Talk:Scott Carson

Nomination for deletion

For the February 2005 deletion debate, see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Scott Carson. The decision was to keep the article. jni 12:48, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Early career

At which club did Leeds spot him? The article says Workington Reds AND Cleator Moor FC. I don't know which is right. --Slumgum 22:36, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

The official FA website says he was "picked up from local club Cleator Moor Celtic". [1]. The Workington Reds link is referred to on the Leeds United webpage and by the BBC. [2]. What is clear is that Carson started his career playing for Cleator Moor. Average Earthman 11:30, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Overlinking

Before editing the infobox to have a link for every instance of "Liverpool", please see WP:MOS-L.

An article is overlinked if "a link is excessively repeated in the same article; however, duplicating an important link distant from a previous occurrence is appropriate".

cheers, aLii 18:10, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

All clubs in the player infobox should be linked as per WikiProject Football style guide. I also agree with Slumgum; partially linked lists look messy, so it benefits the article to include the link in the infobox. See Wikipedia:Ignore all rules. --Dan1980 19:32, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Or one could choose to agree with this football player infobox style guide. I personally think that linking every instance looks messy, and that having the current one not linked highlights it in a way. I'm not going to revert you again, but I just want to point out that you aren't correct :)

It's something that really needs looking at and sorting definitively. It's no good having three different style guides. aLii 19:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry, i accidentally messed up Carson's stats table (put leeds on again) i cant fix it, very sorry

England career

As Carson never played for England and is not listed on any of the statistics sites as an England international, is it correct to include him in the "England international footballers" category? Daemonic Kangaroo 05:39, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

How about this:

as an argument? The prose of the article talks about it somewhat too. aLii 13:09, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't deny that - my point is that he is the only player included in the category who has never made a single appearance for England. Perhaps in time he'll finally get the chance to put this right! Daemonic Kangaroo 16:58, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Well now he has, against Croatia on November 21st, 2007. Although I still support him taken off as an England international - he let in three goals (two due to horeendous errors, and all due to lack of confidence). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.166.244.101 (talk) 21:42, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

WBA

Sounds like Villa sent him packing, reality is that Liverpool and Villa were poles apart in their valuation of the player. Language used certainly wants attention.Londo06 15:13, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Place of birth

I have changed his place of birth to Whitehaven. This is supported by the following sources:

• Soccerbase [3]
• Liverpoolfc.tv [4]
• Englandstats.com [5]
• 4thegame.com [6]
• Yahoo Sport [7]
• Sky Sports [8]
• FA.com [9]
• Sky Sports football yearbook 2008-2009 p490

Only one source, a local news article,[10] has his birthplace as Cleator Moor. --Jameboy (talk) 16:08, 24 September 2008 (UTC)