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Robbie Wakenshaw

English footballer (born 1965)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ2159104 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert Andrew Wakenshaw (born 22 December 1965) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Career

Wakenshaw played for Everton, Carlisle United, Doncaster Rovers, Rochdale, Crewe Alexandra, Fleetwood, Northwich Victoria and Southport.

He also participated at the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Later life

His two sons were attacked by a football hooligan in October 2014.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Robbie Wakenshaw” is english footballer (born 1965). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Robbie, Wakenshaw and English, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1965, 1985, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-12-22. For this dossier, Robbie, Wakenshaw and English is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “english footballer (born 1965)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Apr 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2159104. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1985 and 2014.

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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robbie Wakenshaw” 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.