Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Simon Lyons
played nine times in a fully professional league (The Football League) so handily passes  even without taking  into account, which for the record was rejected by the community months and months ago and is never cited by any  regulars.  The "trainee" reference on Soccerbase means that he ''joined'' the club as a trainee, not that he was one at the time he played for the club's First team (association football)|first team (see for example http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=547 David Beckham, whose Man U career is shown in the same way
— User:ChrisTheDude, 21:20, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:ATHLETE||WP:FOOTYN||WP:FOOTY (Wikipedia:Notability)