The starting point
The FA’s August 2016 semi-final account describes London Bees’ Continental Cup campaign and refers to the preceding Chelsea upset. A cup run is a sequence of fixtures. Recalling the most striking win without its place in that sequence can leave the reader with an incomplete impression of what followed.
A useful way to read the evidence
Build one row per round: opponent, competition stage, date, regulation outcome and any deciding procedure that the record supplies. Link each row to its evidence. Avoid transferring a headline’s emotional description into a statistical field. The resulting chronology lets readers appreciate a notable run while still seeing the exact boundaries of the available match records.
Keep in your notes
- Keep one row per round.
- Distinguish rounds and outcomes.
- Link claims to dated records.