12 Jul 2027
Halfway: Leiknir sit in position 12
5 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Crisis
Match3 Jul 2027
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.
Match3 Jul 2027
No clean sheets in sight for Leiknir
7 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match3 Jul 2027
A bad afternoon for Leiknir against KR
0‑2 to KR, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Jul 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Leiknir
Daði Bærings Halldórsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Leiknir sign 6 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Björgvin Brimi Andrésson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Crisis
Match26 Jun 2027
Chastening afternoon for Leiknir
A 1‑4 beating by Valur was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match26 Jun 2027
The wait goes on for Leiknir
9 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.
Match26 Jun 2027
Leiknir leaking at the back
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Boardroom28 Jun 2027
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Romeo Ljunggren 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.
Squad28 Jun 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.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
10 combined actions and 7.65. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Boardroom28 Jun 2027
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.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
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 1‑4 Sigurdur Adalsteinsson left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Crisis
Market21 Jun 2027
“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.
Match21 Jun 2027
Leiknir sink to position 11
5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match19 Jun 2027
No end in sight to Leiknir's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Leiknir has to find a result from somewhere.
Match19 Jun 2027
Leiknir leaking at the back
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match19 Jun 2027
3 matches without a goal for Leiknir
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.
Match19 Jun 2027
Fylkir left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Jun 2027
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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Đorđe Vladisavljević was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Crisis
Squad14 Jun 2027
10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match12 Jun 2027
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.
Match12 Jun 2027
No clean sheets in sight for Leiknir
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match12 Jun 2027
Fjolnir left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Jun 2027
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.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“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.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Xhoel Hajdari and Leiknir agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout14 Jun 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.
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Crisis
Match2 Jun 2027
The cup run ends for Leiknir
1‑3 against Stjarnan, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match5 Jun 2027
0‑3 to IA, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
The dugout7 Jun 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match5 Jun 2027
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.
Loan watch7 Jun 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Leiknir, and 2 appearances in 12 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Leiknir
Birnir Breki Burknason 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.
Squad7 Jun 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.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
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.
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Steady
Squad31 May 2027
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match29 May 2027
The wait goes on for Leiknir
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.
Squad31 May 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Leiknir know it.
Squad31 May 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 Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces31 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-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.
Player ratings31 May 2027
A performance of 8.41 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brynjar Hlöðvers 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 ratings31 May 2027
A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match29 May 2027
IBV snatch it back from Leiknir
A goal on 88 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
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Steady
Squad24 May 2027
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.
Squad24 May 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 Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 May 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.
Match22 May 2027
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Björgvin Brimi Andrésson had Leiknir level again within 2 minutes, and Stjarnan never got to play with a lead at all.
The dugout24 May 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.
Match22 May 2027
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 dugout24 May 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Sigurdur Adalsteinsson was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Leiknir dressing room was either.
The dugout24 May 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.
Squad24 May 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Leiknir have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Crisis
Match15 May 2027
Nowhere to hide for Leiknir
0‑4 against Vikingur, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
The dugout17 May 2027
“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.
Squad17 May 2027
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad17 May 2027
Words exchanged at Leiknir
Bogdan Bogdanovic and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout17 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adam Örn Arnarson, and the manager let it.
Squad17 May 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.
Boardroom17 May 2027
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.
The dugout17 May 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout17 May 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 Đorđe Vladisavljević is on it.
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Crisis
Match8 May 2027
Chastening afternoon for Leiknir
A 0‑3 beating by Breidablik was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad10 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad10 May 2027
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 dugout10 May 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brynjar Hlöðvers 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.
Boardroom10 May 2027
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.
The dugout10 May 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sigurdur Adalsteinsson after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad10 May 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Noel Lundgren commits to Leiknir for another 3 years.
The dugout10 May 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 Dagur Ingi Hammer is on it.
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Upbeat
Player ratings3 May 2027
Marked 7.73 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad3 May 2027
Words exchanged at Leiknir
Axel Freyr Harðarson 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.
Boardroom3 May 2027
Graduation day at Leiknir
1 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.
The terraces3 May 2027
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.
Market3 May 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Birkir Halldorsson 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.
