‘Fighting with nature’: Iceland’s Grindavík play again after 18-month seismic gap

The volcano near Grindavík caused devastation in November 2023 but miraculously the football pitch survived unscathed.Photograph: Marco di Marco/APIt was about 7pm when UMF Grindavík’s players finished training in the club’s indoor hall. There had been seismic activity in the area all day but, in this harbour town to the south of Iceland’s famous Blue Lagoon, everybody had become wearily used to that. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions had been a discomfiting, men