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Simon Worrall

English rugby union and rugby league footballer

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7520081 ↗
Source-derived summary

Simon Worrall is a former English rugby league footballer for Leeds Rhinos and rugby union for Leeds Carnegie.

His usual position was second row or at loose-forward.

He made his début in a win over Harlequins RL in March 2008.

Editorial summary

“Simon Worrall” enters the record as english rugby union and rugby league footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Simon, Worrall and English can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984-10-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Simon, Worrall and English.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Simon Worrall” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Simon, Worrall and English provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7520081. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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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  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Simon Worrall” 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.