# Fan Narrative — Complete Site Content > Fan Narrative is a football fan social listening, alerting and insight tool for content creators, journalists, podcasters, YouTubers, and broadcasters. It's a five-tier ladder — Scout (real-time monitoring and alerts), ITK (everything in Scout plus full taxonomy, player and club monitoring), Hear We Go (everything in ITK plus fully analysed reports — talking points, content ideas and narratives), The Special One (everything in Hear We Go plus news trend alerts, custom report voice and hand-picked X/YouTube sources), and The Boardroom (bespoke fan research for organisations). We monitor fan conversations across Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Discord, BlueSky and forums. Plans start at £5/month. A map of the same site, shorter: https://fannarrative.com/llms.txt --- ## Plans and pricing Every tier includes everything in the tier below it. Prices are per month in GBP. ### Scout — £5/month - Monitor 5 keywords of your choice - Real-time alerts from Reddit — Premier League & football subreddits - Live mentions feed ### ITK — £15/month - Everything in Scout - Every topic, player and club monitored automatically — all 37 covered - Browse & search topics and teams like a tree - 10 of your own keywords ### Hear We Go — £49.99/month - Everything in ITK - Email alerts on any team, player or topic you pick from what we track - Analysed reports — talking points, content ideas, narratives - Read straight from the data, right in your dashboard - The complete picture of the conversation - Commission a custom report — from £149 ### The Special One — £149.99/month - Everything in Hear We Go - News trend alerts — pushed to you as fans start talking - Report voice — draft findings for a fan audience or a boardroom - Name the X accounts & YouTube creators we track for you - 25 of your own keywords - Weekly "state of your fanbase" digest - Custom reports at your member rate — 20% off every commission ### The Boardroom — Custom Built around your organisation. - Everything in The Special One - Instant match reaction — live, built for post-game shows - Comprehensive match reactions in 15–30 mins — every moment captured - Custom reports — 2 a month included, on any question you bring us - Fanbase gauging & predictions - Evidence-grade records — every finding sourced, timestamped and yours to export --- ## Competitions covered - Premier League (live): Every Premier League matchweek is analysed from what fans actually say across Reddit, X, YouTube and forums — the talking points, a team of the week picked on fan approval, fan player ratings for every match, and how sentiment is trending for all 20 clubs. - UEFA Champions League (live): Champions League nights move fan opinion fast. Fan Narrative tracks the reaction to every English club's group-stage and knockout tie — the emotions, the talking points and the player ratings — so you have the fan verdict while the game is still being discussed. - UEFA Europa League (live): Europa League fan reaction, matchweek by matchweek: what supporters made of the selection, the performance and the result for every English side in the competition, tagged by emotion and topic. - UEFA Conference League (live): The Conference League gets the same treatment as the bigger European nights — fan sentiment, talking points and player ratings for every English club's run in the competition, drawn from the whole fanbase rather than the loudest few. - FA Cup (live): From third-round weekend to the final, Fan Narrative captures FA Cup fan reaction across both clubs in every tie — the giant-killings, the rotation debates and the player ratings — so a cup shock is covered as closely as a league game. - Carabao Cup (live): Carabao Cup (EFL Cup / League Cup) fan sentiment for every round — how fans reacted to the team selected, the performance and the result, with player ratings and talking points from the fanbase of each club involved. - EFL Championship (live): Fan sentiment analysis isn't only a top-flight thing. Fan Narrative covers the EFL Championship matchweek by matchweek — talking points, fan player ratings and mood tracking for every club in the division, including the promotion and relegation runs. Planned, prioritised by how often they are requested: - Europe's other big leagues — The same matchweek fan-sentiment coverage — talking points, player ratings and mood tracking — for the leagues fans ask about most. - La Liga (Spain) - Serie A (Italy) - Bundesliga (Germany) - Ligue 1 (France) - Saudi Pro League (Saudi Arabia) - Major League Soccer (USA & Canada) - Formula 1 (Late 2026) — Race-by-race fan sentiment across every team and driver — the strategy calls, the radio messages and the stewards' decisions fans are actually arguing about. - Formula 1 Full detail and a request form: https://fannarrative.com/coverage --- ## Used by Creators and fan media who take Fan Narrative's reports into their own shows, on air: - James Lawrence Allcott (https://www.youtube.com/@JamesLawrenceAllcott) — Football YouTube channel - The Ripple Effect Podcast (https://open.spotify.com/show/3oxaX20iph21oA25UrQLGb) — Football podcast - The Fighting Cock (https://thefightingcock.co.uk/) — Tottenham Hotspur fan media --- ## Pages ### Social Listening Tools URL: https://fannarrative.com/social-listening-tools Professional social listening for football content creators. Monitor fan sentiment across Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and forums. Talking points, narratives and fan reactions delivered in minutes, not hours. Keywords: social listening tools, football social listening, fan sentiment monitoring, social media monitoring football FAQ: **What is social listening for football?** Social listening is the process of monitoring and analysing fan conversations happening across social media platforms like Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, and forums in real time. Fan Narrative automates this with AI trained specifically on football language, delivering structured talking points, fan narratives, emotion breakdowns, and selected fan posts, saving content creators hours of manual research per episode or article. **How is Fan Narrative different from Brandwatch or Meltwater?** Enterprise social listening tools like Brandwatch and Meltwater cost £15,000–50,000+ per year, target marketing teams, and require significant customisation for football use cases. Fan Narrative is purpose-built for football content creators with NLP trained on fan language, self-serve plans from £5/month, and reports designed to give you ready-to-use talking points, not raw data dashboards. **What platforms do you monitor?** We monitor Twitter/X, Reddit (including club-specific subreddits like r/LiverpoolFC, r/Gunners, r/reddevils), YouTube comments, Instagram, Facebook, Discord, BlueSky, and football-specific forums. Our multi-platform approach ensures you get the full picture of fan sentiment, not just one platform's perspective. **What do I actually receive?** A structured report with talking points ranked by volume and intensity, fan narratives forming across the fanbase, positives and negatives tagged to specific topics, selected fan posts that are quotable and representative, 28-emotion breakdowns, and the questions fans are debating. Not raw data. Ready-to-use content for your show, article, or video. **How quickly do I get reports?** Monitoring alerts are real-time on every plan — Scout and ITK push fan mentions the moment they happen. Hear We Go's analysed reports are read straight from the live data in your dashboard, ready whenever you open them, and The Special One pushes a trend alert as a topic starts to move. For live post-match shows, The Boardroom turns around an instant on-air reaction and a comprehensive one within 15–30 minutes. --- ### Sentiment Analysis Tool URL: https://fannarrative.com/sentiment-analysis-tool Go beyond binary sentiment. Our football-specific NLP detects 28 distinct emotions across fan conversations (frustration, pride, sarcasm, hope and more), all tagged to the right topic. Keywords: sentiment analysis tool, football sentiment analysis, fan emotion analysis, NLP football FAQ: **What emotions can Fan Narrative detect?** Fan Narrative detects 28 distinct emotion categories including frustration, hope, sarcasm, pride, despair, anger, amusement, confidence, resignation, disbelief, and more. This goes far beyond the binary positive/negative/neutral classification that generic sentiment tools offer, giving you granular insight into how fans actually feel about specific topics. **How is emotion tagged to topics?** Our NLP identifies the subject of each statement and tags the emotion accordingly. For example, "Defence was all over the place but the new striker looks class" gets frustration tagged to defence and excitement tagged to the striker. Every emotion in every report is linked to its specific topic: manager, tactics, player, ownership, transfers, referee decisions. **Can I track sentiment over time?