Dave Waller

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Dave Harold Waller
Personal information
Date of birth (1963-12-20) 20 December 1963 (age 61)
Place of birth Urmston, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) [1]
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1981–1986 Crewe Alexandra 168 (55)
1986–1987 Shrewsbury Town 11 (3)
1987–1991 Chesterfield 119 (53)
1991–1992 Kettering Town 5 (0)
Worksop Town ? (?)
Glapwell ? (?)
1996–1998 Congleton Town 37 (17)
Total340(128)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David Harold Waller (born 20 December 1963 in Urmston, Lancashire) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League, as a forward for clubs including Crewe Alexandra, Shrewsbury Town and Chesterfield. [2]

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Career

Waller signed a professional contract at Crewe in 1982. After scoring 55 goals in four season at Gresty Road, he was sold to Shrewsbury for £20,000 in 1986, but suffered an injury soon after, and was sold for £3,000 to Chesterfield, becoming the last player signed by John Duncan during his first spell in charge. [3]

Waller scored 37 goals in his first two seasons at Chesterfield; in the 1988–89 season he equalled Jimmy Cookson's feat of scoring in eight successive League games. [3] However, he suffered a serious cruciate ligament injury during the following season (his 16 league goals still made him the club's leading scorer), [4] and eventually left the club, playing for non-league teams while running a stall on Chesterfield's market. He was player/manager at Glapwell in 1993, and retired from football at the end of the 1997–1998 season. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 130. ISBN   978-0-356-14354-5.
  2. ↑ "Dave Waller". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Dave Waller". Sky is Blue: The Chesterfield football history resource. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  4. ↑ Rollin, Jack, ed. (1990). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1990–91. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 190. ISBN   0-356-17911-7.


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