There seems to me absolutely nothing intuitive about using a picture of a ball as a symbol for a goal. What was the rationale behind this? Kevin McE (talk) 19:55, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For disclosure I think the template is fine. That said, it might be worth asking the creator directly. Given that the template has been used on thousands of articles without so much as a talk page, I would suggest that there might be silent consensus for it. Of course, there is the possibility that that might change. Regards, --WFC-- 20:15, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In a recent edit, User:Chanheigeorge added lots of duplicate code to accomodate for someone who scored 16 goals. However, I can not find any article that actually uses this template that way: when a very high amount of goals are scored by a player, they always seem to be split up over multiple lines. See for example the very articles where those 16 goals were scored (J. Kaltack with Vanuatu vs Micronesia, here and here), which split those goals over 3 template usages, over 3 lines. After all, if more than 10 or so goals were scored by a single player, all those minutes simply do not fit in a footballbox, so it makes sense indeed to start a new template on every line.

Conclusion: do we even need to accomodate for such a high usage, if the recommendation should probably be to split it over multiple lines anyway? I propose keeping 10 as a maximum, and make a note of that in the documentation (where it actually says five are supported). Sygmoral (talk) 16:23, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]