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Graham Watson (footballer, born 1970)

Scottish footballer, born 1970

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ20877344 ↗
Source-derived summary

Graham Watson (born 11 September 1970) is a Scottish former footballer, who played for Aberdeen, Clyde, Livingston and Forfar Athletic.

Whilst at Aberdeen he played in the 1990 Scottish Cup Final and scored one of the penalties in the shootout as Aberdeen defeated Celtic.

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The public source identifies “Graham Watson (footballer, born 1970)” as scottish footballer, born 1970. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Graham, Watson and footballer.

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—1970, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-09-11. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Graham, Watson and footballer providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20877344. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1970 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Graham Watson (footballer, born 1970)” 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.