Everything you need to know about the site, it's orgins and it's owner.
How did the site come about ?
From July 2002 - August 2007 Andy Sutton was running the Official Website of Grantham Town. It was at this stage he decided to expand the coverage of his 'one club' database to cover multiple clubs.The next two years were spent designing and creating thefootballarchives.com V1.0
About the owner
Andy Sutton was born in 1979 and has followed his hometown club for more than 30 years. Although he longer attends games, he has an extensive programme collection, with over 3400 unique Grantham programmes in his personal collection, which extends to over 125,000 programmes in his entire collection.
Alongside running thefootballarchives.com, Andy works within the IT industry, having worked for such companies as Macfarlane Packaging, The Ministry of Defence, Thomas Cook and BT during an IT career of over 20 years.
Who enters the data ?
We have a team of voluntary Data Admins from around the UK. Although our current focus is English football, we will slowly be expanding the database beyond the current scope of England, Scotland and Wales.If you would like to join the Admin team contact us
here.
Who owns the data ?
As the results are in the public domain as historical facts, NO ONE can claim ownership of the actual data. However, the time taken to compile and present the data does come under ownership and therefore copyright law, copying data en-masse for the purpose of commercial use is breaking copyright law. Those found guilty of doing so, will have action taken against them.
The site has errors !
Whilst attention to detail is paramount in the creation of our site, errors do creep in. If you spot one, it could be for another of reasons, not least a typo, badly sourced information or a deliberate error to catch data scrapers. Re-creation of such errors validate our claims of ownership.
If you spot a data error within our database please contact us
here.
