{
  "about": "The Uneven Field corrections log. Operated as append-only from first publication: entries are not edited or deleted after that. A mistake in an entry is fixed by a later entry that says so. Each entry records when the change was made ('changed') and when it was logged ('logged'), in UTC. Each time is either exact ('at'), a window ('after' and 'before') or a date only ('date'), and is never given more precisely than the evidence supports. Scope from 2 October 2026: changes to what a page says or what a tool calculates. Design and presentation changes are not recorded.",
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "C-0001",
      "changed": {
        "date": "2026-10-02",
        "note": "Made before this log existed; the time of day was not recorded."
      },
      "logged": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "page": "/the-ledger-cup/",
      "page_title": "The Ledger Cup",
      "type": "Correction",
      "section": "Glossary, Spend the allowance game, Find the constraint, Final exam",
      "before": "Said the Premier League lowers its own green line to 70%, and its red line to 100%, for clubs in UEFA competitions.",
      "after": "The Premier League green line is 85% of football revenue for every club. Clubs in UEFA competitions must also meet UEFA's separate 70% limit under UEFA's own rules. The Premier League line does not change.",
      "reason": "The earlier wording followed secondary explainers rather than the rulebook. The Premier League Handbook 2026/27, Appendix 2, and the League's own explainer keep the Premier League line at 85%.",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "label": "Premier League: New Premier League financial system explained",
          "url": "https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4467022"
        },
        {
          "label": "How the rules land",
          "url": "/how-the-rules-land/"
        }
      ],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0002",
      "changed": {
        "date": "2026-10-02",
        "note": "Made before this log existed; the time of day was not recorded."
      },
      "logged": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "page": "/the-ledger-cup/",
      "page_title": "The Ledger Cup",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "The City case",
      "before": "Included a section giving a personal view on the strength of each side's arguments in the Manchester City appeal.",
      "after": "Replaced with a neutral section, 'What the appeal will test', which sets out the questions without taking a side.",
      "reason": "The site's standard is impartial reporting. A view on a live appeal does not belong on it.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0003",
      "changed": {
        "date": "2026-10-02",
        "note": "Made before this log existed; the time of day was not recorded."
      },
      "logged": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "page": "/the-ledger-cup/",
      "page_title": "The Ledger Cup",
      "type": "Clarification",
      "section": "Leak lens: connected asset sales",
      "before": "Said stadium sales by Derby County and Sheffield Wednesday to their owners led to EFL disputes and sanctions.",
      "after": "Says those stadium sales became the subject of EFL disciplinary cases, without stating outcomes.",
      "reason": "The earlier wording implied each stadium sale was itself sanctioned, which the page did not support with a source.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0004",
      "changed": {
        "date": "2026-10-02",
        "note": "Made before this log existed; the time of day was not recorded."
      },
      "logged": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "page": "/the-ledger-cup/",
      "page_title": "The Ledger Cup",
      "type": "Clarification",
      "section": "Leak lens: inflated player trades",
      "before": "Said a cluster of English player sales before 30 June 2024 drew criticism, 'though they were legal'.",
      "after": "Says those sales drew public criticism, and that such sales are permitted at fair value.",
      "reason": "The page had no source for a finding that each of those deals was lawful. The rule is stated instead.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0005",
      "changed": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "page": "/the-ledger-cup/",
      "page_title": "The Ledger Cup",
      "type": "Correction",
      "section": "Ethics referee, Leak lens, Timeline, Final exam: Chelsea's FA sanctions",
      "before": "Said an FA appeal board imposed Chelsea's £10m fine. An exam answer said self-reporting and new ownership were why Chelsea received a fine rather than points.",
      "after": "An FA Regulatory Commission imposed the £10m fine and a suspended six-point deduction. The fine was not appealed. On appeal, an Appeal Board replaced the suspended points deduction with a registration ban for two transfer windows, suspended until 30 June 2027. The exam question now asks what was imposed, not why.",
      "reason": "The earlier wording put the fine on the wrong body and gave a reason for the outcome that the cited sources do not state.",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "label": "The FA: Chelsea FC sanctioned for breaches of FA Regulations, 31 July 2026",
          "url": "https://www.thefa.com/news/2026/jul/31/chelsea-sanctioned-31072026"
        }
      ],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0006",