** Yes. Fan Narrative's narrative tracking feature monitors how fan emotion around specific topics shifts across weeks and months. You can see when sentiment is turning, what's driving the change, and how fast it's moving, giving you data-backed storylines your competitors can't get from scrolling. **What's the difference between this and Twitter polls?** Twitter polls capture binary votes from your followers only. Fan Narrative captures 28 distinct emotions from millions of fans across every platform (Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Discord, forums), filtered for genuine supporters. It's the difference between asking 200 people "yes or no" and understanding what 200,000 people actually feel. --- ### Social Media Sentiment Analysis URL: https://fannarrative.com/social-media-sentiment-analysis Add the fan voice to your football coverage. Real-time sentiment analysis across Twitter, Reddit and YouTube. Talking points, narratives and reactions delivered on deadline. Keywords: social media sentiment analysis, football coverage tools, broadcast research automation, fan reaction analysis FAQ: **How fast can I get a post-match report?** For live post-match shows, The Boardroom delivers an instant on-air fan reaction and a comprehensive match reaction within 15–30 minutes — ready before the post-match press conference ends. On the self-serve plans, Hear We Go's analysed reports are read straight from the live conversation data in your dashboard whenever you open them, and The Special One pushes a trend alert as a story starts to move. Either way, it's faster than a researcher can scroll through one hashtag. **How does this fit a broadcast workflow?** Your producer requests a pre-match brief and post-match reaction. Reports arrive structured with talking points, fan narratives, and quotable posts. Hand it to the presenter and they're prepped. It replaces the manual social media trawl, not the editorial judgement. Phone-in producers know what callers will want to discuss before the lines open. **Can we use the selected fan posts on air?** Yes. All selected fan posts are anonymised and chosen to be representative of genuine fan sentiment, filtered for trolls, bots, and rival fans. Reference them directly on air. "Fans on Reddit were saying..." Bring the authentic fan voice into your coverage with confidence. **How does this complement Opta or StatsBomb data?** Opta gives you what happened on the pitch: xG, pass completion, possession. Fan Narrative gives you what fans think about what happened. Performance data plus fan reaction equals the complete picture. Stats tell you Haaland had 0.8 xG. We tell you fans are debating whether City should play him deeper. **What about smaller broadcasters and independent shows?** That's exactly who we built this for. talkSPORT has a research team. A two-person YouTube show doesn't. Fan Narrative gives independent creators the same fan intelligence that used to require a dedicated research department, starting at £5/month. --- ### Fan Engagement Platform URL: https://fannarrative.com/fan-engagement-platform Stop guessing what fans want. Fan Narrative listens to millions of real fan conversations across social media to reveal the narratives, emotions and topics that matter to your fanbase. Keywords: fan engagement platform, fan sentiment platform, audience insight tool, fanbase analysis FAQ: **How is this different from monitoring mentions?** Monitoring tells you volume. "10,000 mentions this week." Fan Narrative tells you emotion, topic, narrative, and trajectory. Not "10,000 mentions" but "fans are 68% frustrated about ticket pricing, up 23% from last month, with owner-out sentiment doubling since January." That's the difference between counting and understanding. **Do you need access to our social accounts?** No. Fan Narrative monitors public conversations across platforms. We don't need access to your social media accounts, posting permissions, or any integration with your existing tools. We listen to what fans are already saying publicly across Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, forums, and more. **Can we track specific topics or campaigns?** Yes. With The Boardroom, in-depth fan research lets you bring us any question and we'll analyse fan conversation around it. "What do fans think about the new kit pricing?" "How is the stadium expansion being received?" Any topic, any club, analysed across all platforms with 28-emotion granularity. **How does this work for clubs and organisations?** Reports can include fanbase mood tracking, trending topics, specific issue analysis, and fan predictions. Ideal for shaping communications, planning content, understanding supporter sentiment before major decisions, and identifying issues before they escalate into larger PR challenges. --- ### Coverage URL: https://fannarrative.com/coverage Fan Narrative analyses fan sentiment across the Premier League, the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League, the FA Cup, the Carabao Cup and the EFL Championship — with La Liga, Serie A and Formula 1 on the way. See what we cover and request the next sport. Keywords: football fan sentiment coverage, which leagues does fan narrative cover, champions league fan reaction, championship fan sentiment, fa cup fan reaction, formula 1 fan sentiment FAQ: **Which competitions does Fan Narrative cover?** Right now: the Premier League, the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League, the UEFA Conference League, the FA Cup, the Carabao Cup (EFL Cup / League Cup) and the EFL Championship. Every one of those is analysed matchweek by matchweek from real fan conversations across Reddit, X, YouTube and forums — talking points, fan player ratings and sentiment tracking for every club. **Do you cover the Champions League and Europa League?** Yes. Fan Narrative tracks the fan reaction to every English club’s European tie — group stage and knockouts — across the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League, with the same emotion tagging, talking points and player ratings as a league game. **Do you cover the Championship and lower leagues?** The EFL Championship is covered in full today — every club, every matchweek, including the promotion and relegation run-ins. League One, League Two and the National League are not covered yet; if that’s what you need, request it below and it feeds the roadmap. **When are La Liga, Serie A and the other European leagues coming?** La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1, the Saudi Pro League and MLS are all on the roadmap. They’re prioritised by how often they’re requested, so telling us which one you want genuinely moves it up the list. We don’t have public dates for these yet. **Will Fan Narrative cover Formula 1?** Yes — Formula 1 coverage is planned for late 2026: race-by-race fan sentiment across every team and driver, covering the strategy calls, radio messages and stewards’ decisions fans actually argue about. **Can I request a sport or league that isn’t listed?** Yes. Use the form on this page. Every request is logged and counted — the sports and leagues that get asked for most are the ones that get built next, whether that’s another football division, a different country, or a sport we haven’t started on. --- ### Free Trial URL: https://fannarrative.com/free-trial Every Fan Narrative plan starts with a 7-day free trial — Scout, ITK, Hear We Go or The Special One. See real-time mentions, full topic & team monitoring, and analysed reports before you're charged. Keywords: free trial, fan sentiment free trial, social listening trial, football analytics free trial FAQ: **How does the 7-day free trial work?** Pick any plan — Scout, ITK, Hear We Go or The Special One — and your first 7 days are free. A card is required to start the trial, but you won't be charged until day 8, and you get full access to that plan's features from day one, not a limited demo. **Do I need a card to start?** Yes, Stripe collects your card details upfront so the trial can convert automatically, but nothing is charged during the 7 days. Cancel any time before the trial ends from your dashboard and you won't be billed. **What plans can I trial?** Any of the four self-serve plans: Scout at £5/month (real-time keyword alerts from football subreddits), ITK at £15/month (everything in Scout, plus every topic, player and club monitored automatically), Hear We Go at £49.99/month (everything in ITK, plus fully analysed reports and talking points), or The Special One at £149.99/month (everything in Hear We Go, plus proactive trend alerts, a report voice you set, and hand-picked X and YouTube sources). The Boardroom plan is custom-priced for organisations — contact us directly for that one. **Can I cancel anytime?** Yes. Every plan is cancel-anytime with no long-term commitment — cancel during the trial and you're never charged, or cancel later from your dashboard's billing page and you keep access until the end of your current billing period. --- ### Podcaster Tools URL: https://fannarrative.com/football-podcaster-tools Stop spending hours scrolling Twitter for your podcast research. Fan Narrative delivers talking points, fan narratives, ratings, and selected fan posts, ready before you hit record. Keywords: football podcaster tools, podcast research tools, football podcast talking points, fan reaction podcast FAQ: **How does Fan Narrative fit my podcast workflow?