Privacy Notice

This is a small, one-person fan site. It doesn't sell your data. It does show ads to keep the lights on, and some links are affiliate links. Here's exactly what's collected and why.

If you are a kid

This part is for you. There is one site for everyone, so this is true for every visitor:

The games, the cards, the quiz, match bingo and the activity pack have no adverts. A few other pages, like the homepage and the stats, show adverts, and those are never picked from what you do on other websites.
The games, the cards and the quiz never ask for your name, your email or anything typed. They show you as a code such as “Fan 3F9A”.
Some pages link to other websites, and the newsletter box asks for an email address. You never have to use either to play.
Your game scores, cards and the days you come back are saved under a random code in a cookie, so you can keep playing and see your streak. Nobody can see your name, because we never ask for it.

If you are not sure about anything here, show this page to a grown-up you trust.

Return-visit streak

A random, anonymous identifier is stored in a first-party cookie (visitor_id, 1 year expiry) purely to show a "X days in a row" badge on the homepage. It contains no personal information and isn't used for tracking across other sites.

Analytics

The site's own count: page path, referrer, the browser's name (such as Chrome or Safari) and whether it is a phone are logged for basic traffic stats (e.g. which pages are popular). The rest of what your browser says about itself (its version, your device model and operating system) is not stored. No IP addresses or personal identifiers are stored alongside this data. Links the site hands out (the share button, the feeds, the newsletter, the calendar and push notifications) carry a ref marker so we can count which of them bring visits; it names the channel, never a person. To count how many people visit and how many come back, the anonymous visitor_id above is noted once per day in a separate table (the day and the identifier, nothing else), deleted after about six months. Until 24 September 2026 a Kid Mode switch counted its visits apart, as a total for the day; that switch is gone, every visit is counted the same way, and a browser that still carries its two cookies gets them deleted on its next visit. We also count which language each browser asks for first ("nb", "en"), once a day, as a total for that day and language, so we know how many visitors read Norwegian; a lang_day cookie holding just today's date does the once-a-day part, and nothing links the count to a visitor. To learn whether the games are fun and where people stop, a round of Goal Rush says when it reaches its 1st, 3rd, 5th, 10th, 20th, 30th and 40th shot, and the weekly quiz says how many of its questions have been answered as each one is. The dig game's replay after a goal says when it starts and when it is watched to the end, and its level built from a real goal says when it opens and when it is scored. Its kick-off says, once a visit for each, whether the ball was tapped or flicked softly, firmly or hard. Each adds one to a total for that day, game and number (for example "today, 12 Goal Rush rounds reached 3 shots"). Nothing else is sent: no cookie is read or set for it and no identifier is stored beside it.

We also use Google Analytics, on most pages but never on the play pages listed under Advertising or on this page. It sets no cookie and records nothing that identifies you until you accept Google's consent message (the one described under Advertising). Until then your browser sends Google only a cookieless note that a page was viewed: the page, the time, the kind of browser and screen, and a rough location Google works out from your IP address, which it does not keep. If you accept, Google may set the _ga and _ga_* cookies so it can tell a returning visitor from a new one; refusing or later withdrawing consent stops that. It is never used for ads. How Google handles this is described in Google's privacy policy.

Each email carries a tiny image whose address is a one-way code for your subscription and that issue. If your mail app loads images, we learn that the issue was opened, not who opened it or when you read it, and nothing else. Opens are deleted after about six months.

If you subscribe, your email address is stored to send the weekly digest via Resend. You can unsubscribe at any time from the link in any email, or via the unsubscribe page.

Push notifications

If you opt in to browser push notifications, your browser's push subscription endpoint is stored so the site can send you the full-time line after a City match and the Monday review, three notifications a week at most. You can disable this anytime via the bell icon in the navigation — no email or personal data is involved.

Advertising

Ads are served by Google AdSense. This is one site for everyone, children included, so it asks Google for non-personalised ads on every page that shows them: an ad is chosen from the page you are reading and your rough location (your town or region), not from your visits to other sites or a profile of you. Google may still set cookies (such as __gads and __gpi) to limit how often you see the same ad, to count ads and to stop fraud. If you are in the EEA, UK or Switzerland you will be asked for consent before those cookies are used, and you can change that choice at any time via the "Privacy & cookies" link that Google's message adds to the page. The play pages show no ads at all: the games, the cards, the play hub with its quiz and votes, match bingo, the activity pack, this page and the colophon. Ads appear only on a short list of pages with the site's own writing (the homepage, the story, the stats and a few more), and those show the same non-personalised ads to every visitor, whatever their age. You can also manage Google's ad settings at Google Ads Settings. How Google uses data from sites that use its services is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Affiliate links

Some links (for example to buy a shirt) are affiliate links, marked as such. If you buy through one, this site may earn a small commission. The price you pay is unchanged, and no purchase data comes back to this site.

Predictions and ratings

Score predictions and match ratings are stored against the same anonymous visitor_id cookie described above, together with any nickname you pick from our word lists (such as “Swift Header 27”). Nobody types a name. No email or account is involved.

Quiz, goal vote and the Goal Rush game

Quiz answers, goal-of-the-week votes and game scores (Goal Rush, Path to Haaland) are stored against the same anonymous visitor_id cookie. The games are made for everyone, children included: they never ask for a name, email or any typed text, and they show scores under a random code such as “Fan 3F9A”, and the game page carries no advertising. Your personal best is also kept in your own browser's local storage and never leaves the device (see below). These records are deleted after about 13 months. Goal Cards work the same way: your album is a list of card numbers against the anonymous cookie, packs are always free and cannot be bought or traded, and an album nobody has added to for about 13 months is deleted. The printable Activity Pack collects nothing at all. The one-tap mood fans gave after a match until September 2026 is kept the same anonymous way and only ever shown as a crowd percentage; the question after a match is now the 1 to 5 rating described above. Choosing Norsk or English in the menu sets a lang cookie holding just "nb" or "en", and nothing else.

Kept on your device

A few things are remembered in your own browser's local storage, so the site is as you left it next time. They are never sent to us, and clearing your browser's site data deletes them:

your Goal Rush personal best;
the Path to the Striker levels you have cleared (a level built from a real goal, under that goal's card);
the ball's path in your last goal on each of those levels, for its replay;
the squares you ticked on a match bingo card;
whether you chose the light or dark screen, and whether the dig's sound is on.

The menu's old plain-font switch (the open book) is gone, because the pages read well at any zoom. If your browser still remembers that switch, the next page you open deletes it.

Questions

Reach out at [email protected].