      "changed": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "page": "/the-ledger-cup/",
      "page_title": "The Ledger Cup",
      "type": "Correction",
      "section": "The City case: City's case, as reported",
      "before": "Said City 'point out' that the case began with hacked material and that CAS in 2020 found most of UEFA's allegations not established or time-barred.",
      "after": "Those two points now appear as background, not as arguments made by City.",
      "reason": "The page had no source showing City made those two arguments in this appeal.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0007",
      "changed": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "page": "/the-ledger-cup/",
      "page_title": "The Ledger Cup",
      "type": "Correction",
      "section": "Timeline sort",
      "before": "1991: 'Five clubs drive the Founder Members Agreement.'",
      "after": "1991: 'The Founder Members Agreement is signed (17 July).'",
      "reason": "The five clubs led the breakaway, but the agreement was not theirs alone. The essay gives the signing date.",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "label": "Who Gets to Spend",
          "url": "/who-gets-to-spend/"
        }
      ],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0008",
      "changed": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "page": "/the-ledger-cup/",
      "page_title": "The Ledger Cup",
      "type": "Clarification",
      "section": "Leak lens: how the case began",
      "before": "Said Der Spiegel's November 2018 reporting 'preceded the UEFA and Premier League investigations'.",
      "after": "Says the reporting preceded the UEFA investigation that led to the 2020 ban, and the Premier League's investigation.",
      "reason": "UEFA had examined City's finances before 2018, including the 2014 settlement. The earlier wording could be read as saying UEFA had never investigated before.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0009",
      "changed": {
        "date": "2026-10-02",
        "note": "Made before this log existed; the time of day was not recorded."
      },
      "logged": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "page": "/how-the-rules-land/",
      "page_title": "How the rules land",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Masthead",
      "before": "The site name appeared as visible text beside the logo, duplicating it.",
      "after": "The name is hidden visually and still read out by screen readers.",
      "reason": "A missing style rule. Display only; no content changed.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0010",
      "changed": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:32:42Z"
      },
      "page": "/the-ledger-cup/",
      "page_title": "The Ledger Cup",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Byline, Sources tab, footer",
      "before": "No public record of changes. The byline said facts were checked to 1 October 2026.",
      "after": "Added a 'Changes to this page' list drawn from this log, links to the corrections page and to What the Public Record Can Tell Us. The byline says facts were checked to 2 October 2026, after corrections C-0005 to C-0008.",
      "reason": "So readers can see every change, who raised it and when.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0011",
      "changed": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:25:54Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:28:57Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:32:42Z"
      },
      "page": "/how-the-rules-land/",
      "page_title": "How the rules land",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "End of page, footer",
      "before": "No public record of changes.",
      "after": "Added a 'Changes to this page' list drawn from this log, and a link to the corrections page. The calculation is unchanged.",
      "reason": "So readers can see every change, who raised it and when.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0012",
      "changed": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:42:54Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:43:11Z"
      },
      "page": "/the-ledger-cup/",
      "page_title": "The Ledger Cup",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Status note, The City case, Sources",
      "before": "Said City had until 2 October 2026 to appeal and had said they would.",
      "after": "A dated status note says City state they lodged an appeal at 7pm on 1 October 2026, and that the grounds have not been published. City's own statement and press reports of likely arguments are now labelled separately.",
      "reason": "New facts: the appeal was lodged. Reported arguments are not the filed grounds.",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "label": "Manchester City: Manchester City lodge appeal, 2 October 2026",
          "url": "https://www.mancity.com/news/club/manchester-city-lodge-appeal-63926534"
        }
      ],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0013",
      "changed": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:42:54Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:43:11Z"
      },
      "page": "/the-ledger-cup/",
      "page_title": "The Ledger Cup",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Sources: Chelsea",
      "before": "Cited Insider Sport as the source for Chelsea's FA sanctions.",
      "after": "Cites the FA's own announcement of 31 July 2026, which links the Regulatory Commission's and the Appeal Board's written reasons.",