** Fan Narrative fits directly into your existing workflow. Open your dashboard after a match and the talking points, narratives, ratings, and selected fan posts are already there, read live from the conversation. Review before recording and your prep is done. No more spending your Sunday evening scrolling through Twitter and Reddit. **Can I get reports for specific clubs?** Yes. Reports can focus on a specific club, a specific match, or a topic like transfers or managerial pressure across the league. Whether you cover one club or the whole Premier League, Fan Narrative delivers structured fan sentiment tailored to your show's focus. **How quickly are reports available after a match?** Hear We Go reports read straight from the live conversation data in your dashboard — the talking points, narratives and quotable posts are there as soon as you open it, and keep updating as fans post. The Special One pushes a trend alert as a story starts to move, and for a live post-match show The Boardroom delivers an instant on-air reaction plus a comprehensive one within 15–30 minutes. **What makes this different from just reading Twitter?** Fan Narrative monitors millions of posts across 6+ platforms, filters out trolls and bots, identifies real supporters, analyses emotion across 28 categories, and delivers structured insight. You'd need 4+ hours to get what we deliver in a single report, and you'd still miss the Reddit threads, YouTube comments, and forum discussions. **Can I use the selected fan posts on my show?** Yes. All selected posts are anonymised and chosen to be representative of genuine fan sentiment. Reference them directly on your podcast. "One fan on Reddit summed it up..." Bring the fan voice into your episode and give your audience something they haven't already read on Twitter. --- ### YouTube Content Ideas URL: https://fannarrative.com/football-youtube-content-ideas Stop guessing what fans want to watch. Fan Narrative analyses millions of fan conversations to surface trending topics, underserved angles, and content ideas that get views. Keywords: football youtube content ideas, youtube football topics, football content creation, fan conversation content FAQ: **How does Fan Narrative help me get more views?** Fan Narrative shows you what fans are actively discussing and debating across 6+ platforms. Content that addresses real fan conversations gets more comments, shares, and watch time than guessing. When you make a video about something fans are already passionate about, they engage, and the algorithm rewards that engagement. **Can I track specific teams or topics?** Yes. Reports focus on any club, any match, or any topic. "What do Man United fans think about the new formation?" "How are Liverpool fans reacting to the transfer window?" Delivered as structured insight with talking points, emotions, and selected fan posts. **How is this different from TubeBuddy or VidIQ?** TubeBuddy and VidIQ analyse search volume and SEO. Fan Narrative analyses conversation and sentiment. TubeBuddy tells you what people search for; we tell you what people are passionate about right now. Use both together: TubeBuddy for discoverability, Fan Narrative for content angles that drive engagement. **Which plan should I be on?** Most YouTubers start on Scout (£5/month) for real-time keyword alerts, or ITK (£15/month) to have every club, player and topic monitored automatically. Hear We Go (£49.99/month) adds the analysed reports — talking points, content ideas and narratives read straight from the data — which is where most channels land. The Special One (£149.99/month) pushes trend alerts as stories move and lets you name the X accounts and YouTube creators we track for you. **Can I use the data in my videos?** Absolutely. "According to an analysis of 50,000 fan posts..." or "When we looked at what fans on Reddit, Twitter and YouTube were saying..." It adds authority and a unique angle to your content that separates you from creators offering opinion without evidence. --- ### Fan Sentiment URL: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment Understand fan sentiment beyond positive and negative. Fan Narrative analyses millions of football fan conversations across Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and forums to reveal what fans truly feel. 28 emotion categories, topic-tagged, filtered for real supporters. Keywords: fan sentiment, fan sentiment analysis, fan sentiment tool, football fan sentiment, sports fan sentiment, fan opinion analysis, fan mood tracker FAQ: **What is fan sentiment analysis?** Fan sentiment analysis is the process of monitoring fan conversations across social media and forums to understand how supporters truly feel about specific topics like managers, players, tactics, transfers, ownership and more. Fan Narrative goes beyond basic positive/negative classification with 28 distinct emotion categories trained on real football language, giving you granular insight into what fans care about and why. **How many emotions can Fan Narrative detect in fan sentiment?** Fan Narrative detects 28 distinct emotion categories including frustration, hope, sarcasm, pride, despair, anger, amusement, confidence, resignation and disbelief. Every emotion is tagged to the specific topic fans are discussing, so you know fans are frustrated about tactics but hopeful about the new signing, not just "60% negative". **Which platforms does fan sentiment analysis cover?** Fan Narrative monitors fan sentiment across Twitter/X, Reddit (including club-specific subreddits), YouTube comments, Instagram, Discord, BlueSky and football-specific forums. This multi-platform approach captures the full picture of fan opinion rather than one platform's algorithmic bias. **How is this different from reading social media myself?** Manual scrolling takes 1-2+ hours per topic and shows you what algorithms surface, not what fans actually think. Fan Narrative analyses millions of posts in minutes, filters out rival fans and bots, tags emotions to specific topics, and delivers structured reports with talking points, narrative analysis and selected fan quotes ready to use. **Can fan sentiment data improve my content?** Absolutely. Content creators using fan sentiment data lead with the topics fans actually care about, not what they guess fans care about. Podcasters get pre-show briefs with the talking points driving the fanbase. YouTubers spot trending debates before they peak. Journalists back up their analysis with data showing what supporters really feel. --- ### Sports Discussions URL: https://fannarrative.com/fan-based-sports-discussions Tap into fan based sports discussions happening across Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Discord and forums. Fan Narrative monitors millions of real fan conversations and delivers structured insights including talking points, narratives, emotion breakdowns and the debates fans care about most. Keywords: fan based sports discussions, sports fan discussions, fan conversations sports, football fan discussions, sports fan opinions, fan debate analysis, fan discussion monitoring FAQ: **What are fan based sports discussions?** Fan based sports discussions are the organic conversations happening across social media, forums and comment sections where supporters share opinions, debate decisions and react to matches in real time. These discussions happen on Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, Discord, Instagram, BlueSky and dedicated football forums, and they reveal what fans truly think, unfiltered by journalists or pundits. **How does Fan Narrative monitor fan discussions?** Fan Narrative uses AI trained specifically on football fan language to monitor millions of posts across every major platform simultaneously. We identify the topics being discussed, detect 28 distinct emotions, filter out bots and rival fans, and deliver structured reports with talking points, fan narratives, emotion breakdowns and selected fan quotes, all within hours. **Why should I care what fans are discussing?** Fan based discussions are the purest signal of what your audience cares about. Content creators who lead with the topics fans are actually debating get more engagement. Clubs that understand fan sentiment make better communication decisions. Journalists who back up their analysis with real fan opinion produce more authoritative coverage. **How is this different from just browsing Twitter or Reddit?** Manually browsing shows you what algorithms surface, not what the majority of fans think. You see the loudest voices, not the most representative. Fan Narrative analyses millions of posts across all platforms, filters for genuine supporters, tags emotions to specific topics, and delivers structured insight in minutes rather than the hours manual research takes. **What sports discussions does Fan Narrative cover?