About WittyFutty

The archive

Between 2016 and 2022 WittyFutty published short posts about the moments football produces every weekend: the overreactions, the mistimed step-overs, the goalkeepers who score, the quotes that arrive at eleven at night and run for a week.

The site fell into disrepair. Old addresses stopped resolving to their pages, the publishing system failed, and pages that other sites had linked to for years were serving the homepage instead. The current archive restores those addresses one at a time, using recovered captures, and says openly when a page could only be partly recovered.

Pitch & Grounds

The second section is new. It exists because the practical side of grassroots football is badly served: the numbers are scattered across handbooks, the arithmetic gets done on the back of an envelope, and most of what is published online is either a sales page or a restatement of the Laws with the details wrong.

The tools are free, they run in your browser, and they show their working. Where a figure comes from IFAB or The FA it is cited and linked. Where a figure is our own planning default, it says so.

Editorial and media policy

• WittyFutty does not own, host or license match footage, and does not claim to.
• New playable media is accepted only from a reviewed official club, league, federation or rights-holder channel, through the platform's own click-to-load player.
• WittyFutty does not download, hotlink or locally store third-party videos, GIFs, thumbnails or frames.
• Archive pages link to the original post or clip on the platform that published it, with attribution.
• Where an original source has been removed, the page says so. We do not substitute a copy from elsewhere, because the rights position of those copies is unknown.
• Recovered write-ups are republished as they were written, not rewritten into the present tense or updated with hindsight.
• Where an original post quoted another publisher at length, the restoration keeps a short attributed extract and points readers at the original.
• There are no invented authors, no invented biographies, no invented statistics and no invented testimonials anywhere on this site.

What WittyFutty is not

WittyFutty is not a club, a league, a governing body, a betting site or an official partner of any organisation cited or linked from these pages. Links to IFAB, The FA and other organisations are ordinary citations and imply no relationship in either direction.

Brand marks

The WF badge used across the site is WittyFutty's own mark, recovered from the site's own historical assets. The two banners below are earlier WittyFutty headers, kept here as historical artifacts rather than as current branding.