Portal talk:Football

Comments on new draft
Thank you for preparing this draft. You forgot to say who you are or to introduce your work, like "Hi, this is my proposed new version of this portal: does anyone wish to comment? ~ "

My comment is that I like this version: it is a great improvement over the present boring-looking disambig page. Since it seems we are to retain a Portal:Football, this proposed version is what I think it should look like.

As per the MfD I still question what is the role of a Portal:Football. In what circumstances do we want readers to be led to this, rather than to the full-dress portals for the main individual football codes? As regards mainspace articles this portal is currently an orphan, as I have changed the portal links in the small minority of football-related articles that previously linked to this portal (for example, Belgium national under-21 football team). Which pages does anyone think should have a link to this portal? Noyster (talk),  20:52, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Whoops! Thanks for commenting!
 * It could perhaps be linked from Football and Football (disambiguation). I agree with you on its uncertain purpose. If it's just going to be for disambiguation and navigation, another possibility is to redirect it to Template:Sports portals browsebar, which has the main individual football portals on it. Celia Homeford (talk) 07:19, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Drawback of linking from Football is that the new version would repeat the lead of that very article. – I think we should go ahead and adopt Celia's new version. I prefer this over redirecting to, as that would land the reader amongst sports unrelated to football. No article should link to this page, but as pointed out in the MfD, someone, somewhere could input "Portal:Football" into the search engine Noyster (talk),  13:25, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

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