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Charlie Williamson (footballer, born 1962)

association football player (born 1962)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ28868060 ↗
Source-derived summary

Charles Harold Williamson (born 16 March 1962) is an English retired professional footballer who played as a left back in the Football League for Sheffield Wednesday, Chesterfield, Southend United and Lincoln City. After retiring as a player, he undertook work as a coach, scout and served as Head of Recruitment at Chesterfield between June and December 2019.

Editorial summary

“Charlie Williamson (footballer, born 1962)” enters the record as association football player (born 1962). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Charlie, Williamson and footballer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1962, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962-03-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Charlie, Williamson and footballer.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Charlie Williamson (footballer, born 1962)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Charlie, Williamson and footballer 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 Aug 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28868060. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962 and 2019.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Charlie Williamson (footballer, born 1962)” 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.