Match1 May 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Róbert Quental Árnason’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Leiknir.
Squad3 May 2027
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.
The dugout3 May 2027
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.” Sigurdur Adalsteinsson kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Boardroom3 May 2027
Leiknir turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Apr 2027
Đorđe Vladisavljević 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 Apr 2027
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 Apr 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 Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson is on it.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Apr 2027
Đorđe Vladisavljević 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Brynjar Hlöðvers 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Leiknir are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Nobody at Leiknir 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.
Market19 Apr 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Róbert Quental Árnason’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Leiknir. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Uneasy
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Hannes Pétur Hauksson 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
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.
Squad12 Apr 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 dugout12 Apr 2027
Dagur Ingi Hammer has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Leiknir 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 dugout12 Apr 2027
“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.
Market12 Apr 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Dagur Ingi Hammer’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“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.
Market12 Apr 2027
Leiknir spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Óskar Jónsson is not doing himself any favours
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.
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Uneasy
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Leiknir
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Deadline passes with 8 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Leiknir 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Leiknir can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad5 Apr 2027
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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
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.
Market5 Apr 2027
Dagur Dan Kristinsson is 20, and Leiknir have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad5 Apr 2027
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Leiknir are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout5 Apr 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 dugout5 Apr 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Leiknir, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets29 Mar 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad29 Mar 2027
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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Brynjar Hlöðvers 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 Mar 2027
Nobody at Leiknir 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 Mar 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Axel Freyr Harðarson’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets22 Mar 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad22 Mar 2027
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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
5 new faces, and Leiknir are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Nobody at Leiknir 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 dugout22 Mar 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Leiknir, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market22 Mar 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Róbert Quental Árnason’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Transfer targets15 Mar 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. IA have kept their man, and Leiknir go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad15 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Mar 2027
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.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market15 Mar 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Dagur Ingi Hammer’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad15 Mar 2027
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: AS Police keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Đorđe Vladisavljević commits to Leiknir for another 4 years.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad8 Mar 2027
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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Everyone has stopped pretending: IBV will make the call about Aron Skúli Brynjarsson this week. Leiknir have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
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Uneasy
Market1 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Leiknir can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Mar 2027
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Leiknir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dagur Ingi Hammer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad1 Mar 2027
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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout1 Mar 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 Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson is on it.
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Uneasy
Market22 Feb 2027
Fylkir come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Leiknir did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
The deal with Fylkir 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Leiknir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dagur Ingi Hammer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. IA have kept their man, and Leiknir go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Đorđe Vladisavljević 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 Feb 2027
Leiknir are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout22 Feb 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Leiknir will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market22 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Róbert Quental Árnason’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Leiknir have done the hard part with Vikingur, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Leiknir
Axel Freyr Harðarson 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 targets15 Feb 2027
Leiknir asked and Keflavik said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market15 Feb 2027
Add another name to the list: Fylkir have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Hólmar Kári Tryggvason. The answer from Leiknir has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
IA 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 dugout15 Feb 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 dugout15 Feb 2027
Dagur Ingi Hammer has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Leiknir 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Leiknir are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hólmar Kári Tryggvason 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.
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Uneasy
Market8 Feb 2027
Leiknir say no — this time
The offer from FH for Róbert Quental Árnason 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A move Sheriff Stowe would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sheriff Stowe is living that version at Leiknir, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Everything agreed with Breidablik, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Breidablik have kept their man, and Leiknir go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Leiknir
Birnir Breki Burknason 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hordur Gudmundsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Roberts Bočs commits to Leiknir for another 3 years.
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Uneasy
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Leiknir
Đorđe Vladisavljević and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout1 Feb 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roberts Bočs and Leiknir agree another 3 years.
Market1 Feb 2027
Roberts Bočs is 20, and Leiknir have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad1 Feb 2027
No place for Roberts Bočs in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Leiknir are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
Đorđe Vladisavljević was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
A promise honoured at Leiknir
Something was said to Axel Freyr Harðarson and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Nobody at Leiknir will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Leiknir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Đorđe Vladisavljević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Arnór Valur Ágústsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Nobody at Leiknir will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Market11 Jan 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andri Palsson 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andri Sigurdsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Leiknir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Brynjar Hlöðvers was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Dagur Ingi Hammer is on it.