** Fan Narrative specialises in football fan discussions across the Premier League, Champions League, EFL and international football. We monitor fan conversations about every aspect of the game: tactics, transfers, managers, players, ownership, referee decisions, match reactions and emerging narratives across the fanbase. --- ### Scout URL: https://fannarrative.com/scout Know the moment fans start talking. Scout monitors 5 keywords of your choice across Reddit's Premier League and football subreddits, and alerts you in real time. £5/month. Keywords: football social listening, reddit monitoring tool, fan mention alerts, premier league monitoring FAQ: **What does Scout actually monitor?** Scout watches Reddit's Premier League and football subreddits in real time for up to 5 keywords you choose — a player name, a hashtag, your club, a rival, whatever matters to you. The moment a fan mentions one of your terms, it lands in your mentions feed. **Is Scout monitoring only, or do I get reports too?** Scout is the monitoring and alerting layer only — the first step of the ladder. If you also want every topic, player and club watched automatically, upgrade to ITK. If you want fully analysed reports and talking points on top, that's Hear We Go. **How is this different from setting a Reddit search alert myself?** Reddit's own search doesn't cover comments in real time across every football subreddit, and it can't filter out noise. Scout is purpose-built for football conversation — tuned to Premier League and club subreddits specifically, so you see the mentions that matter, not everything. **Can I change my 5 keywords later?** Yes, swap them whenever you like. If you need more than 5, or want every topic, player and club watched automatically, ITK covers that. --- ### ITK URL: https://fannarrative.com/itk ITK stands for "In The Know" — accounts on X and Reddit that claim inside information on transfers, line-ups and injuries before official news. What the term means, how reliable ITKs are, and how Fan Narrative’s ITK plan tracks every rumour and the fan reaction to it across every player and club. £15/month. Keywords: itk meaning football, itk meaning in football, what is itk in football, what does itk mean in football, itk football, in the know football, itk meaning, football taxonomy monitoring, player mention tracking, club social listening, fan keyword tracking FAQ: **What does ITK stand for?** ITK stands for "In The Know". In football it refers to an account — usually on X or Reddit, often anonymous — that claims to have inside information on transfers, team news, injuries or boardroom moves before it is officially confirmed. **What does ITK mean in football?** An ITK is someone who says they have a source inside or close to a club and posts what they are hearing before the news breaks — transfer targets and fees, predicted line-ups, injury latest, contract situations. The term started on club forums and message boards and moved to Twitter/X and club subreddits, where dedicated ITK accounts now post daily. Activity spikes during the summer and January transfer windows. **Are ITK accounts reliable?** A small number are genuinely well connected — established journalists with real club and agent contacts who are careful about what they publish. The majority of anonymous ITK accounts post a high volume of vague or hedged claims, quietly delete the misses and amplify the occasional hit, sometimes for engagement and ad revenue. Look for a named reputation the account can lose, specific claims (player, fee, timeframe) and a willingness to admit when it got one wrong. **What is the difference between an ITK and a journalist?** A journalist publishes under their own name and their outlet’s standards, and is accountable when they get something wrong. Most ITK accounts are anonymous and face no cost for a bad call, which changes how much weight a claim deserves. A few ITKs are journalists; most are not. **Why is the Fan Narrative plan called ITK?** It is a nod to the fan culture around transfer rumours. The plan itself is broader than following one account: it monitors every Premier League player, every club and 37 conversation topics automatically, plus 10 keywords of your own — so you see which rumours fans are actually reacting to, and hear about your club before the group chat does. **How is the ITK plan different from Scout?** Scout covers 5 keywords you choose. ITK includes everything in Scout, plus every topic, player and club monitored automatically — and 10 of your own keywords on top, so you can still track a specific target or saga alongside the full picture. **Do I still get analysed reports with ITK?** ITK is the monitoring layer — full topic, player and club coverage, plus your own keywords. If you also want analysed reports, talking points and content ideas built on top of all of that, Hear We Go is the next step up. --- ### Hear We Go URL: https://fannarrative.com/hear-we-go Everything in ITK, plus fully analysed reports — talking points, content ideas and narratives — read straight from the data in your dashboard. £49.99/month. Keywords: football content ideas, fan talking points, football narrative analysis, sports content research tool FAQ: **What do I get with Hear We Go that ITK doesn't include?** Everything in ITK, plus the analysed layer: talking points, content ideas and narrative analysis built from everything being monitored, delivered straight to your dashboard. **Is this the same as the old reports.fannarrative.com?** It replaces it. Reports now live inside your dashboard and are read straight from the underlying data, rather than a separate site you had to visit for a generated page. **What kind of reports do I get?** Talking points ranked by relevance, content ideas drawn from real fan conversation, narrative analysis of storylines as they form, and selected fan posts you can quote directly — all built on top of the full topic, player and club monitoring already running for you. **Do I still get the monitoring and alerts from Scout and ITK?** Yes. Hear We Go includes everything in Scout and ITK, with the analysed reporting layer on top, not a separate product. --- ### The Special One URL: https://fannarrative.com/the-special-one Everything in Hear We Go, plus news trend alerts pushed to you as fans start talking, a report voice you set, hand-picked X and YouTube sources, 25 keywords and a weekly state-of-your-fanbase digest. £149.99/month. Keywords: football trend alerts, proactive social listening football, custom fan report, x youtube fan monitoring, football fan intelligence tool FAQ: **What does The Special One add over Hear We Go?** Hear We Go gives you the analysed picture when you go looking for it. The Special One pushes it to you: news trend alerts fire as fans start talking, so you hear about a story while it's forming rather than after it's peaked. On top of that you get a report voice you set, hand-picked X and YouTube sources, 25 keywords instead of 10, and a weekly state-of-your-fanbase digest. **What is a "report voice"?** The same findings, drafted the way your audience needs to hear them. Set it to a fan-facing voice for a video script or a newsletter, or a boardroom voice for a stakeholder briefing. The data underneath doesn't change — only the framing. **How is naming my own X and YouTube sources different from the keyword alerts on the lower plans?** On the lower plans, keyword alerts watch the live Reddit conversation. The Special One extends keyword matching to X and YouTube — but only for sources you name: the specific accounts, posts and creators you want watched, like the pundits, rival fan channels and journalists on your beat. The automatic X and YouTube sweep feeds the news and trend signals; it doesn't match individual keywords. **Is this a per-organisation plan like The Boardroom?** No. The Special One is self-serve software for one person — a creator, a journalist, a podcaster, a small comms team. The Boardroom is a bespoke engagement for an organisation: in-depth research on questions you bring us, match-day reaction turnaround, fanbase predictions and sourced records. The Special One is the last step you can buy with a card. **Do I still get everything from the lower tiers?** Yes. The Special One includes Scout's real-time monitoring, ITK's full topic, player and club coverage, and Hear We Go's analysed reports — with the proactive layer added on top, not sold separately. --- ### Fan Engagement for Clubs URL: https://fannarrative.com/fan-engagement-for-clubs Meaningful fan engagement is now a mandatory licence condition. Your Fan Advisory Board is 15 people. Fan Narrative shows you what the whole fanbase thinks — evidence for the FAB and the Annual Fan Consultation Report. Keywords: fan engagement for clubs, football club fan engagement, fan engagement platform for clubs, fan consultation football, fan engagement framework, annual fan consultation report FAQ: **Does Fan Narrative replace our Fan Advisory Board?** No. A Fan Advisory Board is a licence expectation and it does real work no data can — it holds the club to account in the room. Fan Narrative sits underneath it: it tells the FAB, and the board, what the whole fanbase thinks going into each conversation, so the discussion starts from evidence rather than from whichever issue is loudest that week. **Is this the kind of fan engagement the IFR (Independent Football Regulator) is looking for?