Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FA Premier League curse of Christmas

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The result was Delete FA Premier League curse of Christmas. The second article needs a separate AfD as it is tucked away halfway down the list and can't be expected to have attracted the same amount of interest. If you add another article to an AfD it needs to be almost right away and needs to be prominently mentioned near the original nom. Yomangani ^talk 15:06, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FA Premier League curse of Christmas[edit]

stinks of OR Will ^{(Tell me, is something eluding you, sunshine?)} 17:44, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Statistical trivia, not encyclopedic. Agent 86 19:10, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per Agent 86 - fchd 19:24, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Notability? Sources? Ramsquire ^{(throw me a line)} 19:34, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No assertion of notability. Hello32020 20:18, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Apparently the team that is in last place in the Premier League approximately halfway through the season almost always winds up in the bottom three places of the league by the end of the season. I would tend to attribute this to the fact that the team in last place at Christmas must not be playing particularly well, rather than to any kind of curse. --Metropolitan90 20:56, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oh for fu... delete - it is a football cliche quoted from August until December, NOT an encylopaedic article. End of. Bubba hot ep 23:04, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as above Catchpole 00:00, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Wow this really is a whole new level of stupid. How did this last nearly a year? I like the way this is attributed as a Premier League thing: did this not happen in the old first division? etc. Morwen - Talk 09:26, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also nominating Premiership-Football League gulf (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) on the same grounds. Will ^{(Tell me, is something eluding you, sunshine?)} 10:30, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete ridiculousness. Rever e ndG 06:04, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of football (soccer) related deletions. ChrisTheDude 08:49, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete' - totally trivial. Qwghlm 10:27, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge; maybe worth a sentence in FA Premier League. The "curse" usually garners a bit of coverage in the sport media every Christmas, so I don't imagine sourcing would be a problem. Hammer Raccoon 17:20, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Fairly neutral on the fate of the first article, leaning delete. The subject crops up each Christmas as Hammer Raccoon points out, and gained a reasonable amount of coverage when West Brom bucked the trend. Mentioned in passing frequently but rarely in any depth e.g. [1] [2] [3] [4]. The perceived gap between the top two divisions gets more coverage, e.g. [5] [6] so Keep Premiership-Football League gulf, though as it stands the article is horrible. (should be a separate AfD IMO, as there were already eight comments before the second article was added to the nomination) Oldelpaso 18:39, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete FA Premier League curse of Christmas and Keep Premiership-Football League gulf (or at least nominate it separately). howch e ng {chat} 17:54, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.