Dave Harold Waller | |
Birth Date: | 20 December 1963 |
Birth Place: | Urmston, England |
Height: | 5 ft 10 in[1] |
Position: | Forward |
Years1: | 1981–1986 |
Caps1: | 168 |
Goals1: | 55 |
Years2: | 1986–1987 |
Caps2: | 11 |
Goals2: | 3 |
Years3: | 1987–1991 |
Caps3: | 119 |
Goals3: | 53 |
Years4: | 1991–1992 |
Caps4: | 5 |
Goals4: | 0 |
Caps5: | ? |
Goals5: | ? |
Clubs6: | Glapwell |
Caps6: | ? |
Goals6: | ? |
Years7: | 1996–1998 |
Caps7: | 37 |
Goals7: | 17 |
Totalcaps: | 340 |
Totalgoals: | 128 |
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.
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.[2] 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. However, he suffered a serious cruciate ligament injury during the following season (his 16 league goals still made him the club's leading scorer),[3] 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.