Talk:Marc Roberts (footballer)

Height
In terms of reliability, Halifax Town's website is at least as reliable as Birmingham City's, and certainly more so than that of the Premier League, with which Mr Roberts has never been registered. Unfortunately, in the case of Mr Roberts, an error was made somewhere – if I had to, I'd guess that someone made a typo of 1.83 for 1.93 – the company that supplied the background stuff (heights, weights, stats etc) to most of the EFL websites duly supplied the wrong value, and it's been blindly copied ever since.

As to contemporary sources,  and, bearing in mind that there aren't many professional centre-backs under'' six feet tall so it's unlikely clubs or media would describe a man of that height as "towering" or "giant",
 * 2009 Huddersfield Examiner: his Wakefield manager describes him as "a 6ft 4in defender or midfielder who is mobile, quick and excellent in the air";
 * 2013 FC Halifax Town: "The 6ft 4 centrehalf is the fifth player to join the Shaymen this summer";
 * 2016 Yorkshire Post: "If the 6ft 4in defender had any doubts about the step up";
 * 2017 Daily Mirror: "Strapping 6ft 4in defender Roberts";
 * 2017 Buxton FC vice-chairman on Northern Premier League website: "In a statement paying tribute to the 6' 4" defender";
 * 2011 Gainsborough Standard: "Towering defender Marc Roberts easily outjumped his marker";
 * 2012 Worksop Guardian: a "giant defender";
 * 2013 Buxton FC profile: "giant centre-half";
 * 2017 Sheffield Star: "towering centre-back"...

Basically, if multiple reliable non-database sources had him 6 ft 4 from 2009 onwards, then he still is, whatever Birmingham City's website and some (but not all) stats databases say now. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 14:39, 25 August 2022 (UTC)