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Peter Stronach

English association football player (born 1956)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ18737051 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peter Stronach (born 1 September 1956) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for Sunderland and York City, and in non-League football for Chester-le-Street. He was an England schools international.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Peter Stronach” as english association football player (born 1956). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Peter, Stronach and English.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-09-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Peter, Stronach and English providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Peter Stronach”, the useful work is to connect “english association football player (born 1956)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 May 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18737051. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1956.

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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peter Stronach” 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.