A deeper way to follow football. Before the match, and after the whistle.
Explore the game’s origins, FIFA, six confederations and league milestones in one interactive universe.
Discover the history. Read the evidence. Make a call you can come back to.
Featured scenario · Illustrative fixture and statisticsExplore club origins, defining seasons and the journeys between them.
Six leagues. Free points. A place among fellow supporters.
One question. A new route into football history.
Regional research, shared evidence. Select a desk to explore its role.
A research collection on football’s spread through communities, clubs and generations.
Local pitches and overlooked communities belong in the archive.
One fixture. A story to understand. A judgement to revisit.
Pick first. Examine the evidence. Decide whether it changes your view.
In this invented sample, United average 5.2 shots on target in their last five home matches.
In the same sample, Liverpool average 5.8 in their last five away matches. Opponent strength and line-ups are not included.
These figures are fictional demonstration inputs, not current statistics. Five-match averages are context, not a forecast or proof.
You can change your selection above. Your original call stays recorded.
Try the historical player explorer. Career milestones below are established historical facts; live statistics are not connected.
Upcoming illustrative fixture. Predictions persist locally and can be edited. Production picks lock at kick-off.
Choose a competition and your title pick. Sample club options for this prototype.
Proposed: exact score 5 points; correct result without exact score 2 points; season champion 20 points. Rules must be finalised before a real competition opens.
No money, stakes or prizes in this prototype.The production target is AWS. This private prototype demonstrates the interface and local interactions; it does not provision AWS or connect external accounts.
Budget policy: £100/month maximum total cash spend. Allocate £70 to operations and retain £30 for tax, currency movements and unexpected charges. No paid service may be enabled until its landed cost and usage controls fit this limit. This is a proposed allocation, not a verified supplier quote.
| Category | Monthly allowance | Control |
|---|---|---|
| Football data | £25 ceiling | Trial API-Football direct prepaid plan; no automatic upgrades |
| Hosting, database and bounded live activity | £20 ceiling | Evaluate CloudFront flat-rate; limit origin jobs, connections and writes |
| AI production and translation | £10 ceiling | One daily article; selected language versions; stop at quota |
| £5 ceiling | One weekly digest and capped reminders | |
| Domain renewal provision | £5 ceiling | Reserve monthly; confirm actual annual renewal |
| Social tools and media | £5 ceiling | No paid scheduler; original templates; no paid API without room |
| Tax, exchange-rate and incident reserve | £30 reserved | Not an automatic spending allocation |
| Maximum | £100 | Stop or reduce functionality rather than authorise overspend |
A standard AWS account has no account-wide guaranteed hard spending cap. Alerts can lag. Budget compliance requires prepaid/capped services where available, application admission controls and the willingness to pause dynamic features. Do not launch uncapped usage and call it a £100 guarantee.
| Active first | Prepared, but usage limited | Wait for revenue |
|---|---|---|
| Six-league scores, predictions, season picks, sourced history, responsive design | Selected moderated rooms, polls, seven-language interface, selective translated articles, two approved social channels | Unlimited global chat, full fantasy squad economy, seven-language video at scale, premium photo archive, paid social API expansion |
Start with 60–120 second score refresh during match windows, subject to provider terms and request testing. Community entry can be limited or read-only when capacity is reached. Regional AI desks run on demand for editorial jobs, never as six continuously active services.
Each channel has independent status, retries and a kill switch. Website publication continues if a social integration fails. Platform credentials and permissions are not connected in this prototype.
| Gate | Required evidence |
|---|---|
| Data | Six-league test, historical gaps, storage and redistribution permissions |
| Games | Server-time locks, duplicate prevention, reproducible scoring and corrections |
| Community | Authentication, permissions, reporting, moderator coverage and abuse response |
| Publishing | Sources, rights, translation evaluation, correction propagation |
| Operations | Restore drill, queue recovery, cost limits, alerts and pause controls |