Editing Scott Carson (section)

===Liverpool===
Carson joined [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] on a four-and-a-half-year contract and was to provide competition for [[Jerzy Dudek]] for a first-team place.<ref name="Carson seals switch to Liverpool"/> He made his first team debut for Liverpool in March 2005 in a defeat to [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/4300431.stm |title=Newcastle 1–0 Liverpool |date=5 March 2005 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=20 July 2008 |archive-date=7 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107231608/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/4300431.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> and made three consecutive appearances in April, including the home leg of the [[UEFA Champions League]] quarter-final victory over [[Juventus FC|Juventus]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/4407891.stm |title=Liverpool 2–1 Juventus |date=5 April 2005 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=20 July 2008 |archive-date=26 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526045548/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/4407891.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Owls swoop for keeper Carson"/> He was an unused substitute when Liverpool were victorious in the [[2005 UEFA Champions League final]] and [[2005 UEFA Super Cup]].<ref name="2005UCL">{{cite news |title=AC Milan 3–3 Liverpool (aet) |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/4573159.stm |website=BBC Sport |date=25 May 2005 |access-date=12 December 2017 |archive-date=12 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612150505/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/4573159.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="2005USC">{{cite news |title=Liverpool 3–1 CSKA Moscow (aet) |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/4180288.stm |website=BBC Sport |date=26 August 2005 |access-date=12 December 2017 |archive-date=16 December 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051216145954/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/4180288.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Loan to Sheffield Wednesday====
Carson made only four appearances for Liverpool in the 2005–06 season, all in cup competitions,<ref name=sb0506/> and in March 2006 moved to [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.|Sheffield Wednesday]] on [[Loan (association football)|loan]].<ref name=sb0506/> Wednesday sought his services to help solve their goalkeeping crisis, while Carson was looking to gain more first team experience and to challenge for a place in the England [[2006 FIFA World Cup]] squad.<ref name="Owls swoop for keeper Carson">{{cite news |title=Owls swoop for keeper Carson |date=11 March 2006 |newspaper=Liverpool Echo}} "The 20-year-old has made only four appearances this season – all in cup competitions – and has been allowed to move to gain more first team experience."</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/sheff_wed/4794486.stm |title=Owls complete double loan swoop |date=10 March 2006 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=20 July 2008 |archive-date=3 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070903183427/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/sheff_wed/4794486.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport1/Owls-keeper39s-world-cup-bid.1383040.jp |title=Owls keeper's world cup bid owls |date=11 March 2006 |newspaper=The Star |location=Sheffield |access-date=20 July 2008 |archive-date=22 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122102923/http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport1/Owls-keeper39s-world-cup-bid.1383040.jp |url-status=live }}</ref> He kept five [[clean sheet]]s in nine appearances for Wednesday, whose assistant manager [[Kevin Summerfield]] hailed his contribution as a key factor in helping the club escape relegation.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport1/Loan-keeper-Carson-No-1.1474822.jp |title=Loan keeper Carson No 1 for Wednesday in Championship survival battle |date=1 May 2006 |newspaper=The Star |location=Sheffield |access-date=20 July 2008 |archive-date=22 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122091325/http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport1/Loan-keeper-Carson-No-1.1474822.jp |url-status=live }}</ref> He returned to Liverpool at the end of the season and in July 2006, extended his contract with Liverpool until 2011.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/5216254.stm |title=Carson & Anderson sign new deals |date=26 July 2006 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=20 July 2008 |archive-date=6 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006130048/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/5216254.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Loan to Charlton Athletic====
In August 2006, Carson joined [[Charlton Athletic F.C.|Charlton Athletic]] on loan for the [[2006–07 Charlton Athletic F.C. season|2006–07 season]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/4792167.stm |title=Carson signs for Charlton on loan |date=14 August 2006 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=20 July 2008 |archive-date=25 August 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060825235049/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/4792167.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> after Charlton failed in a bid for [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]] goalkeeper [[Robert Green]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Dowie's Plan B after Green's Hammer blow |last=Brooks |first=Gideon |date=15 August 2006 |newspaper=Daily Express |location=London}} "The former Canary, [Robert Green], 26, became a Hammer despite being widely expected to dot his signature on a deal that would have taken him to The Valley."</ref> Carson explained that "Liverpool want me to get some experience and then hopefully I can go back next season and be challenging Pepe [Reina] for the number one spot.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} There were a couple of Championship clubs interested but I need to be playing Premiership football because Robert Green, [[Ben Foster (footballer)|Ben Foster]] and [[Chris Kirkland]] are going to be playing week in, week out so I need to be performing."<ref>{{cite news |first=Wayne |last=Veysey |title=Carson hopes for Valley lift |date=18 August 2006 |newspaper=Evening Standard |location=London}}</ref> He played in 36 of 38 Premier League matches, missing only the two matches against Liverpool due to the terms of his loan deal.<ref>{{cite news |first=Gary |last=Haines |url=http://www.charlton-athletic.co.uk/newsview.ink?matchid=4104&type=m |title=Charlton sunk by Reds |date=16 December 2006 |publisher=Charlton Athletic F.C. |access-date=31 August 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227034241/http://www.charlton-athletic.co.uk/newsview.ink?matchid=4104&type=m |archive-date=27 December 2008}} "Charlton's on-loan Liverpool keeper Scott Carson missed out due to Premier League regulations..."</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Gary |last=Haines |url=http://www.charlton-athletic.co.uk/newsview.ink?matchid=4105&type=m |title=Addicks bow out with a bang |date=13 May 2007 |publisher=Charlton Athletic F.C. |access-date=31 August 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227034246/http://www.charlton-athletic.co.uk/newsview.ink?matchid=4105&type=m |archive-date=27 December 2008}} "...the terms of Scott Carson's loan arrangement from Liverpool preventing him from playing against his parent club."</ref> Although he was unable to prevent Charlton from being relegated at the end of 2006–07,<ref name="Liverpool include Carson in plans"/> his outstanding form led him to be named as the [[Charlton Athletic F.C.#Player of the Year|Charlton Athletic Player of the Year]], the first loan player ever to receive the award.<ref>{{cite news |first=Lindsay |last=McCombie |url=http://www.charlton-athletic.co.uk/newsview.ink?nid=30798&newstype=p |title=Carson keeping faith |date=30 April 2007 |publisher=Charlton Athletic F.C. |access-date=4 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227034252/http://www.charlton-athletic.co.uk/newsview.ink?nid=30798&newstype=p |archive-date=27 December 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= |title=Fans' choice Carson drops clanger |date=30 April 2007 |newspaper=Evening Standard |location=London <!--|access-date=4 September 2008--> |via=}} "The 21-year-old has been in outstanding form since joining on a season's loan from Liverpool last summer and the fact Charlton still have a hope of avoiding the drop are thanks in a large part to his displays."</ref>

