What Footbo covers
Footbo is an independent football site about clubs, players and competitions. The reference pages tell the long stories: how Manchester United grew out of a railway works team, why Liverpool came into being at Anfield in 1892, how Gianluigi Buffon's career ran from Parma to 176 caps for Italy, and how the Premier League fits 20 clubs into 38 rounds with three relegation places at the bottom.
Around those pages sit shorter, dated articles. Match reviews, previews, transfer stories, cup runs and player portraits each belong to the week they describe, and they are read that way: a title prediction from a spring in 2016 stays a prediction.
How the pages are written
Every page is written in plain, factual language. Dates, scores, fees and records are checked against club records, league and governing-body sources and standard references, and a figure that cannot be traced is left out rather than estimated. Where two sources give different dates, the page names both.
Opinion has a place too, because football without opinion is a fixture list. A match piece can say a manager's position looked untenable or that a signing was overpriced, as long as the argument rests on what happened on the pitch.
Favourite players
Ask supporters who their favourite player is and the answer usually arrives as one line, said as if it settles the matter: "Paul Scholes is my favorite player," says the Manchester United fan who grew up watching him pass from deep. A Liverpool supporter will answer just as quickly with a different name. Footbo's pages are written for both of them, with the facts each side needs to keep the argument going.