Live scores

Two places in the app show football as it happens: Live under Matches, and Playing now under Tournaments. This page covers what updates, what does not, and where the limits are.

The two views#

• Live — the schedule filtered to matches in play. Same rows, same grouping by country and competition as All Matches, just narrowed to what is happening now.
• Playing now — sits under Tournaments, for following play in progress from the competition side rather than the fixture list.

On All Matches itself you do not need to leave the screen: the status filters run All / Live / Upcoming / FT, with a live count beside them so you can see at a glance whether anything is on.

What changes on a live row#

A row in play behaves slightly differently from a scheduled one:

• The live minute replaces the kick-off time. Where an upcoming fixture shows when it starts, an in-play fixture shows how far into the match it is.
• The score updates continuously while the match is running.
• The status filter counts move with it — a fixture shifts from Upcoming to Live to FT as the afternoon goes on.
• Odds columns keep their normal shape — current price, previous price beneath, and an up or down arrow. Odds refresh on a schedule through the day, so they will not tick in step with the score.

Everything else on the row — teams, short codes, form dots, market chips, the save button — reads exactly as it does elsewhere. Reading a match row covers each element.

The honest limits#

Live data arrives through a provider feed, and feeds are imperfect. Three things happen often enough to be worth knowing about:

1. A short lag. There is always some delay between the pitch, the provider and your screen. The site is not a faster source than the broadcast, and it is not trying to be.
2. A reverted event. A goal can be reported and then withdrawn — a VAR decision, a correction at source. The score on screen can therefore go backwards. That is the feed being corrected, not an error being introduced.
3. A match that stops reporting. Sometimes the feed simply drops a fixture mid-match.

Live scores and your journal#

Do not resolve bets from an in-play score. Wait for the confirmed result, then hit Resolve in the Bets tab as described in tracking your bets. A goal that is later chalked off will correct itself on the site; a wrongly settled bet sits in your journal forever and quietly poisons every number built on it.

If you are recording closing prices as well as the price you took — worth doing, because closing line value tells you far sooner than profit whether your judgement is any good — capture the closing price at kick-off, not during the match. In-play prices are a different market.

If something looks stuck#

Check in this order:

1. Is the timezone right? The top-bar selector controls every clock in the app, including which day a fixture is filed under.
2. Is the status filter set to Live? A quiet screen is often a filter, not a fault.
3. Has the fixture simply been withdrawn because its feed dropped? Give it a few minutes.
4. Still wrong? Troubleshooting lists the known causes of empty and stuck views.