This log records changes that materially affect the archive’s evidence, authorship, licensing, interpretation or public structure. Minor typography and spacing changes are not listed.
· Edwin van der Sar added to the player archive
Published a new 1,200-word profile covering Van der Sar's 266 United appearances, four league titles, record clean-sheet sequence and decisive save in the 2008 Champions League final.
Added the goalkeeper to the chronological player timeline, the all-time XI builder, daily quiz dataset, on-site search and external discovery files.
Reconciled all-competition United figures with the separately scoped Premier League career record and cited official Manchester United, Premier League and UEFA sources.
· All 48 player biographies completed
Expanded the final 18 profiles—Alex Stepney, Bill Foulkes, Billy Meredith, Brian Kidd, Charlie Roberts, David Pegg, Denis Irwin, Dennis Viollet, Harry Gregg, Jack Rowley, Johnny Carey, Norman Whiteside, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Paddy Crerand, Sammy McIlroy, Sandy Turnbull, Steve Bruce and Tommy Taylor—to at least 800 editorial words.
Added individual treatments of player-union history, wartime service, Munich survival and remembrance, tactical roles, injury, management and life after football, supported by club, competition, association, museum and public-record sources.
All 48 selected player articles now pass the archive's depth and sourcing quality gate and are included in the external discovery files.
· George Best biography expansion
Expanded the George Best profile with original, source-backed sections on early football celebrity, his relationships with Miss World winners Marjorie Wallace and Mary Stävin, alcohol dependence and later health.
Added a guide to Best's autobiographical books and final football memoir, using publisher and National Library of Ireland catalogue records.
Reframed the private-life material to distinguish documented biography from the sensational shorthand used in much contemporary coverage.
· Player profile publication standard
Restored all 48 standalone player records to the reader-facing directory and on-site search.
Published an explicit player-profile quality gate covering original analysis, editorial depth, authoritative sources, statistical definitions and trust links.
Included 20 developed profiles in the external index and marked 28 profiles awaiting full expansion noindex,follow while their evidence and analysis are strengthened.
Repositioned the homepage around evidence-led research questions and connected archive records, and added the AdSense ownership meta tag matching the published ads.txt account.
Regenerated the sitemap and IndexNow payload with 53 indexable canonical URLs.
· Focused review surface and Stories guide
Expanded the Stories collection with an editorial guide explaining its question-led structure, evidence trail and connected reading paths.
Kept short season records, comparison/data tools and operational pages available through navigation and on-site search while marking them noindex,follow for external search review.
Regenerated the sitemap and IndexNow payload from the indexable canonical set. The crawler remains allowed to read page-level indexing directives.
· Glazer ownership history
Added a detailed takeover, debt and supporter-protest feature, with contemporary funding reports, supporter accounts and company filings. Includes a dated June 2025 financial snapshot, distinctions between interest, principal and dividends, and context on the INEOS transaction. Linked from the homepage, timeline and post-Ferguson feature; included in archive search.
· Historical corrections and research access
Corrected the Records Lab: 1947–48 and 1967–68 were cup-winning seasons with second-place league finishes, not league-title seasons. Added league finishes to the table and downloadable data. The calculated rates are unchanged.
Added direct homepage links to all six research features and the Records Lab.
Revised the six original research features with specific historical evidence and clearer distinctions between interpretation and recorded outcomes.
Replaced repeated conclusions in season essays with shorter accounts, and revised the 1998–99 analysis around the two finals. Corrected the 1907–08 page’s distinction between the 1902 renaming and 1906 promotion. Removed a mismatched statistical paragraph from the 1967–68 essay and clarified that 1957–58 totals span both sides of the Munich disaster.
· Authorship and research edition
Identified John Williams as the author, researcher, fact-checker and editor responsible for the archive.
Added six source-led research features covering the 1931 rescue, Old Trafford’s 1910 move, the 1948 FA Cup, the 1968 European Cup, the 1992–93 title and the 1998–99 Treble.
Added a crawlable Records Lab with transparent calculations and downloadable JSON inputs.
Removed the automated third-party news feed pending documented reuse rights and sufficient original editorial value.
Changed the archive monogram from “MUFC” to the original “UH” mark and retained the unofficial-site disclaimer.
Expanded the public asset register and aligned it with the repository’s licence record.
· Research-feature edition
Published six original research features on institutional change, stadium reconstruction, youth development, title-era concentration, managerial succession and European history.
Added page-specific sources, calculation labels, review dates and related-reading routes.
Expanded the About and Methodology pages to explain source hierarchy and the distinction between fact, calculation and interpretation.
· Archive quality review
Added source and definition panels to season, manager, player and honour archive pages.
Published the corrections route, public asset register and fuller advertising/privacy disclosures.
Updated manager and season records through the completed 2025–26 campaign.
What is logged
A future entry should identify the affected page, the nature of the change, the evidence reviewed and whether the update alters a conclusion or only clarifies wording. A factual correction should also be handled through the corrections process.