Talk:Shaun Maloney

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Why is there a J in his name - when his middle name is Richard?????????????????????????????????????????????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.208.176.240 (talk) 19:58, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

He was born in Miri,Malaysia. Not Mirri.

I added the "cleanup" tag for several reasons:


 * Use of jargon. I'm not a soccer player, and I'm from the U.S., so I don't know what 'S' forms or 'caps' are.  Maybe this needs to be explained better.  Also "knuckle down" would be considered jargon, although I understand that one.
 * No sources are mentioned - I suspect the article was created by someone familiar with Shaun Maloney. Also I'm not sure about the POV of the article - I would say it isn't strictly neutral.  For evidence, look at such phrases as:
 * "...where he really started to knuckle down"
 * "He started to become anxious..."
 * "The rigorous side of training took him by surprise at the start..."
 * "...the fans could see he had talent..."
 * "...knowing he had given his all..."

I'll leave this to someone more experienced to fix it up correctly. Roachmeister 14:26, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

I think that this little phrase "After Celtic's worst European defeat in their history, in which they lost 5 - 0 to Artmedia Bratislava, Shaun was one of the only players who could leave the stadium knowing he had given his all, a sentiment shared with the majority of the Celtic support" is probably indicative that, this portion of text at least, is probably designed to be little more than a gratuitous mention of a poor result for Celtic, with little or no relation to the subject of the article. 25 Mar 06

Just happened to be browsing through this to check where Maloney was born. Think the 5-0 reference is the singlemost turning point in his career, as the whole team were rank apart from him. From then on he's been Celtic's best player this season. Previous to this he was thought of as talent, but not really required in the first 11. Now he's the first name on the teamsheet.

'S' forms are the contracts kids are signed from school with. All Scottish kids are signed on 'S' forms, it's the standard procedure and means nothing except they'll train, get a small wage and the oppertunity to earn a full-time contract(which most do not). Caps just means playing for your international country. Getting a game for your country means "to be capped" and if you play five times you receive '5 caps'. This is because they actually did give out caps(hats) when you played for your country. It's standard language in world football.

I do agree the rest of mostly POV.


 * Can anyone provide a source to verify : "After Celtic's worst European defeat in their history, in which they lost 5 - 0 to Artmedia Bratislava, Shaun was one of the only players who could leave the stadium knowing he had given his all, a sentiment shared with the majority of the Celtic support"--TheMadTim 22:30, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

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Ethnicity
He was born in Malaysia, but his name is obviously Irish. And he's listed in the 'Scots of Malaysian descent' catagory. I'm sure he's at least half Scottish, so are one of his parents, or grandparents Malaysian? Cos being born in Malaysia doesn't necassarily mean that you're of Malaysian ancestory. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.209.46.103 (talk) 07:59, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Chicago Fire
I see someone tagged reference about his signing to the Chicago Fire, and was removed, which is fine. However, I also included an updated photo of him being signed to the Fire, why was this removed? JanderVK (talk) 22:55, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The link "ShaunMaloneyChicagoFire.jpg" did not work. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 06:15, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Sources for appearances
Mr Maloney has 79 regular-season league appearances for Wigan, and 2 in the playoffs. Soccerway count playoffs in with regular-season matches, which is why they list his Wigan total as 81. Infobox stats are for regular-season league matches only, see template documentation, so he should have 79.

For Villa, Soccerway omit his appearance in the match at Fulham on 25 August 2007, but do include his goal. The match layout shows him as an unused substitute with a goal... So 30 would be correct. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 08:32, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

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