      "reason": "A primary source is preferable to secondary reporting.",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "label": "The FA: Chelsea FC sanctioned for breaches of FA Regulations, 31 July 2026",
          "url": "https://www.thefa.com/news/2026/jul/31/chelsea-sanctioned-31072026"
        }
      ],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0014",
      "changed": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:42:54Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:43:11Z"
      },
      "page": "/the-ledger-cup/",
      "page_title": "The Ledger Cup",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "The City case: Your verdict",
      "before": "Feedback on two verdicts told readers which argument was 'the strongest point against you'.",
      "after": "Feedback now lists questions to consider without ranking the arguments.",
      "reason": "Ranking live arguments is an assessment the site does not make.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0015",
      "changed": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:42:54Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:43:11Z"
      },
      "page": "/the-ledger-cup/",
      "page_title": "The Ledger Cup",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Byline",
      "before": "Credited the page 'By A Fan'.",
      "after": "Credited 'Published by The Uneven Field'.",
      "reason": "Consistent credit across the site.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0016",
      "changed": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:42:54Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:43:11Z"
      },
      "page": "/how-the-rules-land/",
      "page_title": "How the rules land",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Byline",
      "before": "Credited the page 'By A Fan'.",
      "after": "Credited 'Published by The Uneven Field'.",
      "reason": "Consistent credit across the site.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0017",
      "changed": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:49:19Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:49:19Z"
      },
      "page": "/who-gets-to-spend/",
      "page_title": "Who Gets to Spend",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Publication status box",
      "before": "Status at 1 October 2026 only: City had announced it would challenge the decision; the essay did not state that an appeal had been lodged.",
      "after": "Adds a dated update: City say they lodged an appeal at 7pm on 1 October 2026; the grounds have not been published and no sanction has been decided. The 1 October status and evidence cutoff are kept unchanged.",
      "reason": "New facts after the evidence cutoff.",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "label": "Manchester City: Manchester City lodge appeal, 2 October 2026",
          "url": "https://www.mancity.com/news/club/manchester-city-lodge-appeal-63926534"
        }
      ],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0018",
      "changed": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T16:48:50Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T16:49:20Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:49:19Z"
      },
      "page": "/who-gets-to-spend/",
      "page_title": "Who Gets to Spend",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Byline, status box, footer, page metadata, social sharing image",
      "before": "Credited 'By A Fan' and 'an essay by A Fan'. The status box said 'The author makes no finding…'. The sharing image read 'An essay by A Fan'.",
      "after": "Credited 'Published by The Uneven Field' throughout, including the sharing image. The status box says 'The Uneven Field makes no finding…'.",
      "reason": "Consistent credit across the site, without implying an unidentified individual author.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0019",
      "changed": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:49:19Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T16:49:19Z"
      },
      "page": "/who-gets-to-spend/",
      "page_title": "Who Gets to Spend",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Byline, end of page",
      "before": "The byline gave the evidence cutoff but no publication or update date. No public record of changes.",
      "after": "The byline shows Published 1 October 2026 and Updated 2 October 2026, separately from the evidence cutoff. Added a 'Changes to this essay' list drawn from this log.",
      "reason": "Publication, update and evidence dates describe different things.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0020",
      "changed": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T17:13:48Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T17:14:27Z"
      },
      "page": "/",
      "page_title": "Home",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Articles and tools, Topics, footer, image sizes",
      "before": "'Start here' listed two pieces, Who Gets to Spend and The Ledger Cup, without dates. The logo and lead illustration displayed at full width.",
      "after": "'Articles and tools' lists all four pieces (the essay, What the Public Record Can Tell Us, How the rules land and The Ledger Cup) with publication dates or type. Topics link to the calculator and the new article. Corrections and changes is linked under the list and in the footer. The logo and lead illustration have maximum display sizes, and the illustration loads only when scrolled to.",