** The Independent Football Regulator requires clubs to have an effective framework to consult a representative group of fans, and to show that fans’ views were taken into account. Fan Narrative is not that framework on its own — you still need the structured consultation. What it gives you is a defensible read on what your fanbase actually thinks, across the whole support, that you can cite in the Annual Fan Consultation Report. **How is this different from running a fan survey?** Three ways. First, reach: a survey is answered by the fans who open the email — usually a low single-digit percentage, skewed to season-ticket holders and the already-engaged. Second, scope: it only tells you what you thought to ask. Third, and least talked about, framing: the way a question is worded shapes the answer. "How satisfied are you with the value of your season ticket?" and "Are ticket prices too high?" measure different things, and a club writing its own questions ahead of a difficult decision will — often without meaning to — phrase them in the way most likely to return a comfortable number. Fan Narrative reads what fans are already saying about price, unprompted and in their own words, so nobody chose the question. Run both: the survey for specific questions, Fan Narrative for the unprompted picture. **What does Fan Narrative actually deliver to a club?** Fan approval (fAr, 0–10) by category — ownership, ticket prices, recruitment, matchday, heritage and more — read from the whole fan conversation; trend lines showing how each is moving; the talking points and narratives driving each score; and quotable fan posts as evidence. Delivered as a standing dashboard plus reports you can attach to board papers and the Annual Fan Consultation Report. **Which clubs is the mandatory fan engagement condition for?** Every club in the top five tiers of English men’s football — the Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two and the National League. Licences are required from the 2027–28 season. See our explainer on the Independent Football Regulator for the full timeline. **How do we get started?** Tell us your club and what’s coming up — a pricing review, an ownership question, a kit launch, or just the first Annual Fan Consultation Report. We’ll come back with a sample of what your fanbase is saying now and how a rollout would work. --- ### IFR Fan Engagement Rules URL: https://fannarrative.com/independent-football-regulator-fan-engagement IFR fan engagement, explained. What the Independent Football Regulator (IFR) and the Football Governance Act 2025 require clubs to do: the mandatory licence condition, Fan Advisory Boards, the four consultation areas, the Annual Fan Consultation Report, and the timeline. Keywords: IFR fan engagement, IFR fan engagement requirements, independent football regulator, independent football regulator fan engagement, what does IFR stand for football, IFR licence conditions, football regulator, football governance act, football governance act 2025, fan advisory board, FAB football, mandatory fan engagement, annual fan consultation report FAQ: **What does IFR stand for in football?** IFR stands for the Independent Football Regulator, the statutory body created by the Football Governance Act 2025 to oversee the financial sustainability and governance of English men’s football. “IFR fan engagement” refers to the regulator’s mandatory licence condition requiring every licensed club to consult a representative group of fans and show that their views were taken into account. **What are the IFR’s fan engagement requirements?** Five things. Clubs must have an effective framework to regularly meet a representative group of fans — in practice a Fan Advisory Board or recognised supporters’ trust. They must consult that group on four areas: strategic direction, business priorities, operational and matchday issues including ticket prices, and club heritage. They must take fans’ views into account when deciding. They must publish an Annual Fan Consultation Report, approved by a director and submitted to the IFR. And material changes to the crest or home shirt colours need majority fanbase support, while relocating the ground needs IFR approval. **When does the Independent Football Regulator (IFR) come into force?** The IFR was established by the Football Governance Act 2025, passed in September 2025. Its final licensing rules are due in July 2026, the provisional licence window opens on 1 November 2026, and clubs need an operating licence to compete from the 2027–28 season. **Which clubs does the IFR cover?** Every club in the top five tiers of English men’s football: the Premier League, the EFL Championship, League One, League Two and the National League — around 116 clubs. **Is a Fan Advisory Board a legal requirement?** The Act requires clubs to have "an effective framework in place to regularly meet a representative group of fans". It does not name the Fan Advisory Board as the only acceptable structure, but the Premier League already mandates a FAB at every member club, and the IFR and the Football Supporters’ Association both point clubs towards one. In practice, a FAB (or a recognised supporters’ trust) is how most clubs will meet the condition. **What must clubs consult fans on?** Four areas: the club’s strategic direction and objectives; its business priorities; operational and matchday issues, explicitly including ticket prices; and club heritage — the ground, crest, colours and name. Material changes to the crest or home shirt colours require the support of a majority of the club’s fanbase, and relocating the ground requires IFR approval after fan consultation. **What is the Annual Fan Consultation Report?** A public document each licensed club must produce, approved by a director and submitted to the IFR (around mid-August each year), then published online. It has to evidence what fans were consulted on and demonstrate that their views were taken into account in the club’s decisions. **What happens if a club doesn’t comply?** Fan engagement is a mandatory licence condition, so persistent failure to meet it puts the licence at risk — though the IFR has said refusing a licence is "a response of last resort". It also has powers to require information, impose conditions and apply sanctions short of licence removal. **How is this different from the Premier League’s Fan Engagement Standard?** The Premier League’s Fan Engagement Standard is a competition rule that already requires member clubs to run a FAB and publish a Fan Engagement Plan. The IFR’s condition is statutory and applies across all five tiers. For a Premier League club the two overlap heavily; for an EFL or National League club, the IFR condition may be the first binding fan-engagement requirement they face. --- ### Fan Narrative vs Fanalysis URL: https://fannarrative.com/compare/fan-narrative-vs-fanalysis Fanalysis collects player ratings from fans who download its app. Fan Narrative analyses the fan conversation already happening across Reddit, X, YouTube and forums. A full, honest comparison. Keywords: fanalysis vs fan narrative, fan narrative vs fanalysis, fanalysis alternative, fan opinion tool comparison, fanalysis competitor FAQ: **What is the difference between Fan Narrative and Fanalysis?** Fanalysis is a fan app: supporters download it, then rate players, managers and referees and predict scores in a window after each match. Fan Narrative is a listening tool: it reads the fan conversation already happening across Reddit, X, YouTube, Discord and forums, filters it to genuine supporters, and turns it into talking points, sentiment and quotes. Fanalysis asks fans to come to it. Fan Narrative goes to where fans already are. **Is Fan Narrative a Fanalysis alternative?** If your goal is "add real fan opinion to my coverage", yes. Fan Narrative covers every club and topic, needs no app installs, and captures casual and match-going fans as well as the committed ones. It does not give you a branded in-app fan community or official per-player fan ratings the way Fanalysis does, so the two can also be complementary. **Does Fan Narrative have player ratings like Fanalysis?** Fan Narrative surfaces the player verdicts fans are already giving in their own words across social platforms, and scores approval from that. It does not run a structured 1-10 rating form inside an app, which is Fanalysis’s core mechanic. If a formal per-player fan score is what you need, Fanalysis is built for that. **Which platforms does each tool cover?** Fanalysis covers the Premier League, EFL Championship and La Liga, with data collected inside its own app. Fan Narrative covers every club and competition where fans are talking online, across Reddit, X, YouTube, Instagram, Discord, BlueSky and forums. **Both end up on Sky Sports. What actually differs?