Cookie Policy

Last updated: 30 October 2026.

Cookies are small files stored on your device. We keep them to a minimum and group them as follows:

Strictly necessary

Needed for the site to work and to remember your choices. These include a preference cookie for your light/dark theme and a record of your cookie consent. They do not track you and are always on.

The same group covers a small amount of browser storage used only to avoid repeating things you have already answered: whether you dismissed, accepted or simply never answered the “add to home screen” offer, how many times it has been shown, and a per-visit page counter that stops it appearing on the first page you open. Together these are what stop the offer being repeated at you: it is shown at most twice a visit and six times in total, then never again. These are read and written on your device only, are never sent anywhere, and hold no identifier. If you follow clubs, the list of the clubs you follow is kept the same way, in this browser only, so the Fixtures page can show their matches first; it is never sent anywhere and you can clear it by unfollowing or by clearing your browser's site data. If you vote in a “Who will win?” poll, this browser also remembers that it voted on that match, so the buttons are not shown again; that note holds no identifier and is never sent anywhere.

Analytics (optional)

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages are useful. Under Google Consent Mode, without your consent it runs in a cookieless mode (no _ga identifier is stored); only after you consent does it set analytics cookies such as _ga. In the EEA, UK and Switzerland this choice is collected by Google's certified consent message.

Advertising (optional)

When advertising is enabled, ad partners (e.g. Google AdSense) may use cookies to serve and measure ads. On first visit you can accept or reject these; we apply Google Consent Mode so that, without consent, ad and analytics storage stays disabled.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or to other websites; Google's advertising cookies let it and its partners serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google's Ads Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors' cookies at www.aboutads.info. More in our Privacy Policy.

Managing cookies

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using the Cookie settings control (also in the banner on first visit), or by clearing cookies in your browser. Blocking strictly-necessary cookies may break parts of the site.