Editorial policy
How we decide what to publish, how we check it, and what we do when we get it wrong.
Sourcing
- Every headline on the news page carries the name of the publication that wrote it and a link to it. We add nothing to it and take nothing from it.
- Match facts — scores, line-ups, events, statistics — come from our match data provider. We have one provider, and we would rather say so than imply a second.
Writing
We do not rewrite anyone else’s reporting. What we publish comes from one of two places, and the page always makes clear which.
- Headlines from other publications. The news page is a digest: it shows a headline, the publication’s own short summary and the time, and the link opens at that publication. We do not hold the article, reword it, or present it as ours. If you want to read the story, you read it from the people who reported it.
- Writing from our own match data. Results, line-ups, events, statistics and the records behind them are ours to describe, and anything written from them says so.
What we do not do
- We do not publish transfer rumours or unattributed claims.
- We do not invent quotes.
- We do not reproduce photographs from the publications we link to.
How AI is used
The digest is assembled by software: it reads public feeds, keeps the headline and summary as published, and matches the story to a club by name. Nothing in it is generated. Where we write from our own data, a language model may draft the text from the numbers, and every name, number and date in a draft has to appear in that data or it does not publish. Responsibility for what appears here is ours, not the tool’s.
What is checked, and by what
Nothing here waits for a person to approve it, and we would rather say so than suggest a newsroom that does not exist. What stands in for that is a check no draft gets past: every figure and every name in a piece of our own writing has to appear in the match data it was written from, or the draft is thrown away and the match is tried again later. A number that cannot be traced to the record does not reach the site.
That check is good at what it does and blind to what it does not cover. It cannot tell you that the right fact was chosen, or that a true sentence gives a false impression. For those we rely on being told, which is why the corrections page exists and why every piece carries a way to reach us.
Corrections
If something is wrong we change it and say what changed, with the time of the change. We do not delete a story to make a mistake disappear. Every correction is listed on the corrections page.
Independence and money
This site carries no betting content, odds, tips or bookmaker links. Nobody pays for coverage here, and no club, league or sponsor has any say in what appears.
Telling us about a problem
Contact us with the page, what you think is wrong and, if you have one, a source. Complaints about accuracy are answered.