[Kudos]

Handling double digit scores is something that you don't need to worry about in football. Not unless it was Brazil versus a local pub team.

LTR implies ranking also, but anyone who has watched a few games of football (other than in the world cup) knows that it actually signifies which teams are home and away.

[teamhappy]

LTR doesn't imply ranking because we read from left to right (IMHO). Google for ranking and try to find an example that doesn't use top down (Google itself is a good example). FYI, the highest score in a football match is 149:0 (happened in 2002: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_Adema_%E2%80%93_SO_l%27Emyr...)

And even during a world cup double-digits can be reached quite easily when the game is decided by penalty shootout.

The whole point of a layout is to be flexible.

[Kudos]

> LTR doesn't imply ranking because we read from left to right (IMHO).

When we name our company you won't mind if we put my name first then.

> FYI, the highest score in a football match is 149:0

I don't think non-televised protest matches matter. The EPL (probably the most watched league in the world) has literally never produced a double digit scoring match (that's approx. 7980 matches).

> And even during a world cup double-digits can be reached quite easily when the game is decided by penalty shootout.

You're not arguing from knowledge at all, you're just googling shit to be contrary. You don't add the goals from the penalty shootout to the total, they are a separate scoreline.

[teamhappy]

> When we name our company you won't mind if we put my name first then.

That's an old problem really. Somebody has to go first. Home team over away team, alphabetical order, etc. I think we've solved that problem.

Of course 149:0 isn't representative. Just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean it won't though. The point is you do have to worry about edge cases. Take the ball possession graphic for example: Picture what that might look like for a color blind person. Not all that helpful.

I know they currently keep two different score boards but I'm not sure that has to be that way (could be though - I don't know). The site I use to check the scores merges them after the game but the FIFA website doesn't.

I'm not trying to be contrary btw, and I'm not sure why you're offended. I said I really like the design, but I do think they removed a lot of flexibility and clarity for no reason by changing most of the layout without putting all that much thought into why things look the way the currently look.

I may not know a lot about football but I do know a lot about design. I didn't even talk about the clock which looks gorgeous but (as others already pointed out) doesn't work that well.

[Kudos]

You don't have to design around the 0% case, so long as you functionally handle it as this design does.

Incidentally, I'm pretty sure I've seen one of the Spanish stations use the vertical score format, a quick search turns up this (Barcelona vs Real Madrid) [1].

> I know they currently keep two different score boards but I'm not sure that has to be that way

It does have to be, because goals are infrequent it's unfair to add 3 or more goals to a teams tally, the goals can be used to differentiate between teams with the same points in league systems. There's also essentially no limit to the number of penalties that can be taken.

I'm not arguing for this design (though I do like some aspects of it), I'm just defending it against what I see as illegitimate criticism.

[1] http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/120/Purple/da/d0/4c/mzl.wlqf...