** Fanalysis says on its site that its ratings are used by Sky Sports and The Athletic. Those ratings come from its app panel — the fans who installed the app and completed the rating form after a match. When that appears in coverage as "the fans", it represents that panel, which in our view skews to the most engaged supporters, and the audience cannot see the sample. Fan Narrative produces comparable fan sentiment from the whole conversation, weighted by how widely a view is held, so a figure shown as the fanbase's view is built from the fanbase. Same destination, different sample. **How much does each cost?** Fanalysis is free for fans to use, with its revenue coming from media partnerships. Fan Narrative is a paid tool for people who work in football media: Scout is £5/month, ITK £15/month, Hear We Go £49.99/month and The Special One £149.99/month. Pricing as of August 2026. --- ### Fanalysis Alternatives URL: https://fannarrative.com/compare/fanalysis-alternatives Looking for an alternative to Fanalysis? The real approaches to capturing fan opinion compared: app-based rating panels, conversation listening, fan surveys and manual research. Keywords: fanalysis alternatives, apps like fanalysis, fanalysis review, fanalysis competitor, fan opinion app alternative FAQ: **What is the best alternative to Fanalysis?** It depends what you are trying to do. If you want to capture the opinion of the whole fanbase on any topic without asking fans to install anything, Fan Narrative is the closest fit — it analyses the conversation fans are already having across social platforms. If you specifically want a structured per-player fan rating from committed supporters, Fanalysis is purpose-built for that and there is no direct like-for-like alternative. **Is there a free alternative to Fanalysis?** Fanalysis itself is free for fans. For people working in football media, reading match threads and YouTube comments manually is the free option, but it does not scale and it cannot tell you whether what you found is representative. Fan Narrative starts at £5/month for Scout. **Can I use Fan Narrative and Fanalysis together?** Yes, and many people would. Fanalysis gives you headline per-player fan ratings; Fan Narrative gives you the wider fan narrative, sentiment and quotes across every topic. They answer different questions. **Why do people look for a Fanalysis alternative?** Usually because they need coverage beyond player ratings, they want opinion from the whole support rather than an app panel, they cover clubs or competitions Fanalysis does not, or they need analysed output — talking points and narratives — rather than raw scores. --- ### Fan Empowerment URL: https://fannarrative.com/fan-empowerment Fan empowerment is not another app to download or a form to fill in. It is the words fans already say — on Reddit, YouTube, Discord and forums — actually counting. How Fan Narrative does it. Keywords: fan empowerment, fan empowerment platform, empowering football fans, giving fans a voice, fan voice platform FAQ: **What does fan empowerment mean?** Fan empowerment means a fanbase’s opinion actually carries weight in how a club is run and how the game is covered. In practice that requires two things: the opinion has to be heard accurately, and it has to reach the people making decisions. Fan Narrative’s take is that fans have already given their opinion — in match threads, replies, comments and forums — so empowerment is about that existing opinion counting, not about asking fans to say it again somewhere new. **Is Fan Narrative a fan empowerment platform?** Yes, in the sense that it makes fan opinion visible and usable to the people who shape coverage and club decisions. It is not a place fans log into. There is no feed, no profile, no rating form. It reads the conversation fans are already having and turns it into something a broadcaster, journalist or club can act on. **How is this different from a fan voting or ratings app?** A voting or ratings app only hears the fans who install it and keep using it — a small, highly engaged slice of a support. Fan Narrative reads every fan talking publicly, which means casual fans, match-going fans and one-off commenters are all represented, not just the app regulars. It also covers every topic fans raise, not a fixed set of questions. **Which fans does Fan Narrative hear?** Any fan posting publicly about their club across Reddit, X, YouTube, Instagram, Discord, BlueSky and football forums. We profile accounts anonymously to separate genuine supporters from rival fans and bots, so the opinion you see reflects real support. **Can clubs use fan empowerment data?** Yes. Clubs use Fan Narrative to understand how their whole support feels about ownership, ticket pricing, recruitment and matchday issues — not just the fans who fill in the official survey or show up to a fan advisory board. --- ### Voices of the Many URL: https://fannarrative.com/voices-of-the-many Fan rating apps and panels hear the small share of supporters motivated enough to sign up. Fan Narrative reads the whole conversation — casual fans, match-going fans, everyone. Why representative fan opinion matters. Keywords: representative fan opinion, whole fanbase sentiment, fan voice football, real fan opinion, unheard fans FAQ: **What is representative fan opinion?** Representative fan opinion reflects the whole fanbase in roughly the proportions it actually exists — casual fans, match-going fans, online fans and everyone in between. It is the opposite of quoting the loudest accounts or the fans engaged enough to join a panel and assuming they speak for everyone. **Why aren’t fan apps, polls and surveys representative?** Two reasons. Self-selection: only a small share of any fanbase will download an app, keep using it, or answer a survey — and that share skews to the most engaged, most online and often most agitated supporters. And framing: a poll or survey only measures what it chose to ask, and the wording of each question steers the answer. Put together, you can get a confident number that does not match how the wider support feels. Reading the unprompted conversation avoids both — nobody opted in, and nobody wrote the question. **How does Fan Narrative get a representative read?** It reads the conversation fans are already having across Reddit, X, YouTube, Discord and forums, rather than asking fans to come to it. That pulls in casual and one-off voices as well as the regulars. It then filters to genuine supporters and weights what it reports by how widely a view is actually held, not by how loudly it was said. **Does the loudest fan opinion still show up?** Yes — but in proportion. If a view is genuinely widespread, it leads. If it is ten furious posts from ten furious people, it is reported as that, not as “the fanbase is in revolt”. Knowing the difference is the point. **Who needs representative fan opinion?** Broadcasters and journalists who do not want to misrepresent a fanbase on air, podcasters and YouTubers who want their take to reflect their audience, and clubs making decisions on ownership, pricing and recruitment that affect every supporter, not just the vocal ones. --- ### Fan Opinions on TV URL: https://fannarrative.com/fan-opinions-on-tv A studio vox-pop is six fans. A phone-in is six callers. Fan Narrative gives broadcast and radio desks sourced fan reaction from the whole fanbase, on deadline. Keywords: fan reaction on tv, fan verdict sky sports, fan sentiment for broadcasters, bbc football fan reaction, real fan opinion broadcast, radio fan reaction FAQ: **How do broadcasters get real fan opinion for coverage?** The usual routes are a studio vox-pop, a fan pundit or ex-player, a social media poll read out on air, or a producer scrolling Twitter before the show. Each captures a handful of voices or a single platform. Fan Narrative gives a broadcast desk a read on the whole fanbase — sentiment, ranked talking points and quotable fan posts — pulled from the conversation already happening across Reddit, X, YouTube, Discord and forums, ready on deadline. **Can Fan Narrative deliver fan reaction fast enough for live TV?** Yes. Fan Narrative monitors continuously, so post-match fan reaction is available within minutes of full time, and pre-show briefs can be pulled whenever the production needs them. It is built for deadline work rather than a report you wait days for. **Is the fan opinion representative or just the loudest posts?** It is reported by how widely a view is actually held, not by how loudly it was said. A genuinely widespread reaction leads; a loud but rare one is labelled as that. This matters on air, where “the fans think X” is a claim about an entire fanbase. See our page on voices of the many for the detail. **Fan-app ratings are already on Sky Sports. How is Fan Narrative different?** Fanalysis states on its site that its data is used by Sky Sports and The Athletic. That data comes from fans who downloaded the Fanalysis app and completed its rating form after a match — a real but self-selected group that, in our view, skews to the most engaged and most online supporters. When that figure is shown on screen under the word "fans", the viewer cannot see the sample behind it. Fan Narrative produces the same kind of figure from the whole fan conversation, weighted by how widely a view is actually held, so the number on air matches the claim being made about the fanbase. **How is this different from a phone-in?