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Chris Waddle Personal information Full name Christopher Roland Waddle Date of birth 14 December 1960 Place of birth Felling, England[1] Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Playing position Winger Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1978–1980 Tow Law Town ? (?) 1980–1985 Newcastle United 170 (46) 1985–1989 Tottenham Hotspur 138 (33) 1989–1992 Olympique de Marseille 107 (22) 1992–1996 Sheffield Wednesday 109 (10) 1996 Falkirk 4 (1) 1996–1997 Bradford City 25 (6) 1997 Sunderland 7 (1) 1997–1998 Burnley 32 (1) 1998 Torquay United 7 (0) 2000–2002 Worksop Town 60 (3) 2002 Glapwell ? (?) Total 659 (123) National team 1985–1991 England 62 (6) Teams managed 1997–1998 Burnley * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Christopher Roland "Chris" Waddle (born 14 December 1960 in Felling, Tyne and Wear) is a former footballer from England. He played for a number of clubs in the 1980s and 90s, including Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur and Sheffield Wednesday in England, and Olympique de Marseille in France. He also played 62 times for the England national football team between 1985 and 1991.
Waddle currently works as a co-commentator for ESPN's Premier League football coverage, and for BBC 5 Live.
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Playing career
Early career
Waddle began his footballing career with Pelaw Juniors, moving on to Whitehouse SC, Mount Pleasant SC, HMH Printing, Pelaw SC, Leam Lane SC and Clarke Chapman before joining Tow Law Town in the 1978 close-season.
Newcastle United
After unsuccessful trials with Sunderland[2] and Coventry City and from working in a sausage and meat pie factory he was eventually taken on by Newcastle United who paid £1,000 for his services in July 1980.
He made his Second Division debut for them in a 1–0 home win over Shrewsbury Town on 22 October 1980 and quickly established himself as an effective attacking midfielder, playing alongside Kevin Keegan and Peter Beardsley as Newcastle won promotion to the First Division at the end of 1983–84 season.
In one of his first games in the top flight, against Queen's Park Rangers at Loftus Road on 22 September 1984, Waddle scored a first half hat-trick for Newcastle, who had a 4-0 lead at half time. However, a fight back by the West Londoners saw the game end 5-5.[3]
He was called up for the England Under-21's and made his full squad debut against Ireland in March 1985.
Tottenham Hotspur
After 46 goals in 170 games for Newcastle, he moved to Tottenham Hotspur on 1 July 1985 for a fee of £590,000. He scored twice on his league debut, a 4–0 home win over Watford on the opening day of the league season.
At Tottenham he established himself as a regular in the England team, playing in the side that reached the quarter finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico linking up again with Beardsley. After the World Cup he enjoyed his most productive season. He won an FA Cup runners-up medal in 1987 when Spurs were beaten by Coventry, while they also finished third in the League and got to the semi-finals of the League Cup. In the same year, Waddle found himself in the pop charts, with the single "Diamond Lights" making the UK Top 20 in a duet with Spurs and England team-mate Glenn Hoddle. In 1988, he was in the England team which lost all three group games in the European Championships.
Due to the ban on English clubs in European competitions following the Heysel disaster of 1985, there was talk that Waddle would transfer to abroad.[2]
Olympique de Marseille
On 1 July 1989, after scoring 33 times in 138 appearances for Tottenham, Waddle moved to French club Olympique de Marseille for a fee of £4.5 million. During his time there the club were French champions three times (1990, 1991 and 1992).
Waddle started six gamea for England in their run to the semi-finals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup. In the semi-final against West Germany, he hit the post in extra time when the teams were drawing 1–1. However, his final contribution to the game was missing a penalty in the shoot-out, hitting the ball over the bar and sending the Germans through to the final. He subsequently blamed a chance meeting with Uri Geller and Michael Jackson prior to the tournament for missing his penalty. It has been reported that Geller's parting words to Waddle were 'the higher you go, the harder you fall.' He started as a substitute in the third-place play off with Italy which England lost 2-1.
