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'''Alan McLoughlin''' (born 20 April 1967) is an [[Republic of Ireland|Irish]] coach, and former player, of [[association football]] (soccer).
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McLoughlin began his career as a trainee at [[Manchester United F.C.]], before joining [[Swindon Town F.C.]] in August [[1986]]. However, he didn't fit in well with manager [[Lou Macari]]'s long ball style, and just seven months and nine appearances later, he moved to [[Torquay United F.C.]] on loan.
=='''Welcome!'''==
His Swindon career looked to be over when he returned to Torquay at the start of the following season for another loan spell, but following suspensions to other players McLoughlin was given another chance in the first team and soon established himself.
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It was under Macari's sucessor as manager, [[Ossie Ardiles]], that McLoughlin really blossomed. He was an ever present in Ardiles' first season, and scored sixteen goals. He capped off a fine season by scoring the winning goal in the Play-Off final at [[Wembley Stadium]] against [[Sunderland AFC]].
==Double-lined mackerel==
The article title is perfectly fine; all that needed to be done is a complete rewrite, with meaningful stuff. Thanks. -[[User:Hmib|Hmib]] 07:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:I've rewritten the article as a stub; please take a look. Also, I'm claiming this as "my" page. :D -[[User:Hmib|Hmib]] 07:52, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
McLoughlin's performances won him international recognition, and he was named in the [[Republic of Ireland national football team|Ireland squad]] for the [[Football World Cup 1990|1990 World Cup]] in [[Italy]]. He made two appearances in the tournament, coming on as a substitute in the matches with [[England national football team|England]] and [[Egypt national football team|Egypt]].
== [[Diving]] cleanup ==
However, before the next season began, Swindon were demoted by the [[Football League]] for making irregular payments to players. With the club in financial trouble, players had to be sold, and McLoughlin's left for Southampton in December 1990, for a club record £1 million.
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However he failed to show the level of form that he had at Swindon, and he was loaned to first [[Aston Villa F.C.]] then [[Portsmouth F.C.]]. The latter were impressed enough by McLoughlin to make a bid for him, and so in Febuary 1992 he moved to [[Fratton Park]] for £400,000 after making only 29 appearances for the Saints.
== Welcome 2 ==
It was at Portsmouth that he enjoyed his finest years as a player. Whilst at the club McLoughlin represented Ireland at the [[Football World Cup 1994|1994 World Cup]].
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In December 1999 he was sold to [[Wigan Athletic F.C.]] for £260,000. However injuries prevented him from making a major impact and he moved on a free transfer to [[Rochdale F.C.]] in December 2001, having made only 12 starts (plus 10 as a sub) for Wigan, scoring one goal.
== GHS ==
With his career winding down McLoughlin joined [[Forest Green Rovers F.C.]] as a player-coach for the 2002/03 season. At the end of the season McLoughlin retired from playing to concentrate on coaching with the club.
Collin Sutton, GHS c/o '07. In-text citations are often helpful, I agree. Maybe we should try to place the citations (templated or not) with the section the source is used in whenever possible? When a citation link is broken, though, such as the one under history, they're no good at all. Something else to consider: it would seem that the general style on Wikipedia is to provide a link the the Wiki page for a certain thing if it exists, rather than to simply provide a link to an external web page (as I've done with the Mountaineers reference).--[[User:Insaneinside|Insaneinside]] 19:57, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
*I'll do the photo replacement; additional reply at [[Talk:James_A._Garfield_High_School_%28Seattle%29#Image_replacement_request]]. [[User:Insaneinside|Insaneinside]] 23:28, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
He was capped 42 times for the Republic of Ireland.
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==Word Freak==
Thanks for getting in touch with me. Regarding the Word Freak entry, I think if you just remove the quote from the LA Times, and also the reference to "Farsis' wit" (just "Farsis' humorous approaches" would be better), the NPOV requirements would be satisfied. [[User:Bwithh|Bwithh]] 18:55, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your contribution to Wikipedia. I have now removed the NPOV tag from Word Freak [[User:Bwithh|Bwithh]] 19:28, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
== speedy tags ==
Thanks: Any guidance on what was inappropriate will be appreciated. Just doing my best to keep out garbage.<em>—<font color="Indigo">[[User:Gaff|Gaff]]</font> <sup><small><b><font color="MediumSlateBlue">[[User_talk:Gaff|ταλκ]]</font></sup></small></b></em> 02:37, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
==user page==
your userpage is a disconnected, incongruent autobiographical ramble. it is therefore nonsense and should be taken off of wikipedia.
:''see reply at ''[[User_talk:129.74.120.219]]
== [[Main Page]] ==
No worries, I was actually talking to [[User:HereToHelp|HereToHelp]], not you. On his talk page he states he is a newbie, which is why I assumed he was not an admin. — [[User:Flamingspinach|flamingspinach]] | [[User_talk:Flamingspinach|(talk)]] 23:04, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
== delete tags ==
Thanks. I won't use { {delete} } any more. Is there a list of suitable tags anywhere? --[[User:Bucephalus|Bucephalus]] [[User talk:Bucephalus|<small>talk to me</small>]] 18:31, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
== [[Mrs. Campbell]] ==
I added the speedy tag there. Please feel free to remove the tag if the article is valid. [[User:Tintin1107|Tintin]] 18:44, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
== Torture Flights ==
Please use the discussion section to detail the nature of the cleanup needed and the nature of the neutrality claim. You have made neither. [[User:24.18.194.118|24.18.194.118]] 06:09, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
== [[SOFA district]] ==
You added the extremely generic US-stub to this article. In the future, please consider using a more specific and helpful stub such as NorthCarolina-geo-stub. You can find all of them at [[Wikipedia:Stub_categories]]. Doing a quick spell check on stubs doesn't hurt either. --[[User:WAvegetarian|WAvegetarian]] 23:06, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
:Sorry about that. I went to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types#Geographical]] and didn't see anything more specific than US-stub. I'll check again next time! — [[User:Mathwiz2020|<big>M</big><small>ATHWIZ</small><big>20</big><small>20</small>]] <sup>[[User_talk:Mathwiz2020|<big>T</big><small>ALK</small>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Mathwiz2020|<big>C</big><small>ONTRIBS</small>]]</sup> 23:10, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
RE: Speedy Deletion
I apologize for utilizing the speedy deletion template. However, as a non-admin contributing wikipedian, I found that that particular page met criteria for speedy deletion, like a hand in a glove. How do you suppose I should tag such pages for speedy deletion, in the future, for example, without creating unnecessary work for admins? --[[User:Master Jay|Master Jay]] 01:09, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
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