Talk:Linfield F.C.

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Contents 1 Successfulness 2 Organisation 3 Jackie Milburn 4 Linfield 5 Biggest club in Ireland? 6 Auto peer review suggestions 7 Delisted GA 8 Capacity 9 Fair use rationale for Image:Linfieldfc.gif 10 Only team never to lose an F A cup tie 11 "Clean sweep"

[edit] Successfulness

If you do a simple search on Glasgow Rangers FC, we are told that they are the world's most successful football club, and that they are the first club to reach the milestone of 200 trophies. I would in fact, beg to differ. Linfield FC are the first club to break both barries, and as such are the world's most successful rather than Rangers. Regardless of the trophies won, or the league both teams play in - Linfield are more successful. You could argue if you take the approach of standard, that rangers are certain at least a trophy a season, as it always has been with either Celtic or themselves dominating. Also, if Linfield's trophy haul is overlooked in this matter, then why does it mention us as tie holders in the "domestic double" record with (as it happens) Rangers? Davie74 17:47, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Rangers are the worlds most successful football club. They have won over 270 trophies in all competitions. check out the honours page here rangershistory.co.uk Robrangershistory 12:59, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

linfield are infact the most sucessful team in the world with 210 FIFA recognized trophies rangers have approx. 198 would you like to add the other trophies that rangers have won and how many times they've won it, also why has no-on else stated this point. IT'S OBVIOUSLY A LIE!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.188.175 (talk) 12:43, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Organisation

Can I suggest tha the article be re-organised a little bit?

How about a history section, fully detailing Linfield's past and incorporating the euro games as a subsection. Then have another section on Linfield's more rectn fortunes?

Jdorney 09:29, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I see this had been done already, but someone had vandalised it.

I think the main Linfield article needs to be shortened down somewhat with most of the information befeed out to other Linfield FC pages. ifcp1 09:29, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jackie Milburn

There's some information missing on the Jackie Milburn page, in particular how many games he played for Linfield and the exact number of goals he scored. If anyone has the info to hand it'd be great if you could add it. Thanks --Daduzi ^talk 03:17, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Linfield

Be fair! If you're going to record an attack on Linfield supporters by Nationalists, you should also mention the strong anti-Catholic element associated with Linfield - can't have one without the other! Better still, simply remove the comment, because it has nothing to do with football.

i have redone the sectarianism section to include a more modern true blues section, that will hopefully be more palletable to onlookers --Ifcp1 03:47, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

As you should know there was no such "no catholics" policy. I have removed the section and urge you not to re-enter the libelious statements. --1886 LFC

[edit] Biggest club in Ireland?

Is the statement that Linfield are Ireland's biggest supported club not a tad subjective? Is there imperical evidence to suggest this?

I think they work out as the biggest on numbers through the turnstyles, The data for RoI is here [[1]], but unfortunetly the irish FA dont publish their stats. I would guess on that basis, it fails WP:VERIFY criteria for inclusion! 86.12.249.63 21:31, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm Irish living in the US and it seems that all the Irish over here are celtic fans. Estimate that a larger percentage of fans in Ireland would support an non-Irish team like Celtic or Man Utd.

Hello unnamed user

I'm looking to reword that section so as its not upseting to some people, because its been vandalised alot.--Ifcp1 03:45, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

- Cheers. I don't think anyone can dispute they are one of the biggest clubs but Derry, Cork, Shamrock Rovers and Bohemian FC may all throw in various claims to that title in one was or another.

[edit] Auto peer review suggestions

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[edit] Delisted GA

If this ever was a good article, it certainly is no more. A very quick glance reveals that it fails at least the following WP:WIAGA criteria:

• 1b - inferior lead section, list incorporation
• 2a,b - not referenced properly, no citation tags
• 3 - especially note the imbalance between "2005-06" section and history section (see WP:RECENT)
• 6 - image has no fair use rationale

Punkmorten 20:09, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Capacity

My understanding was the capacity for Internationals were different from those of domestic games, due to the use of the Railway stand, I've tagged this for citation The Fashion Icon 11:53, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Linfieldfc.gif

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[edit] Only team never to lose an F A cup tie

It is stated in the article that Linfield are the only club never to have lost an F A cup tie. This is not the case as several clubs in the early days of the competition won or drew in ties and then withdrew from the competition without playing again thus never losing a tie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.113.48.9 (talk) 11:22, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

BetacommandBot 21:29, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Clean sweep"

A clean sweep would mean winning everything on offer. Linfield never won any European competition they entered. Domestically, maybe, but they haven't won a true clean sweep. Just a thought. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.145.107.222 (talk) 20:31, 12 June 2008 (UTC)