The Sports GuruWe Own Our Mistakes
We take accuracy seriously. Every piece on this site is written by a named human and grounded in verified primary sources. But sport moves fast, deadlines are real, and Adrian has learnt the hard way that drinking and writing are not the best bedfellows. Mistakes happen — a mis-attributed quote, the wrong picture on the wrong story, a scoreline mistyped at the end of a long Saturday.
When we get something wrong we say so, here, on a page anyone can find. Not a quiet edit and a hope nobody noticed. If you read something on The Sports Guru that doesn't add up, tell us. We would rather be accurate than quick, and we would rather hold our hands up than pretend.
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- The article URL (or headline)
- What you believe is wrong
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We reply to every correction request within 48 hours. Anything materially inaccurate gets fixed as soon as we have looked at the evidence. Small typos and copy-edits we just put right without logging them here.
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What We Log as a Correction
A correction goes on this page when a piece has been changed for any of these reasons:
- A factual error in a scoreline, statistic, name, date, or quotation
- A quote, action, or claim attributed to the wrong person, club, or organisation
- A material change in how we interpreted an event after new information emerged
- A typo that materially alters the meaning of a sentence
- A picture, widget, infographic or table that doesn't match the article's subject
Each entry lists the date, the article, what was wrong, what is now there instead, and why.
Recent Corrections
Most entries below are picture or structural fixes from our first couple of weeks. Sport articles change fast and our editorial text has not yet needed a factual correction — long may that continue, but when it doesn't, we will tell you.
12 May 2026 — Southampton spying scandal piece: Premier League table on a Championship play-off article
Article: Southampton Spying Scandal: EFL Charges, Middlesbrough Play-off. Issue: a Premier League table appeared mid-article on a piece about a Championship play-off semi-final between Southampton and Middlesbrough. Ad obviously had Premier League promotion in his head. Fix: table removed, and a new "wrong-league gate" added to the publisher so any Championship play-off article auto-strips Premier League markers before injection.
6 May 2026 — Saka / Arsenal Champions League final piece: Premier League table embedded in error
Article: Saka Drives Arsenal to Champions League Final. Issue: Human error, Premier League table shown in European game. Ad was too busy thinking about Premier League fixtures! Fix: table removed. Champions League, Europa League, Conference League and other knockout-tournament pieces will never carry a domestic league table again.
27 April 2026 — Anthony Joshua return fight piece: Tyson Fury image instead of Joshua
Article: Anthony Joshua Returns July 25 in Riyadh as Fury Showdown Looms on the Horizon. Issue: the hero image showed Tyson Fury rather than Anthony Joshua. Human error — the article is about Joshua, so the picture should be too. Fix: swapped to Anthony Joshua throughout.
27 April 2026 — Higgins v O'Sullivan piece: Championship football image on a snooker article
Article: Higgins Fightback Rattles O'Sullivan as 'Class of '92' Clash Goes Down to the Wire. Issue: the article card on the homepage and articles page showed a Championship football image. Human error — a gap in our category configuration meant snooker articles weren't being routed to the right image library. Fix: corrected the card image and closed the gap so all future snooker pieces resolve correctly.
25 April 2026 — League Two review: zone colours not appearing on table rows
Article: League Two Review: MK Dons Seal Promotion as Barnet's Stead Hits Five. Issue: the table legend correctly showed three zones (Automatic promotion, Play-offs, Relegation) but the rows themselves carried no visible colour to indicate which positions belonged to which zone, so a reader could not tell that 1-3 are auto-promotion, 4-7 are play-offs, and 23-24 are relegation. Fix: coloured the rows to match the legend, and verified the zones against BBC Sport's League Two table for the 2025/26 season.
26 April 2026 — Mimi Rhodes Chevron Championship piece: hero changed to a branded Golf image
Article: Mimi Rhodes Impresses on Major Debut as Charley Hull Struggles in Chevron Championship. Issue: the hero was a single-player photograph that didn't read as a Chevron Championship piece at a glance. Fix: swapped to our branded Golf image so the article reads cleanly on cards, social previews and search.