Market11 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Leiknir know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Leiknir
Đorđe Vladisavljević and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout4 Jan 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
Nobody at Leiknir will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market4 Jan 2027
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“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.
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Steady
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Marko Zivkovic: that is not what I was promised
“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.
Squad28 Dec 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Đorđe Vladisavljević 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
Nobody at Leiknir will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Leiknir, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market28 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Róbert Quental Árnason’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Leiknir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Đorđe Vladisavljević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ragnar Bjarnason 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Dagur Ingi Hammer is on it.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Johann Palsson
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leiknir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Leiknir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Đorđe Vladisavljević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marko Zivkovic and Leiknir agree another 3 years.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Johann Palsson damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Đorđe Vladisavljević 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Brynjar Hlöðvers 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 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Nobody at Leiknir 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Róbert Quental Árnason’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Johann Palsson
33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leiknir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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.
Market23 Nov 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.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Johann Palsson damages knee ligaments — 41 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 41 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.
The dugout16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Leiknir
Birnir Breki Burknason and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Đorđe Vladisavljević 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 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rúrik Gunnarsson, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Brynjar Hlöðvers 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Leiknir know it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Nobody at Leiknir 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
Rúrik Gunnarsson 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 dugout9 Nov 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.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Viktor Andri Pétursson has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad2 Nov 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market26 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Đorđe Vladisavljević 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
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 Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson is on it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Leiknir, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
From our football correspondent
Steady
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.
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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Dagur Ingi Hammer has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Leiknir 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.
Market19 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Leiknir know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout19 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Leiknir
Đorđe Vladisavljević 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Emil Smarason 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
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Viktor Andri Pétursson and Leiknir agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Róbert Quental Árnason is the division's best young player this month
At 21 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Leiknir will try very hard not to make too much of it.
The dugout5 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
Market28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Birnir Breki Burknason 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dagur Ingi Hammer. 1‑0 against Keflavik, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Viktor Andri Pétursson, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.93. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Sigurdur Adalsteinsson on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑4 by KR, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market21 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market21 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kári Steinn Hlífarsson 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.
Squad21 Sep 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kári Steinn Hlífarsson, and the manager let it.
Boardroom21 Sep 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Dagur Ingi Hammer has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Leiknir 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
2‑5 to Valur, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match14 Sep 2026
Leiknir sink to position 10
4 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Róbert Quental Árnason, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.33
A mark of 8.33 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
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.
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.
Match12 Sep 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Leiknir and Valur in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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 terraces14 Sep 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ari Bodvarsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Fylkir left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
He is 22 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.24. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Leiknir.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and Leiknir are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sigurdur Adalsteinsson after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Market7 Sep 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Rúrik Gunnarsson is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
At last: Leiknir win one
6 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.
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 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 dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Viktor Andri Pétursson, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Sigurdur Adalsteinsson on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead31 Aug 2026
Fylkir next, and one man in the Leiknir dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match22 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for Leiknir
0‑5 against IA, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match19 Aug 2026
Leiknir out of the cup
Valur ended it 1‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Leiknir's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Leiknir has to find a result from somewhere.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 5 of the 24 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
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.
The dugout24 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Doors closed at Leiknir
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑5 defeat, delivered by Sigurdur Adalsteinsson to a room that had heard them before.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad17 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Ólafur Íshólm Ólafsson: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match12 Aug 2026
Leiknir through in the cup
A 0‑0 win over Stjarnan, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad17 Aug 2026
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leiknir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 11 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Leiknir 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.
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
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Viktor Andri Pétursson 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Leiknir asked and Fylkir said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 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.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom10 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Stjarnan left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stefan Magnusson 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aron Smarason 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stefan Adalsteinsson 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.
Squad10 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.
In brief
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The dugout
Kári Steinn Hlífarsson gets it from the manager
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Squad
7 new faces, and Leiknir are still learning each other
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
12 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Leiknir say no — this time
The offer from IA for Róbert Quental Árnason 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.
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.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Kári Steinn Hlífarsson has agreed terms with KR for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
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.
Transfer targets3 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.
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.