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How do we deal with abandoned matches

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Description

There was a match on `2026-05-17T20:00:00+01:00[Europe/London]` between Nantes & Toulouse (competition `Ligue 1` 620) which was abandoned.

The page for this match is returning 404 currently https://www.theguardian.com/football/match/2026/may/17/nantes-v-toulouse
while the json response is returned: https://www.theguardian.com/football/match/2026/may/17/nantes-v-toulouse.json?dcr (screenshot of the data is attached)

In frontend football data, we had the data when the match was live (started), but after the match was abandoned, we didn't have any more updates. That's because in frontend we always query PA to get the list of fixtures or results for every competition. But if the match is abandoned, PA wouldn't return it in the results response. We need to investigate how we can include updates for these matches into our data.

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