26 April 2026 — Ronnie O'Sullivan Two-Cue Gamble: filed under Golf instead of Snooker
Article: Ronnie O'Sullivan's Two-Cue Gamble Pays Dividends. Issue: a snooker piece sat under Golf because we tagged it wrongly when it first went up. Fix: moved it to Snooker, opened a proper Snooker section on the site, and combed every other article to make sure none were sitting in the wrong place. None were.
26 April 2026 — Istanbul Park F1 article: hero showed F1 boss instead of an F1 image
Article: Istanbul Park to Return to F1 Calendar from 2027. Issue: the article ran with a portrait of Stefano Domenicali (F1 CEO) rather than an image evocative of Formula 1 itself. Fix: swapped to the branded F1 hero so the article reads at a glance as a Formula 1 piece.
25 April 2026 — Premier League tables showing 4 Champions League spots, not 5
Article: Arsenal vs Newcastle (Eze goal) and 15 other Premier League pieces. Issue: our embedded Premier League tables had positions 1-4 as Champions League and 5th as Europa League. England earned a fifth Champions League spot through UEFA's coefficient bonus for 2025-26 and again for 2026-27 - top 5 should be CL, 6th EL, 7th Conference League. Fix: recoloured the zones and refreshed the table on all 16 affected articles. Cross-checked against Sky Sports' coverage.
25 April 2026 — Man City 2-1 Southampton FA Cup semi-final: irrelevant league table
Article: Manchester City 2-1 Southampton (FA Cup semi-final). Issue: the piece ran with a Championship table, which says nothing about a knockout cup tie. Fix: took the table out. Cup matches — FA Cup, EFL Cup, Champions League, Europa League, Conference League, World Cup, Six Nations, Scottish Cup — will never carry a league table again. League standings tell you nothing useful about a knockout.
25 April 2026 — World Cup 2026 rights-groups article: generic football fallback
Article: World Cup 2026: Rights Groups Warn Visitors. Issue: the article ran with a generic football image rather than a World Cup one. Fix: swapped to a dedicated World Cup hero. We now have two World Cup images in the library so multiple pieces on the tournament don't repeat the same picture.
25 April 2026 — Fulham 1-0 Aston Villa match report: wrong team in hero
Article: Fulham 1-0 Aston Villa: Sessegnon Boost European Hopes. Issue: the hero image was Aston Villa, not Fulham, even though Fulham were both the home side and the winners. Fix: swapped to a Fulham image. We have also taken note: in a two-team match report we should default to the home side, or the winners, not the visiting team.
23 April 2026 — Women's Six Nations preview: wrong hero image
Article: Women's Six Nations 2026 Fixtures & Schedule. Issue: a Championship football image ran as the hero on a rugby preview, because the word "Championship" in the body referred to the Women's Six Nations and we picked the wrong meaning. Fix: swapped in a Rugby image. We now only consider images from the article's own sport.
22 April 2026 — Ronnie O'Sullivan piece: football table inserted in error
Article: Ronnie O'Sullivan's Two-Cue Gamble. Issue: a Premier League table appeared on a snooker article. The mention of "Championship" and "title race" in a snooker context tripped us up. Fix: took the table out, and made it a hard rule that football tables only ever go on football pieces.
21 April 2026 — Karren Brady article: generic image replaced with a portrait
Article: Karren Brady Ends 16-Year West Ham Role. Issue: the hero was a generic Premier League graphic rather than a photograph of Baroness Brady. The piece is about her, so the picture should be too. Fix: swapped to a portrait of Brady. Going forward, when an article is clearly about a named person, we use a picture of that person if we can find a properly-licensed one.
21 April 2026 — VAR article: wrong hero (Belgian manager portrait)
Article: Championship Clubs Vote Against Introducing VAR. Issue: the hero image was a portrait of a Belgian football manager rather than anything related to VAR. Fix: replaced with a photograph of a referee consulting the VAR monitor.
20 April 2026 — Leicester relegation preview: wrong table shown
Article: Leicester City on the Brink. Issue: we ran a League One table when the article called for a Championship one - Leicester's current standing tells the relegation story, where they might end up doesn't. Fix: swapped to the Championship table. From now on, if a piece is about where a team currently sits, we show that team's current league, not their possible destination.
We will keep logging material corrections here. If you spot one, drop us a line — we always reply.