** A phone-in hears the callers who get through — a self-selected few, often the most agitated. Fan Narrative reads the whole conversation, so a radio segment can be built on what the fanbase actually thinks while still using strong individual quotes for colour. **Can Fan Narrative be credited on air?** Yes. Broadcasters and radio can attribute fan sentiment figures and quotes to Fan Narrative. Get in touch at hello@fannarrative.com to talk about broadcast use. --- ### For Bookmakers URL: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment-for-bookmakers Team news, injury doubts and momentum shifts surface in fan conversation before they move the price. Fan Narrative gives trading, marketing and PR teams a structured read on what football fans are saying across Reddit, X, YouTube and forums — early. Keywords: fan sentiment for bookmakers, sportsbook social listening, betting brand sentiment analysis, football fan sentiment betting, bookmaker fan insight, sports betting social listening FAQ: **Does Fan Narrative give betting tips or predictions?** No. Fan Narrative analyses what football fans are saying in public conversation — the topics, emotions and narratives forming across Reddit, X, YouTube, Discord and forums. It is a read on sentiment and attention, not a tipping service, a model, or a price feed. What a trading, marketing or PR team does with that read is up to them. **How is this different from a media-monitoring or news-alert tool?** News alerts tell you when an outlet publishes. Fan Narrative tells you what supporters are already discussing — often the injury doubt, the rotation rumour or the "he looked off the pace" thread that circulates for a day before a journalist confirms it. It is the fan layer underneath the news, structured into topics, emotion and how fast a thread is spreading. **Which competitions and clubs are covered?** The Premier League, the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League, the FA Cup, the Carabao Cup and the EFL Championship, with more leagues and Formula 1 on the way. Every club and every player in those competitions is monitored automatically — see the coverage page for the full list. **Can we track sentiment toward our own brand and our sponsorships?** Yes. The same monitoring that follows clubs and players can follow a betting brand, a shirt or sleeve sponsorship, an ambassador, or a specific campaign — so a PR or partnerships team can see how fans are reacting, spot a backlash early, and measure how a sponsored asset is landing with the fanbase. **Is this a real-time feed or a report?** Both, depending on the plan. Scout and ITK give continuous monitoring and alerts on the keywords, clubs and players you choose. Hear We Go and The Special One add analysed reports and news trend alerts pushed as fans start talking. The Boardroom builds a bespoke setup around a specific desk or question. **How does Fan Narrative handle responsible gambling?** Fan Narrative is a fan-conversation analysis tool sold to a range of football organisations, not a gambling product. It reports on aggregate public sentiment. It does not profile individuals for marketing, does not identify vulnerable people, and is not designed to target anyone. Any use of its output must comply with the operator’s own regulatory and advertising obligations. --- ### Ruhndown URL: https://fannarrative.com/ruhndown Ruhndown is Fan Narrative's sister product — an all-in-one writing and planning workspace for football podcasters, YouTubers and journalists. Running orders, live stats, social feed and fan intelligence in one place. Free plan available. Keywords: ruhndown, football podcast rundown, running order software, rundown creator, football content workspace, podcast planning tool FAQ: **What is Ruhndown?** Ruhndown is an all-in-one writing and planning workspace for football creators. You research your angles, build your running order, and see what millions of fans are already talking about, all in one place. It replaces the Google Doc, the Notion board, the stats tab and the six browser tabs you currently keep open while you plan an episode. **How is Ruhndown related to Fan Narrative?** Same team, two products. Fan Narrative is the intelligence layer: it listens to millions of fan conversations across Reddit, X, YouTube and forums and turns them into sentiment, narratives and talking points. Ruhndown is the workspace where you turn that into a show. Ruhndown is built on Fan Narrative’s fan intelligence, so the two are designed to be used together. **Which should I use, Fan Narrative or Ruhndown?** If you want the raw fan intelligence — real-time keyword alerts, full topic and club monitoring, analysed reports you read and interpret yourself — use Fan Narrative. If you want that intelligence already shaped into an episode you can record from, with segments, timings, stats and quotes attached, use Ruhndown. Plenty of creators use both: Fan Narrative to spot the story, Ruhndown to build the show around it. **What does Ruhndown cost?** There is a free plan with one show, one active running order and the core editor — no card needed. Core is £20/month (£17 billed annually) and adds live stats, form, tables and unlimited segments. Pro is £49/month (£41 annually) and unlocks the fan intelligence layer, auto-generated running orders, the social feed and the quote bank. Team is £149/month (£125 annually) for media teams and club departments, with seats, AI write and rewrite, and API access. **Who is Ruhndown for?** Football podcasters, YouTubers, journalists and commentators. Anyone who has to decide what to cover, structure it, and then say it out loud on a deadline. Podcasters get full episode runsheets with fan quotes to read on air, YouTubers get video essay structures and hooks, journalists get research and story angles before they write, and commentators get match notes and live stats in one pre-kickoff panel. **Do I need a Fan Narrative account to use Ruhndown?** No. Ruhndown is a separate product with its own account and its own free plan, so you can start there without a Fan Narrative subscription. The two accounts are independent — subscribing to one does not subscribe you to the other. --- ## Fan sentiment by club (free, updated every matchweek) A page per Premier League club at https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/{club}, showing how that club's own supporters feel this season — fan approval (fAr, 0-10) by topic, which topic draws the most criticism, who is under the most pressure, and how the mood has moved week to week. Sentiment is measured only from posts we identify as coming from that club's supporters, not from neutrals or rival fans. Index of all clubs: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment - Tottenham Hotspur — fAr 3.6: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/tottenham-hotspur - Fulham — fAr 3.6: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/fulham - Manchester United — fAr 3.6: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/manchester-united - Chelsea — fAr 4.0: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/chelsea - Aston Villa — fAr 4.0: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/aston-villa - Crystal Palace — fAr 4.1: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/crystal-palace - Liverpool — fAr 4.2: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/liverpool - AFC Bournemouth — fAr 4.2: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/afc-bournemouth - Sunderland — fAr 4.3: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/sunderland - Ipswich Town — fAr 4.3: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/ipswich-town - Manchester City — fAr 4.4: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/manchester-city - Brentford — fAr 4.5: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/brentford - Coventry City — fAr 4.5: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/coventry-city - Nottingham Forest — fAr 4.5: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/nottingham-forest - Leeds United — fAr 4.6: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/leeds-united - Everton — fAr 4.6: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/everton - Hull City — fAr 4.6: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/hull-city - Brighton & Hove Albion — fAr 4.6: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/brighton-hove-albion - Arsenal — fAr 4.8: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/arsenal - Newcastle United — fAr 4.8: https://fannarrative.com/fan-sentiment/newcastle-united ## The Free Kick (free weekly Premier League newsletter) The Free Kick is our free weekly Premier League roundup, published at https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick. Every issue is built from analysis of millions of real fan conversations rather than pundit opinion: talking points ranked by how hard fans argued about them, a team of the week picked on fan approval (fAr, 0-10), a manager of the