About One Life One Team
One Life One Team is an independent football magazine for supporters. Every week we put together the key matches of the week; our articles explain the rules, rivalries, history and fan culture of the game; and our interactive pages (fan journeys, games and true stories told as tap-through stories) are made for people who never switch clubs.
Our writing and interactive experiences are original. We don't use club or league crests, kits, match footage or official photography, and our AI companion never invents quotes from players or staff.
What you’ll find here
Articles
Our articles are organised in five sections:
- Matches and competitions: The fixtures, tournaments and finals worth knowing about: how competitions work, what is at stake in the big games of the week, and the stories behind famous results. Each piece explains the format and the history, so a match makes sense even if you follow only one club.
- Rules and tactics: How football actually works: the laws of the game, how referees and VAR reach decisions, and the tactical ideas, from pressing to formations, that shape a match, shown with real examples.
- Clubs and legends: The histories of clubs and the players who defined them: how teams were founded, the eras they dominated and the careers people still talk about, with a note where a famous story is more legend than record.
- Fan culture: Life on the terraces and around them: chants, rivalries, traditions and matchday rituals, where these customs came from and how they have changed.
- Transfers and rumours: How the transfer market works, the deals that changed clubs and how to read a rumour: who reports it, what a fee really includes and why most stories never happen. Confirmed moves are kept apart from speculation.
Every week we also publish a round-up edition. Browse everything on the articles page.
Interactive pages
Made by us, free to use and with no sign-up:
- 25 Football Stories So Crazy They Sound Made Up: True football stories, from own goals on purpose to a stolen World Cup found by a dog, checked and told as tap-through stories.
- Freeze Frame: You are the matchday photographer: five moments, one shutter press each. How well timed are you?
- The Terrace: A matchday-style experience for FC Barcelona supporters: questions about your own fandom, trivia, a few friendly arguments and a souvenir to share.
How we make it
Articles are written with the help of AI: Claude, made by Anthropic, researches and drafts each one from pages it opens and reads, and new articles list those pages as their sources. Every new article passes automated checks before it goes live: every listed source was opened, every picture is credited, it is not a near-copy of another of our articles, and it carries an AI note and any trademark notice it needs. No person reads each article before it is published, so we rely on readers to tell us about mistakes, and we correct confirmed ones. Our writers page and editorial policy explain more.
The interactive pages are designed and written by us. Where an AI companion or guide answers, it is labelled as AI, and its answers can contain mistakes.
Independent and unofficial
One Life One Team is unofficial and is not affiliated with any club, league or player. All team and league names are trademarks of their respective owners.
Who runs One Life One Team
One Life One Team is run by Ink Horses, a small studio that builds interactive fan experiences, owned and operated by Picnic Player, a sole proprietorship in Tel Aviv, Israel. Ink Horses also publishes Stars & Spells (fantasy and science fiction), Stories With Pictures (true stories and comics) and Your Daily Science (science and the evidence behind famous claims).
The editor
I'm Noa Lev, the editor of One Life One Team and of the other Ink Horses magazines. I decide what the sections cover, which topics we take on and which sources we accept, and I read every correction that reaches [email protected]. Our articles are drafted with the help of AI and pass automated checks before they go live; when one is wrong, fixing it or taking it down is my call.
Noa Lev is a pen name. It belongs to the small Ink Horses editorial team, owned by Picnic Player in Tel Aviv, not to one person, so there is no photo, degree or biography behind it and we never present it as a person. The name stays the same so you always know who answers for the site.
Noa Lev, Editor · [email protected]
Advertising
One Life One Team is set up to show ads served by Google AdSense. Advertisers do not influence what we write, and we do not publish sponsored articles. Our privacy policy explains how advertising cookies work.
Corrections and contact
Spotted a mistake, or have a question or an idea? Write to [email protected], or see our contact page.