ITV.com IA: Man City filed under Man Utd (and anything under Johnstones Paint Trophy)
<Update>ITVfootball's Twitter account (good one to follow: @itvfootball) messaged me to reveal that "The stories are from a feed which are clearly dropping in the wrong place. It's an issue we're working on to fix".</update>
I'm not sure who does the information architecture at ITV.com.
Man City filed under Man U
But I am sure that this story (among others): 'Man City handed Hamburg Test' should not have this URL:
http://www.itv.com/Sport/Football/News/UEFACup/Generalnews/ManchesterUnited1ZenitStPetersburg2/Man-City-handed-Hamburg-test-505002467.html
as it means ITV has filed Man City stories in a folder called 'Manchester United 1 Zenit StPetersburg 2'.
And World Cup filed under Johnstones Paint Trophy (northern semi)
And this story (among others): 'Joint 2018 World Cup bid a risk' should not have this URL:
http://www.itv.com/Sport/Football/News/Generalnews/ManualStories/JohnstonesPaintnorthernsemi/Joint-2018-World-Cup-bid-a-risk-276599659.html
Surely the World Cup is more important than the Johnstones Paint northern semi?
Brilliant... just brilliant
This has surely got to be some automated process gone wrong?
One of them has got ManualStories in the URL - but not all the mis-URLed ones do. So maybe a mixture of manual cock-up and automatic cock-up. A winning combination!
Got to love automagically generated URLs/META/etc... LOL
Football | News | General news | Manual Stories | Johnstone's Paint northern semi | Joint 2018 World Cup bid 'a risk' - ITV Sport
Nothing like keeping the story/primary keywords 'til the end of the title.
There's actually loads like that: google.co.uk/search?q=itv.com+intitle:Johnsto...
Some are presumably about the northern semi. But most aren't - although who can tell from the titles as they are all truncated long before anything useful!