week, and per-match pages with fan player ratings and supporter reaction. - [Premier League 2026-27 Matchweek 3 recap](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw3): Matchweek 3 gave us a last-minute Manchester United collapse, a VAR meltdown at Brentford, and Tottenham still without a goal to their name. Liverpool scored twice in nine minutes and then apparently went home early. Ple - [Ipswich Town 0-2 Liverpool — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw3/ipswich-town-vs-liverpool): Isak scores twice in nine minutes as Liverpool win at Ipswich. See how fans rated every player, including Palacios's standout display for the hosts. - [Newcastle United 2-2 AFC Bournemouth — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw3/newcastle-united-vs-afc-bournemouth): Bournemouth twice let a lead slip before Jacob Ramsey's late sub goal salvaged a point at Newcastle. Fans rate the performances and dissect the collapse. - [Nottingham Forest 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw3/nottingham-forest-vs-tottenham-hotspur): A goalless draw at Forest leaves Tottenham still searching for a win. Fans rate Bentancur highly while Mathys Tel takes the brunt of the criticism. - [Manchester City 1-0 Coventry City — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw3/manchester-city-vs-coventry-city): Haaland's goal is enough to see off Coventry, but fans are more focused on Phil Foden's struggles. See the full player ratings and reaction inside. - [Fulham 2-3 Crystal Palace — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw3/fulham-vs-crystal-palace): Fulham had 25 shots to Palace's 10 and still lost 3-2. Fans rate Josh King highly and pile pressure on Arbeloa's system after a stunning stat gap. - [Brighton & Hove Albion 1-1 Leeds United — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw3/brighton-hove-albion-vs-leeds-united): A disallowed Ao Tanaka goal dominates the fallout from this 1-1 draw. See fan ratings for both sides and the officiating storyline that followed. - [Brentford 1-1 Sunderland — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw3/brentford-vs-sunderland): VAR dominated the headlines in this 1-1 draw, with two disallowed goals and a contested penalty. See how fans rated every player amid the chaos. - [Hull City 0-0 Aston Villa — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw3/hull-city-vs-aston-villa): A goalless draw at Hull leaves Villa still without a win. Fans are increasingly focused on Emery's caution as the real story of the match. - [Everton 2-2 Manchester United — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw3/everton-vs-manchester-united): United led late through Sesko before Maitland-Niles equalised in the sixth minute of stoppage time. Fans rate the players and dissect the collapse. - [Arsenal 2-1 Chelsea — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw3/arsenal-vs-chelsea): Arsenal beat Chelsea 2-1 in a match that sparked the week's biggest debate about Arsenal's attacking credentials. See fan ratings and the full talking points. - [Premier League 2026-27 Matchweek 2 recap](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw2): Matchweek 2 gave us goals, chaos, and referees who apparently ruined everyone's Sunday. Manchester City strolled past Crystal Palace, Chelsea somehow survived a seven-goal thriller, and half the country is convinced the - [Crystal Palace 1-4 Manchester City — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw2/crystal-palace-vs-manchester-city): Crystal Palace fell 4-1 to Manchester City as Haaland scored twice. See how fans rated every player, including Tomiyasu's standout display. - [Liverpool 2-2 Nottingham Forest — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw2/liverpool-vs-nottingham-forest): Liverpool drew 2-2 with Nottingham Forest in a game overshadowed by one contentious penalty. See fan ratings, reaction and the full breakdown. - [Coventry City 0-1 Hull City — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw2/coventry-city-vs-hull-city): Coventry lost 1-0 to Hull despite dominating possession, sparking fresh questions over Frank Lampard. Full fan ratings and reaction inside. - [AFC Bournemouth 1-1 Everton — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw2/afc-bournemouth-vs-everton): Bournemouth and Everton shared the points 1-1 in a game dominated by penalty controversy. See how fans rated every player on the pitch. - [Tottenham Hotspur 0-2 Newcastle United — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw2/tottenham-hotspur-vs-newcastle-united): Newcastle beat Tottenham 2-0 as fans debated whether the win proves Eddie Howe had reached his ceiling. Full player ratings and reaction here. - [Sunderland 1-0 Fulham — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw2/sunderland-vs-fulham): Sunderland edged Fulham 1-0 as fans turned on goalkeeper Bernd Leno. See the full ratings breakdown and reaction from both sets of supporters. - [Leeds United 1-1 Brentford — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw2/leeds-united-vs-brentford): Leeds and Brentford drew 1-1 as questions grow over Igor Thiago's form. See how fans rated every player, including standout Mamadou Sangaré. - [Chelsea 4-3 Brighton & Hove Albion — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw2/chelsea-vs-brighton-hove-albion): Chelsea beat Brighton 4-3 in a chaotic seven-goal thriller under Xabi Alonso. See how fans rated every player in a game that split opinion. - [Manchester United 5-2 Ipswich Town — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw2/manchester-united-vs-ipswich-town): Manchester United thrashed Ipswich 5-2 with a Bruno Fernandes hat-trick, but fans still aren't fully convinced by Ruben Amorim's successor. Full ratings inside. - [Aston Villa 0-1 Arsenal — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw2/aston-villa-vs-arsenal): Arsenal beat Aston Villa 1-0 through Bukayo Saka, but fan fury over Kai Havertz's continued selection dominates the reaction. Full ratings here. - [Premier League 2026-27 Matchweek 1 recap](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw1): Opening weekend delivered exactly what you want from it: chaos, a red card inside 40 minutes, and two managers already fielding questions they didn't expect to face in August. Manchester United lost at Hull, Tottenham we - [Arsenal 3-0 Coventry City — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw1/arsenal-vs-coventry-city): Arsenal cruised past Coventry 3-0 with goals from Havertz, Saka and Ødegaard. See how fans rated every player, including a standout display from Amenda. - [Hull City 2-0 Manchester United — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw1/hull-city-vs-manchester-united): Hull City stunned Manchester United 2-0 with goals from Ajayi and Mendy. Fans rate the performances and react to a difficult start for Carrick's side. - [Nottingham Forest 0-1 Leeds United — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw1/nottingham-forest-vs-leeds-united): Leeds United edged Nottingham Forest 1-0 thanks to a late Anton Stach goal. Fans discuss Forest's goalkeeper situation and rate every player. - [Ipswich Town 2-1 Sunderland — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw1/ipswich-town-vs-sunderland): Ipswich Town beat Sunderland 2-1 with goals from Emersonn, Angulo and Clarke. Fans single out O'Nien's struggles in a tough afternoon for Sunderland. - [Everton 2-0 Crystal Palace — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw1/everton-vs-crystal-palace): Everton beat Crystal Palace 2-0 with goals from Dewsbury-Hall and Barry. Fans focus on Ismaila Sarr's shock absence from the Palace squad. - [Brentford 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw1/brentford-vs-tottenham-hotspur): Brentford thrashed Tottenham 3-0 with goals from Lewis-Potter, Janelt and Kayode. Fans question Spurs' summer spending after a chastening defeat. - [Manchester City 2-1 AFC Bournemouth — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw1/manchester-city-vs-afc-bournemouth): Manchester City edged past Bournemouth 2-1 in a game dominated by fan anger at Rico Lewis and Maresca's selection choices. - [Brighton & Hove Albion 4-0 Aston Villa — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw1/brighton-hove-albion-vs-aston-villa): Brighton thrashed ten-man Aston Villa 4-0 after Gomes' red card. Fans rate the performances and discuss the ongoing Ollie Watkins saga. - [Newcastle United 2-2 Liverpool — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw1/newcastle-united-vs-liverpool): Newcastle and Liverpool shared four goals in a 2-2 draw that reignited fan debate over Slot's tactics. See how every player was rated. - [Fulham 2-3 Chelsea — fan player ratings and reaction](https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league/26-27/mw1/fulham-vs-chelsea): Chelsea edged a five-goal thriller at Fulham 3-2. Fans discuss Enzo Fernández being booed by his own supporters and rate every player. Archive of every issue: https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick Competition hub: https://fannarrative.com/the-free-kick/premier-league