John meffen

Jock Simpson

Hi John, I see you have recently edited Jock Simpson. Are you aware that a number of Irish books/sources refer to a John, Jack or Jock Simpson playing for Shelbourne F.C. in the League of Ireland during the mid 1920s. I believe this maybe the same player although this would contradict some of the info you have posted. While researching my book Ireland’s First Real World Cup -The Story of the 1924 Ireland Olympic Football Team, I came across this Simpson on several occasions. He had a fairly eventful career with Shelbourne. In 1924 in played for an FAI XI against Celtic in an Olympic fundraiser . The same year he also played for a Shelbourne XI against the Ireland Olympic team. He is also listed as Shelbourne’s top goalscorer in the 1925-26 League of Ireland. There is a British Pathe film clip of the FAI XI available online. Djln --Djln (talk) 18:55, 25 June 2013 (UTC) see also List of Shelbourne F.C. seasons

May 2015

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Peter Currie (footballer), without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. GiantSnowman 15:03, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Syd Puddefoot

Hi John, I'm just working on an expansion to the Syd Puddefoot article and noticed you'd added the link about the Falkirk transfer. I see it's your site, so congrats on a job well done. The other article on his brother is also really useful (although The Scotsman seem to think he played two competitive games for you. Any idea about that, or do you reckon they've got mixed up with the cricket match you've unearthed?). Anyway, I was wondering whether you had a source for the bit about Falkirk fans making up the difference for the fee? Thanks! Nzd (talk) 18:49, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Just to confirm, per my Twitter message, this is sorted now. I found some refs and I've made the update. If you ever feel the urge to do some digging, I'd love to know if there's a breakdown of appearance/goal stats for his time a Falkirk. I've search high and low online but to no avail. I'm also trying to get to grips with Len's story. I was going to update the article with the info on your site, but then I cross-referenced the date of the match against Hibs with the fixture list (Falkirk don't have a page for that season but Hibs do) and there's no mention of this game. In fact, the season didn't start until the following week. Is it possible this was a friendly? Sorry to keep pestering you! Nzd (talk) 13:25, 4 October 2017 (UTC)