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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Richard Martin Walker | ||
Date of birth | 8 November 1977 | ||
Place of birth | Birmingham, England | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1997–2001 | Aston Villa | 6 | (2) |
1998–1999 | → Cambridge United (loan) | 21 | (3) |
2001 | → Blackpool (loan) | 18 | (3) |
2001 | → Wycombe Wanderers (loan) | 12 | (3) |
2001–2004 | Blackpool | 62 | (12) |
2003–2004 | → Northampton Town | 12 | (4) |
2004 | → Oxford United (loan) | 4 | (0) |
2004–2009 | Bristol Rovers | 143 | (46) |
2008–2009 | → Shrewsbury Town (loan) | 27 | (5) |
2009–2011 | Burton Albion | 35 | (4) |
2011–2012 | Solihull Moors | 5 | (1) |
2012– | Beer Albion | ||
Managerial career | |||
2012–2019 | Beer Albion | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:00, 10 October 2018 (UTC) |
Richard Martin Walker (born 8 November 1977) is an English former footballer who played as a forward for Devon and Exeter League club Beer Albion.
Walker started his career at Aston Villa in 1997. Here, he scored a goal against Arsenal, one of the highest points of his Villa career. After loan spells with Cambridge United, Blackpool [1] and Wycombe Wanderers, he signed for the Seasiders in 2001. He helped Blackpool win the 2001–02 Football League Trophy, playing as a substitute in the final. [2] Walker was loaned out to Northampton Town and Oxford United in the 2003–04 season, before joining Bristol Rovers in the summer of 2004.
A natural goalscorer, he formed a formidable partnership with Junior Agogo before the Ghanaian was sold to Nottingham Forest. Walker scored two goals in the 2007 League Two Play-off Final against Shrewsbury at Wembley, as the Gasheads secured a 3–1 victory to send them up to League One. [3]
Walker was placed on the transfer list at the end of the 2007–08 season, [4] having scored only four goals in that season, all from the penalty spot. He joined Shrewsbury on a full-season loan in the summer of 2008, taking him up to the expiry of his contract with Bristol Rovers. [5]
Following the expiry of his Bristol Rovers contract, he joined newly promoted Burton Albion in July 2009 on a two-year contract, he scored 4 goals in 35 games for the club before his release in May 2011. [6]
On 9 September 2011, Solihull Moors announced the signing of Richard Walker. [7] He made his debut the following day in a 1–0 away win at Boston United. [8] He scored his first goal for the club on 17 September 2011, opening the scoring as Solihull overcame Altrincham 2–0 at Damson Park. [9]
After having played less than a season of Conference North football, he opted to move with his family to Devon in April 2012. Following his retirement, Walker has worked in a large warehouse for Axminster Tools. [10]
He ended the season playing for Beer Albion in the Premier Division of the Devon & Exeter Football League, at level 12 of the league system, some six levels below the team where he had begun the year. He was recruited for Beer by a colleague who played for the team, and who convinced Richard to play alongside him. [11] [12] [13] In August 2019, Walker was announced to have stepped away from the role of player-manager, staying on at the club as a player alongside his sons Sammie and Jamie. [14]
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | League Trophy | Other | Total | ||||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Aston Villa | 1997–98 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Cambridge United (loan) | 1998–99 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 3 |
Aston Villa | 1999–2000 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
Aston Villa | 2000–01 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Blackpool (loan) | 2000–01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 3 |
Wycombe (loan) | 2001–02 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 |
Blackpool | 2001–02 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 11 |
2002–03 | 32 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 4 | |
2003–04 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
Northampton (loan) | 2003–04 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 8 |
Oxford Utd (loan) | 2003–04 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Oxford Utd | 2003–04 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Bristol Rovers | 2004–05 | 27 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 14 |
2005–06 | 46 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 52 | 21 | |
2006–07 | 49 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 22 | |
2007–08 | 24 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 4 | |
Shrewsbury Town (loan) | 2008–09 | 27 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 6 |
Burton Albion | 2009–10 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 3 |
2010–11 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2 | |
Solihull Moors | 2011–12 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Career total | 347 | 87 | 24 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 24 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 408 | 109 |
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