You remember the winner. Not the season.
The ninetieth-minute header stays with you for twenty years. So does the downpour, the replacement bus, whoever you dragged along. The year it happened in goes almost immediately. Match Boost is the drawer of ticket stubs, finally in an order you can open.
Every match is one stripe
The season only counts the games you actually watched, so the scarf is yours rather than the club's. Run down it — and when the year is finished, turn it over.
The season, woven
- Matches logged
- 26
- In the ground
- 17
- Pub or sofa
- 9
- Your record
- W12 D6 L8
- Most visited away end
- Halloway Park
- Miles covered
- 1,842
- Best companion
- Dad · 11 games
- The run you'd forget
- Nov — four straight
Hover a stripe
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Twenty-six stripes, one per match. The pale ones are the games you missed — they stay in the record, just thinner.
Every ground you travelled to
Laid out around home, with the distance you covered getting to each one. It grows a single away trip at a time and belongs to nobody but you.
- Halloway Park7 visits · 214 mi
- Kettleby Road4 visits · 96 mi
- Marlow Vale3 visits · 141 mi
- Ashcombe2 visits · 268 mi
- Denton Fields2 visits · 58 mi
- Thurlow End1 visit · 322 mi
Thirty seconds on the way out
Log it while it's warm
Opponent, score, where you watched, one photograph, one line about how it felt — filled in before you reach the car park, while the noise is still ringing. Final whistle not gone yet? Leave the stub half-written and close it at home.
Your record, not theirs
Results only go on the sheet when you were present. Which away end suits your side while you happen to be standing in it, and whether the lucky charm story you keep telling holds up, both stop being theories.
The wall of everything
Tickets, badges, out-of-focus pictures taken from the back row — all pinned to the ground they came from, until a place on a fixture list turns into somewhere you have actually stood.
Nobody follows you here
No account. No feed. No followers. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is published, nothing is sold, and there is no server on the other side of this app. The archive sits on your handset and carries on working with the phone in flight mode on the coach home.
You are never signed up
There is no registration and no profile. The app does not ask for a name, an email address, a date of birth or which club you support in any way it could report onward. Device and advertising identifiers are left alone.
Where the archive sits
Fixtures, scores, photographs, the line you wrote about how it felt, the grounds, the mileage and every figure worked out from them are stored inside the app on your own device.
No second copy exists. Nobody at this end has your season, could produce it, or could lose it.
The map and the miles
A record of where you have been deserves a straight answer, so here it is: the map is built from grounds you enter or pick yourself, and any distance is worked out on the device from those entries. The app does not follow you around, does not log your position in the background and does not keep a trail of where you were on a Saturday.
Whatever the map ends up showing, it exists nowhere except on your phone.
The people you name
Recording who came with you means writing down somebody else's name. Those names belong to them rather than to us, and they never travel: they sit in your archive, unread by anyone, and go when you delete the entry.
Photographs of stubs and stands
Pictures are added through the standard iOS picker, so only the ones you choose are ever handed over and the rest of your library stays out of reach. The copy is pinned beside the match and goes no further.
The sums stay yours
Your win rate when present, the away end you keep returning to, the companion who turns up most, the run you would rather forget — all of it is arithmetic performed on the handset and displayed to you alone. It is a feature, not a report going anywhere. No usage counts, session records or diagnostics are collected.
Passing something on
If you send a season summary or a single match to somebody, iOS's share sheet does it the moment you ask. After that it belongs to whichever app received it and to whoever you sent it to, under their rules rather than this page's.
Nothing borrowed, nothing embedded
No analytics kit, advertising network, crash reporter or tracking beacon has been compiled in. Nothing counts your opens and no partner is waiting at the far end, because there is no far end.
Younger supporters
Plenty of people start going with a parent long before thirteen. Since nothing leaves any device, nothing leaves theirs either, and no record exists on our side for COPPA, the UK Children's code or their equivalents elsewhere to reach.
Clearing it out
Any match, photograph or note can be edited or thrown away inside the app at any moment, and nothing disappears on its own. Removing Match Boost takes twenty seasons with it, permanently, and there is nothing held here to restore.
One thing to keep in mind: with iCloud or computer backups turned on, the archive may sit inside that encrypted backup, which is yours and falls under Apple's terms rather than this policy.
Amendments
If a later release does anything this page does not describe, the page is rewritten before that release goes out and the date above changes with it.
Questions
Put them to itsme@benjaminkeim773.world.
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