During his years at Marseille, the fans gave him the nickname : "Magic Chris" Has he loved watching Paul Danials on vhs has a way of making himself feel like he was at home. He is known as the heir of former Marseille player Roger Magnusson. He was also voted second best OM player of the century behind Jean Pierre Papin for the club's century anniversary in 1998. Whilst at the club he also had a second stab at pop stardom, joining team mate Basile Boli in recording a song entitled We've Got a Feeling.[4]
Sheffield Wednesday
Waddle returned to England in July 1992 in a £1.25 million move to Sheffield Wednesday, then managed by Trevor Francis. The club reached both domestic cup finals in the 1992–93 season (losing both to Arsenal – Waddle scored Wednesday's goal in the FA Cup final replay) and Waddle was voted the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year in 1993.
Despite his form he earned just one international cap under the manager Graham Taylor.
During 1995–96, Kevin Keegan attempted to re-sign Waddle for Newcastle United as cover for David Ginola during a suspension, but Keegan's attempts to sign the player who had played alongside him more than a decade earlier was unsuccessful.
Waddle's later career at Hillsborough was marred by injuries and he was released 5 games into the 1996–97 season (when the Owls were top of the premiership and having taken young sensation Ritchie Humphreys – 4 goals in 5 games – under his wing) after being frozen out of the team by David Pleat, having played 109 games and scored 10 goals with many more assists.
Falkirk and Bradford City
He joined Falkirk in September 1996 but joined Bradford City the following month. With Bradford City, he scored a goal in the FA Cup against Everton which came second in the February 1997 Match of the Day Goal of the Month.
Sunderland
He moved to Sunderland, the side he had supported as a boy, for a nominal fee of £75,000 in March 1997, but could not help Sunderland from being relegated at the end of the season.
Burnley
In May 1997 he was appointed player-manager of Burnley, moving from Roker Park on a free transfer. Burnley had a disappointing season, only just avoiding relegation at the end of the season.
Torquay United
Waddle left Burnley in the summer, and in September 1998 joined Torquay United. He played just 7 times for Torquay, before taking up a coaching job with Sheffield Wednesday. He was appointed reserve team coach in July 1999, and played for a local pub side, but left in June 2000 on the appointment of Paul Jewell as manager.
Non-league career
Following his departure from Torquay United, Waddle enjoyed two seasons with Worksop Town making 60 appearances and scoring 3 goals. His most notable appearance was in a 12–0 Northern Premier League record win against Frickley Athletic. He also had a brief spell with Glapwell and one appearance for Stocksbridge Park Steels in the Northern Premier League First Division.
Post-football career
Waddle appeared on BBC Radio Five Live as a summariser at Premier League matches and also writes a column in The Sun newspaper.
In 2005 he was charged with attacking a man in a pub in Dore, Sheffield,[5] however the charge was dropped for insufficient evidence.
Waddle signed a deal with Setanta Sports to commentate on all England away matches in 2008–09. Setanta's British division then went into administration and ceased broadcasting in June 2008, and as of August 2009[update] Waddle co-commentates for ESPN's English Premier League football coverage[6]
His cousin, Alan Waddle, played league football for Halifax Town, Liverpool, Leicester City, Swansea City, Newport County, Mansfield Town, Hartlepool United and Peterborough United.
