Justin Walker (footballer)

Football player infobox
playername = Justin Walker


fullname = Justin Matthew Walker
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1975|9|6
cityofbirth = Nottingham
countryofbirth = England
currentclub = F.C. Halifax Town
clubnumber =
position = Midfielder
youthyears = 1991-1992
youthclubs = Nottingham Forest
years = 1992-1997 1997-2000 2000-2002 2002-2003 2003-2005 2004 2005-2006 2006-2008 2008-
clubs =Nottingham Forest Scunthorpe United Lincoln City Exeter City Cambridge United → York City (loan) Chester City Ilkeston Town F.C. Halifax Town
caps(goals) = 000 (0) 132 (2) 076 (4) 039 (5) 059 (2) 009 (0) 021 (0)
0>34 (1)
nationalyears =
nationalteam = England Youth England Schoolboys
nationalcaps(goals) =
pcupdate = July 2007
ntupdate =

Justin Walker (born September 6 1975, Nottingham) was a professional footballer who made more than 300 Football League appearances for six different clubs from 1997 to 2006 as a midfielder. He is now playing non-league football for F.C. Halifax Town.

As a youngster, Walker represented England at youth and schoolboy level and signed professional forms with Nottingham Forest in September 1992. But he failed to break into the first-team with Forest and joined Scunthorpe United in March 1997. Walker was a regular with United until he moved to Lincoln City in July 2000, playing in the 1998–99 Football League Division Three play-off final win at Wembley Stadium against Leyton Orient.

After two years with Lincoln, Walker joined Exeter City in August 2002, but his solitary season with the Grecians ended in relegation from the Football League. The same fate would befall his next club, Cambridge United in 2004–05. Walker achieved a possibly unique hat-trick of successive relegations out of the league by playing for York City on loan for two months in 2003–04 season.

Walker joined Chester City ahead of the 2005–06 campaign, where he was to manage just 13 league starts. With six weeks of the season remaining Chester lay bottom of the League Two table and Walker seemed set for yet another relegation experience, but a late run of wins saved City from the drop. However, Walker was released in the summer of 2006 and joined Ilkeston Town [Cite news
title= Ex-Imp Walker Joins Ilkeston
url= http://www.theimp.lincolnfans.co.uk/news1398.shtml
publisher= The Forgotten Imp
date= 2006-07-31
accessdate= 2008-01-02] . On 2 August, 2008 he linked up with his former Ilkeston manager Nigel Jemson at F.C. Halifax Town. [cite web
url=http://www.halifaxafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10437~1357036,00.html
title=Midfielder signs for Vince
publisher=F.C. Halifax Town Official Web-site
date= 2 August, 2008
accessdate=2008-08-12]

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