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Alan Young (Scottish footballer)

English footballer (born 1955)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ4708120 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alexander Forbes "Alan" Young (born 26 October 1955) is a Scottish footballer who played as a forward in the Football League.

He was born in Kirkcaldy. Having played for three clubs in the English East Midlands, Young still lives on the outskirts of Nottingham, in West Bridgford, and was a regular summariser during live football commentary on BBC Radio Leicester.

Editorial summary

“Alan Young (Scottish footballer)” enters the record as english footballer (born 1955). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alan, Young and Scottish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1955-10-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alan, Young and Scottish.
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Why this record matters

“Alan Young (Scottish footballer)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Alan, Young and Scottish provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4708120. VIAF identifies the subject as 311116483. The Library of Congress control number is no2014128681. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1955.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alan Young (Scottish footballer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.