Historical Football Fiction
The Stories Football Tried To Bury
Power, fear, money and betrayal inside the game. Fictional dossiers reconstructed as an archive — invented characters and clubs, recognisable patterns.
Power, fear, money and betrayal inside the game. Fictional dossiers reconstructed as an archive — invented characters and clubs, recognisable patterns.
Every character, club, document and event in the Dark Archive is fictional. The mechanisms — secrecy, money, loyalty turned into leverage — are drawn from patterns that recur throughout football history. The cases are fictional. The patterns are not.
Four drawers. Every file belongs to one.
7 files · four open, three sealed
They only ever saw the match. They never saw the room.
Open Dossier →Nine clubs signed him. Almost none of them needed a striker.
Open Dossier →The board ordered them to lose by one. Their captain scored in the 88th minute.
Open Dossier →They protected him for twelve years. He gave their names to the police.
Open Dossier →They entered as the tournament's highest-scoring team. They left without taking a single shot.
Open Dossier →In 1972 he played for three clubs. All at the same time.
Sealed · in preparationA relegation match with the result written before kickoff.
Sealed · in preparationHe coached the club for eight years. He had signed his dismissal before the first match.
Sealed · in preparationNo files in this drawer yet.
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