How we work
An honest map of the pipeline behind every article.
Reading the field
The desk follows a curated set of football publications and tracks what they're each reporting on a given day. When the same story appears in multiple places, that's our cue to look at it more carefully — not to repeat it.
From many reports to one fact
Our editorial process groups related coverage into a single underlying topic — what we call a fact. A fact is the consolidated thing being reported, distinct from the many individual articles that report it. We work from the fact, not from any one source's framing.
Statistics package
Most articles are wrapped in a small package of statistics that, in our judgement, give the story useful texture — fixtures, scorelines, lineups, standings, scoring records. Those numbers come from a dedicated football data partner, kept separate from the editorial reporting itself, so the stats stay accurate to the source-of-truth even when the news framing shifts.
Editorial gate
A topic only becomes an article when we judge it ripe. Most often that means several independent outlets converging on the same story; occasionally it means a single authoritative source — a tier-1 outlet breaking news on its own beat. Below the threshold a topic stays in the queue or is dropped entirely. Composition is assisted by AI under guardrails the desk maintains; what to publish, when, and how is an editorial decision.
If something looks off
We don't claim infallibility. If a fact reads wrong, a name is mis-attributed, or the statistics don't square — tell us. Corrections are a normal part of how the desk runs.