Editorial standards
The rules the desk works to. They are published because a standard nobody can read is not a standard.
Facts before framing
A report opens with what is known: the result, the decision, the announcement, the number. Interpretation, where it appears at all, comes after and is marked as such.
Numbers are taken from our own licensed record rather than lifted from another outlet’s article, so that an error in one publication does not propagate through ours.
Attribution
Every report names the publications whose work it draws on, with links, directly beneath the text. This is not a formality: it is how a reader checks us.
We do not present another newsroom’s exclusive as our own discovery, and we do not strip a story of its origin to make it look self-sourced.
Language
The English, French and Arabic editions are held to the same standard. A translation that reads as machine output is rejected and rewritten rather than published to fill a slot.
Arabic headlines are written in Arabic — competition names, organisations and titles are rendered in the script, not left in Latin characters.
Independence
Nothing on this site is paid placement. No club, federation, agent or sponsor has any say in what is covered or how.
If that ever changes — if sponsored material appears — it will be labelled unmistakably, on the item itself.