In 2003 Thierry Henry named Waddle in his all-time Dream Team Line up.[7]
Following England's heavy defeat to Germany in the second round of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Waddle criticised the English Football Association, claiming: "The FA sit on their backsides and do nothing tournament after tournament after tournament. Why don't they listen? Why don't they look at other countries and ask 'how do they keep producing talent?' We coach talent out of players … We lack so many ideas and it is so frustrating. The amount of money in our league is frightening and all we do is waste it on rubbish ideas … We kid ourselves thinking we have a chance if we keep the tempo up. We can only play one way and it is poor. You can't go on playing football and hoping to win trophies playing a hundred miles an hour and putting teams under pressure for 90 minutes. You've got to be able to play slow, slow, quick and we can't do it."[8]
Personal life
Waddle has one daughter, Brooke, and a son, Jack. As of October 2010, Jack is a youth team player at Chesterfield.[9]
Honours
England
- 1990 World Cup fourth place medal (semi finalist)
Tottenham Hotspur
- 1987 F.A. Cup: finalist
Olympique Marseille
- 1990 French Championship
- 1991 European Cup finalist
- 1991 French Championship
- 1992 French Championship
Sheffield Wednesday
- 1993 Football Writers Footballer of the Year
- 1993 F.A. Cup: finalist
- 1993 Football League Cup finalist
Statistics
Club performance League Cup League Cup Continental Total Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals England League FA Cup League Cup Europe Total 1980–81 Newcastle United Second Division 13 1 4 2 0 0 - 17 3 1981–82 42 7 3 1 2 0 - 47 8 1982–83 37 7 2 0 1 0 - 40 7 1983–84 42 18 1 0 2 0 - 45 18 1984–85 First Division 36 13 2 1 4 2 - 42 16 1985–86 Tottenham Hotspur First Division 39 11 5 2 6 1 - 50 14 1986–87 39 6 6 2 9 3 - 54 11 1987–88 22 2 2 1 1 0 - 25 3 1988–89 38 14 1 0 5 0 - 44 14 France League Coupe de France Coupe de la Ligue Europe Total 1989–90 Olympique Marseille Division 1 37 9 5 2 8 1 50 12 1990–91 35 6 5 0 9 2 49 8 1991–92 35 7 3 0 3 1 41 8 England League FA Cup League Cup Europe Total 1992–93 Sheffield Wednesday Premier League 33 1 8 2 9 0 4 1 54 4 1993–94 19 3 1 0 6 0 - 26 3 1994–95 25 4 3 1 0 0 - 28 5 1995–96 32 2 1 0 4 0 2 1 39 3 Scotland League Scottish Cup League Cup Europe Total 1996–97 Falkirk Division One 4 1 England League FA Cup League Cup Europe Total 1996–97 Bradford City First Division 26 5 3 1 0 0 - 29 6 1996–97 Sunderland Premier League 7 1 0 0 0 0 - 7 1 1997–98 Burnley Second Division 32 1 2 0 2 1 - 36 2 1998–99 Torquay United Third Division 7 0 0 0 0 0 - 7 0 Total England 489 96 44 13 51 7 6 2 590 118 France 107 22 13 2 20 4 149 28 Scotland 4 1 4 1 Career total 600 119 743 147 References
- ^ Dickinson, Jason; Brodie, John (2005). The Wednesday Boys: A Definitive Who's Who of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club 1880–2005. Sheffield: Pickard Communication. pp. 308. ISBN 0-9547264-9-9.
- ^ http://fourfourtwo.com/interviews/one-on-one/221/article.aspx
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Basile Boli et Chris Waddle" (in French). www.bide-et-musique.com. http://www.bide-et-musique.com/artist/511.html. Retrieved 10 September 2007.
- ^ "Waddle arrested in assault probe". BBC Sport. 26 April 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/4486251.stm. Retrieved 10 September 2007.
- ^ Sweney, Mark (24 August 2009). "ESPN signs Kevin Keegan to front its Premier League coverage". The Guardian. UK.
- ^ Morgan, Michael (22 May 2007). "Wadd is Henrys top man". The Sun (London). http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article187828.ece.
- ^ Hansen, Alan (27 June 2010). "BBC pundits on England". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8766476.stm.
