Talk:Peter Swan (footballer, born 1966)

Statistics
In his autobiography Swanny he describes how he scored 70 goals in 503 games. Trouble is that I have found that he clearly scored 62 goals in 445 games, as demonstrated in his 'Career statistics' section. He clearly got his stats from Soccerbase here.

Soccerbase is wrong. It shows his Burnley stats from 1995 to 1997 as 49 league appearances, and from 1998 to 2000 as 68 league appearances. Trouble is in his second spell he actually made 19 league appearances. Clearly Soccerbase put his total Burnley stats in his second spell row, in addition to his first spell stats in his first spell row. Thus giving an artificial boost. Soccerbase again is right in one part here and here, but not where it counts (in the profile summary). The fact alone that in his book he describes how he spent 1998 to 2000 almost crippled and recovering at Lilleshall shows him playing 70 games in 18 months as somewhat doubtful.

His book doesn't include a breakdown of his stats, but it shows that his book's throwaway comment of '70 goals in 503 games' was taken from Soccerbase. Now, if the media were to report his stats, if someone else was to do research for some other book then what source would they believe? Wikipedia or Swan's own book? A simple mistake from Soccerbase that could be very quickly corrected (if only they responded to e-mails), and look what the outcome is: a small part of history is changed.--EchetusXe 11:57, 4 September 2011 (UTC)