User:Cantthinkofagoodname

Going up, going up, going up

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I come from Manchester and mostly edit football articles, having been on here for about a year now. I had a fairly long wikibreak not long ago and realised I'd been spending a bit too much of my spare time on here (and I can't be the only one) so I'm trying to cut down on the amount of time I'm on here. If you leave me a message and it takes a bit longer than you're expecting to get a reply that'll probably be why. I've been an admin since February '06 and will probably get involved in a bit more admin/cleanup stuff over the next month or two.

I was a Manchester United supporter from 1981-2005, going to most matches home and away (including a few outside England) but decided to stop going when Malcolm Glazer took over. I still want United to win when they play, but I now spend my Saturdays watching FC United in the North West Counties League and enjoy it a lot more. I just hope that the 'new' fans who've ruined English football over the last ten years or so don't catch on – you've no idea how much better it is without you :-Þ

I'm strongly opposed to MK Dons and Red Bull's treatment of SV Austria Salzburg – I haven't bought any Red Bull since I heard about it and would urge other football fans not to do so either. If you're an MK Dons fan who didn't go to MK City matches or a Salzburg fan who supported the takeover, I'd really appreciate a message on my talk page saying why, not so I can have a go at you but because I don't understand your point of view at all and would like to hear your opinions.

Ego section

Countries I've lived in

Countries I've been to

Articles I've created

Busby Babes | Les Sealey | Danny Wallace (footballer) | Clive Allen | Manchester United pre-1945 | Manchester United 1945-1969 | Manchester United 1969-1986 | Manchester United 1986-1999 | Manchester United 1999-present | Martin Edwards | Julian Gardner | Gigg Lane | Leek CSOB F.C. | Karl Marginson | Eccleshall F.C. | Template:Manchester United | Padiham F.C. | Template:Footnote3text | Template:NWCFL | Flixton F.C. | Ashton Town A.F.C. | Manchester Football League | Les Ulis | New Mills A.F.C. | Castleton Gabriels F.C.

Other articles I've made significant contributions to

Denis Law | Manchester United F.C. | F.C. United of Manchester | Alex Ferguson | Norman Whiteside | Malcolm Glazer takeover of Manchester United | Stretford End | Mikhail Tal | David Beckham | Orsay | Arsenal F.C | Garrincha | Brazil national football team | Zico | Manchester | Doyle Brunson | Timeline of football (soccer) | FC St. Pauli | Paul Hunter | Chip Reese | Pelé

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• Citation templates
• Wikipedia:Unusual articles
• User:Sjorford/Football
• Wikipedia:Blocking policy
• Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
• Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost
• Football-related recent changes
• edit counter
• User:Humanbot
• Football portal
• 3753 Cruithne
• WP:GO
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
• NPOV cartoon

To do list

Some pages I might get round to working on sooner or later. Probably later, so if you'd like to make any of these changes feel free.

High priority

• Offside rule - surprisingly good, maybe get to FA?
• David Beckham
• AFC Wimbledon
• Supporters Direct
• Garrincha
• Malcolm Glazer takeover of Manchester United
• Mikhail Tal
• Duncan Edwards
• Munich air disaster - copy some of the text from Bobby Charlton
• Translate some content from the French page "Munich 1958" and merge it into the English one.
• Sporting Bengal, Senrab, Wallsend Boys Club

Medium priority

• Teddy Sheringham - bit of cleanup needed
• Eric Cantona - there's a lot that can be added
• Pele and Ronaldo deserve longer pages.
• Bez
• Ralphie
• Jack Robson/John Bentley - check dates
• RvN's page needs updating
• Utd managers' pages, esp. SMB
• Osvaldo Ardiles - playing career needs a lot added

Low priority

• Brazil national football team - too short, would be interesting to research
• Tony Lloyd - mention support for NFS
• Martin Buchan
• Mark Hughes
• Copyedit Paul Scholes
• Michael Knighton
• Bobby Charlton
• Jimmy Murphy
• Alan Davies (footballer)
• Andrei Kanchelskis
• Brian Kidd
• Pal Benko - maybe some other GMs as well?
• Striker

Subpages

/footballwelcome /intro /Template:History of Manchester United