- ^ "Port Vale: Ede urges Vale to make most of cup chance". The Sentinel. 27 October 2010. http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Port-Vale-Ede-urges-Vale-make-cup-chance/article-2801959-detail/article.html. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
External links
- Chris Waddle photos & stats at sporting-heroes.net
- Chris Waddle career stats at Soccerbase
- Chris Waddle on RSSSF-site
1984–85 Football League First Division PFA Team of the Year GK: Peter Shilton · DF: Gary Stevens · DF: Mark Lawrenson · DF: Kevin Ratcliffe · DF: Kenny Sansom · MF: Bryan Robson · MF: Peter Reid · MF: Kevin Sheedy · FW: Ian Rush · FW: Chris Waddle · FW: Kerry Dixon1988–89 Football League First Division PFA Team of the Year GK: Neville Southall · DF: Steve Nicol · DF: Des Walker · DF: Paul Parker · DF: Stuart Pearce · MF: David Rocastle · MF: Bryan Robson · MF: Andy Townsend · MF: Chris Waddle · FW: Mark Hughes · FW: Alan SmithFWA Footballer of the Year 1948: Matthews | 1949: Carey | 1950: Mercer | 1951: Johnston | 1952: Wright | 1953: Lofthouse | 1954: Finney | 1955: Revie | 1956: Trautmann | 1957: Finney | 1958: Blanchflower | 1959: Owen | 1960: Slater | 1961: Blanchflower | 1962: Adamson | 1963: Matthews | 1964: Moore | 1965: Collins | 1966: B. Charlton | 1967: J. Charlton | 1968: Best | 1969: Book/Dave Mackay | 1970: Bremner | 1971: McLintock | 1972: Banks | 1973: Jennings | 1974: Callaghan | 1975: Mullery | 1976: Keegan | 1977: Hughes | 1978: Burns | 1979: Dalglish | 1980: McDermott | 1981: Thijssen | 1982: Perryman | 1983: Dalglish | 1984: Rush | 1985: Southall | 1986: Lineker | 1987: Allen | 1988: Barnes | 1989: Nicol | 1990: Barnes | 1991: Strachan | 1992: Lineker | 1993: Waddle | 1994: Shearer | 1995: Klinsmann | 1996: Cantona | 1997: Zola | 1998: Bergkamp | 1999: Ginola | 2000: Keane | 2001: Sheringham | 2002: Pirès | 2003: Henry | 2004: Henry | 2005: Lampard | 2006: Henry | 2007: C. Ronaldo | 2008: C. Ronaldo | 2009: Gerrard | 2010: Rooney | 2011: ParkerEngland squad – 1986 FIFA World Cup 1 Shilton • 2 Gary Stevens • 3 Sansom • 4 Hoddle • 5 Martin • 6 Butcher • 7 Bryan Robson (c) • 8 Wilkins • 9 Hateley • 10 Lineker • 11 Waddle • 12 Anderson • 13 Woods • 14 Fenwick • 15 Gary A. Stevens • 16 Reid • 17 Steven • 18 Hodge • 19 Barnes • 20 Beardsley • 21 Dixon • 22 Bailey • Coach: Bobby Robson
England squad – UEFA Euro 1988 England squad – 1990 FIFA World Cup Fourth Place Burnley F.C. – managers Bradshaw (1894–99) · Mangnall (1900–03) · Whittaker (1903–10) · Wadge (1910) · Haworth (1910–24) · Pickles (1925–32) · Bromilow (1932–35) · Britton (1945–48) · Hill (1948–54) · Brown (1954–57) · Dougall (1957–58) · Potts (1958–70) · Adamson (1970–76) · Brown (1976–77) · Potts (1977–79) · Miller (1979–83) · Casper (1983) · Bond (1983–84) · Benson (1984–85) · Buchan (1985) · Cavanagh (1985–86) · Miller (1986–89) · Casper (1989–91) · Mullen (1991–96) · Middlemass (caretaker) (1996) · Heath (1996–97) · Waddle (1997–98) · Ternent (1998–04) · Cotterill (2004–07) · Davis (caretaker) (2007) · Coyle (2007–10) · Laws (2010) · Gray (caretaker) (2010–11) · Howe (2011–)
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