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Regarding the "disappearance" of this player for several seasons, I recall that I originally included the admittedly speculative reason for his absence because I was sure I had read it somewhere, but I could not remember where. This morning, I had an inkling and followed it up to find in some old notes that, in a telephone conversation with one Keith Warsop in 2005, he said to me that in the opinion of one John Goulstone, Purchase probably went to America with the army. I don't actually recall the conversation but it is clear from the note that it was said and so that is where the information came from. This leaves the problem of providing a written secondary source. One person's spoken view (unless Mr Goulstone has written and published it somewhere) received secondhand via an intermediary is not an approved verification. ----Jack | talk page12:37, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
