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Bill Brindley

association football player (1947-2007)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ27839521 ↗
Source-derived summary

John Charles Brindley (29 January 1947 – 6 April 2007) was an English footballer active in the 1960s and 1970s. A full-back, he made a total of 247 appearances in the Football League for Nottingham Forest, Notts County and Gillingham. He played non-league football for Grantham, Burton Albion and Alfreton Town. He later managed Boston, Meadows Albion, Heanor Town, Ilkeston Town and Arnold Town.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bill Brindley” as association football player (1947-2007). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-01-29. The account is most persuasive where Bill, Brindley and association can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as association football player (1947-2007). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Aug 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q27839521. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1947 and 2007.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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This entry incorporates text from “Bill Brindley” 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.