      "reason": "Readers could not find the newer pages from the homepage, and the large images pushed the articles below the first screen.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0021",
      "changed": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T17:13:57Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T17:14:27Z"
      },
      "page": "/what-the-public-record-can-tell-us/",
      "page_title": "What the Public Record Can Tell Us",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Page fonts",
      "before": "Embedded five uncompressed font files; the page weighed about 613 KB.",
      "after": "Uses the same compressed fonts as the rest of the site; the page weighs about 240 KB. Text and layout are unchanged.",
      "reason": "Faster loading, especially on mobile.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0022",
      "changed": {
        "after": "2026-10-02T17:13:06Z",
        "before": "2026-10-02T17:13:49Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T17:14:27Z"
      },
      "page": "/",
      "page_title": "Home",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Site files: logo and sharing image",
      "before": "Pages referred to /logo.png and /og-image.jpg, but neither file existed, so some page icons and link previews were missing.",
      "after": "Added both files: the site's pitch logo at 512 pixels, and a sharing image in the same style as the essay's.",
      "reason": "Broken references found while reviewing the live site.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0023",
      "changed": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T17:19:32Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T17:19:33Z"
      },
      "page": "/",
      "page_title": "Home",
      "type": "Clarification",
      "section": "Five questions",
      "before": "Headed 'Five questions the essay keeps apart', with an introduction referring to 'the essay' without naming it.",
      "after": "Headed 'Five questions from Who Gets to Spend', with the essay named and linked in the introduction.",
      "reason": "With more than one article on the site, 'the essay' no longer identified which piece the five questions come from.",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0024",
      "changed": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T17:36:17Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T17:36:17Z"
      },
      "page": "/what-the-public-record-can-tell-us/",
      "page_title": "What the Public Record Can Tell Us",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Whole article",
      "before": "An eight-section article on what Everton’s and Nottingham Forest’s published decisions and Manchester United’s accounts can and cannot show, with eight sources.",
      "after": "Revised and expanded as a paper, subtitled ‘Publication, not preference’, with an abstract and 14 sources. It adds the publication rules behind the uneven record (Richard Masters’ letter to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Handbook Rules B.15 and B.18 for 2026/27 and E.69.2 and E.69.3.1 for 2023/24), Everton’s own £87.1 million calculation and the sequence of its pleaded positions, United’s quarterly exceptional items from its Form 6-K filings, and the published commentary that prompted the examination of United. The conclusion is unchanged: the documents prove uneven publication, not uneven treatment.",
      "reason": "To explain why the record is uneven, using only primary documents, and to state why United was examined. The earlier version is kept unchanged at /what-the-public-record-can-tell-us/v1/.",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "label": "Earlier version",
          "url": "/what-the-public-record-can-tell-us/v1/"
        }
      ],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0025",
      "changed": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T17:36:33Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T17:36:33Z"
      },
      "page": "/",
      "page_title": "Home",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Articles and tools",
      "before": "Described What the Public Record Can Tell Us as ‘Analysis · published 2 October 2026 · about 7 minutes’.",
      "after": "Describes it as ‘Paper · published 2 October 2026, revised the same day · about 9 minutes’.",
      "reason": "To match the revised paper (C-0024).",
      "evidence": [],
      "raised_by": {
        "kind": "The Uneven Field",
        "name": "The Uneven Field"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "C-0026",
      "changed": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T18:23:33Z"
      },
      "logged": {
        "at": "2026-10-02T18:23:47Z"
      },
      "page": "/how-the-rules-land/",
      "page_title": "How the rules land",
      "type": "Update",
      "section": "Whole page",
      "before": "Three side-by-side positions, each with about ten controls, with results shown as bars, card text and a table. The allowance appeared as a fixed input. The page was wider than a phone screen.",
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      "after": "For a contract longer than five years signed before 12 December 2023, the fee is spread over the full contract, as the Handbook’s guidance to Rule A.1.22 allows. The page asks whether the contract predates that date. The Handbook rules the calculator uses are now cited by number, with a link to a public copy of the 2026/27 Handbook.",
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