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Why?

I was looking for an API providing football data and came across www.football-data.org.

Then I looked for a Ruby Gem to use this API and only found some very old, very basic Gems.
As I wanted to use the API for my own Rails project, I decided to provide a more up-to-date and more extensive Gem.

I also wanted to implement multi target API support, so you dont need a seperate gem for every football API.

After successfully releasing the gem football butler in 2021, now comes the follow up sports butler which also supports multi sports-