World football, read from outside its capitals

The site is organised in three sections. Nights holds the matches that changed what the competition assumed about itself: Cameroon against Argentina in Milan in 1990, Senegal against France in Seoul in 2002, the first World Cup held in Asia, and Morocco's semi-final in 2022. The Arithmetic sets out how the places are actually distributed between six confederations and 211 member associations, and what the expansion to forty-eight teams changes. Leaving follows the movement of players: the academies of Abidjan and Dakar, eligibility and dual nationality, the January fixture argument, and the leagues that have to work anyway.

Fourteen pieces are published. Each one is about something that can be looked up — a named match, a named regulation, a named player's documented record — and the archive lists all of them in one place.