Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1894–95 World Championship
No evidence that this match passes the |general notability guideline either via contemporary or enduring non-trivial coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject.I think too much is being read into a light-hearted reference in the ''Sunderland Echo''; maybe that paper wouldn't have introduced the concept of "World Championship" had their local team lost? This was one of several friendly matches that Sunderland played in Scotland during that season: the ''StatCat'' page referred to by the nominator lists them http://www.thestatcat.co.uk/Match.aspx?MatchID=5359&LU=S&LUID=16 on the left of the page, and describes this match as "a match between the newly crowned champions of England and Scotland." As also mentioned in the nomination, ''The Scotsman''{{'}}s report describes it just as a match featuring the English and Scottish champions.The English papers in general listed it in their fixtures and results sections under "Ordinary matches" or "Club matches", a heading that included friendlies, county senior cups, benefit matches and similar. The longest English report I can find (in a selection of papers available via the British Library 19th century newspaper collection; not possible to supply generally accessible URLs), is in the ''Sheffield Independent'' which over 5 sentences described it as a match between "the rival league champions" which "lost some of its importance from the fact that both teams were without several of their regular players" but was "a capital game".So it's a friendly for which neither club fielded a full-strength team, which didn't have an unusual level of coverage at the time, and has had approaching none since. cheers
— User:Struway2, 14:37, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
Stance: delete
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