FootballNews has been around for 26 years. Over this time it has undergone many changes as both technology and the football environment has changed. It started out as Soccernews in 1998 as shown below.
It then evolved to FootballNews with v2 including significant data capabilities. This was a time when football was battling to get any any coverage by the mainstream media and the official football bodies had yet to develop any data driven functionality.
However FootballNews v2 required significant resources to manage and update the data functionality. As the the official football bodies upgraded their websites to include data functions and the increased focus on social and video media, the data functionality was retired and a simpler FootballNews v3 was released.
We are now releasing FootballNews V4. To the user, this is a minor update with various bits of functionality cleaned up. However there are some major updates to the underlying platform which will improve performance, simplify maintenance and improve the ability to roll out new features.