membership
Back the model
Every number on Touchline is free and stays free. Membership does not buy a better prediction: it buys a short handle, a badge, a member number, a room to argue in, and the warm feeling of keeping the work being made.
The founding rate is £9 a year, held for as long as you stay. It becomes £12 once the founding period closes.
Every account gets the whole model. No card, no trial, no numbers behind a gate.
- The model and all 100,000 simulations
- Live market odds and the receipts
- A profile and username, six characters and up
- Your prediction record, graded honestly
- The match diary and your all-time five
Held at £9 for as long as you stay a member. One payment, cancel any time.
- Everything in free
- Short handles, five characters and under
- Change your handle any time
- The gold member mark
- A member number, yours for good
- The members' room
The model stays free. Membership never gates a number, a simulation or a receipt. If that ever changes, it will not be quietly.
claim your profile
Build it as you go
Pick a name, add a photo and your links, and watch your profile take shape. Claiming is free from six characters up; membership adds the gold badge, a member number, and the short names.
Your profile as a member: the gold mark, a member number, short names.
What you get
A short handle
The names of five characters and under are held back from free claims. Members can take one, first come, first served, and keep it.
Change your handle
Free names are permanent. Members can rename whenever they like, and the record, diary and referrals move with the name.
A member mark
A quiet gold badge on your profile and next to your predictions. Recognition, not noise.
A member number
Sequential, stamped on your profile, never reissued. Founding members hold the low ones forever.
The members' room
An invite to argue the model with the people who actually read it. A WhatsApp group while it is small, more as it grows.
Back the work
The model, the research and the receipts are free and stay free. Membership is what keeps them being made.
the honest bit
Why charge money?
The research, the calibration and the hosting all cost real time and real money. Membership is how the work pays for itself without a single number moving behind a gate. One small project, funded by the people who read it.
Why not show ads?
Because the obvious advertisers here are bookmakers, and Touchline is analysis to argue with, never betting advice. Taking their money would bend the incentives the whole site is built to resist. So: no ads, ever.
Questions
ready when you are
Back the model for £9 a year
The founding rate holds for as long as you stay. £12 a year once the founding period closes.
Membership supports the work; it is not betting advice and does not change the model.