Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Campbell (footballer born 1988)
re sources, low-level football in England, and media coverage thereof. Newcastle Benfield, Campbell's club before Darlington, plays at the ''ninth'' tier of football in England, in front of about 100 people, and the local paper, the ''Chronicle'', has a weekly roundup of the league's results, giving a namecheck to anyone who did anything out of the ordinary. The agency piece on the Telegraph website quotes a former teammate at junior level telling the Swindon local paper that Campbell did OK in a trial with that club's reserve team. The BBC routinely report signings for clubs at sixth tier and above, so they will mention him joining Darlington. The ''Journal'' is the local paper doing a piece on one of the local team's players. That's what local papers do. NUFC hung their piece leading up to a pre-season friendly against Darlington on the contrast between Campbell, who they released at age 14, and Andy Carroll, who they didn't, and who went on to set an English transfer record. In England, this is the sort of routine sports journalism that semi-pro football gets. It certainly isn't the sort of significant coverage needed to pass 
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