====Loan to Aston Villa====
[[File:Scott Carson Villa2.jpg|thumb|Carson training with [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]] in 2007]]

Carson returned to Liverpool at the end of the season and in June 2007, Liverpool manager [[Rafael Benítez]] confirmed that he would be part of the first-team squad for the [[2007–08 Liverpool F.C. season|2007–08 season]], saying "He must fight with [[Pepe Reina]] now for a starting place."<ref name="Liverpool include Carson in plans">{{cite news |title=Liverpool include Carson in plans |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/6231308.stm |website=BBC Sport |date=22 July 2007 |access-date=22 June 2007 |archive-date=12 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812073742/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/6231308.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> Carson remained second choice to Reina, however, and faced further competition following the signing of [[Charles Itandje]] in August 2007; as a result, Carson was loaned out again, this time to [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]] at a cost to Villa of £2&nbsp;million.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} Benitez said of the deal, "We do not want to sell him, we are very happy with Scott. But he needs to play to keep up his England place."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/aston_villa/6938522.stm |title=Villa close in on keeper Carson |date=9 August 2007 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=20 July 2008 |archive-date=4 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210704025403/https://secure-uk.imrworldwide.com/v51.js |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Villa sign keeper Carson on loan">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/aston_villa/6941147.stm |title=Villa sign keeper Carson on loan |date=10 August 2007 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=20 July 2008 |archive-date=4 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080204053930/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/aston_villa/6941147.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> Aston Villa manager [[Martin O'Neill]] preferred Carson to [[Thomas Sørensen]] and [[Stuart Taylor (footballer, born 1980)|Stuart Taylor]], and Carson played in all but three of Villa's 38 league matches, missing the two matches against Liverpool as he was ineligible to play,<ref name="Villa sign keeper Carson on loan"/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/aston_villa/article3221986.ece |title=Martin O'Neill says US owner is with Villa for long haul |last=Lansley |first=Peter |date=21 January 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=7 September 2008 |location=London}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} "Stuart Taylor is in goal, with Scott Carson is ineligible because he is on loan from Liverpool."</ref> and kept 11 clean sheets during the 2007–08 season.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/aston_villa/7096859.stm |title=Villa can keep Carson – Benitez |date=15 November 2007 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=20 July 2008 |archive-date=18 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118155053/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/aston_villa/7096859.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=sb0708/> He received the first red card of his career when he fouled [[Carlos Tevez]] in Villa's 4–1 Premier League defeat to Manchester United.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7043000.stm |title=Aston Villa 1–4 Man Utd |website=BBC Sport |date=20 October 2007 |access-date=24 September 2008 |archive-date=1 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501215346/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7043000.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>