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Desmond Sinclair "Des" Walker (born 26 November 1965 in Homerton, London) is a former England international footballer with 59 full caps. He played with distinction at two major international football finals. At club level he played in seven cup finals for Nottingham Forest at Wembley winning five of them. He was Forest's player of the year three times. On four straight occasions at Forest he was selected for the PFA Team of the Year. At Sheffield Wednesday he picked up another player of the year accolade. He played in twenty seasons of senior football. All but the last three of those were in the top flight in either England or Italy. ==Playing Style== Walker was a pacey and hard-tackling central defender regarded for the consistently high quality of his defending through the first half of his playing career. Defensively he was among the best markers and timers of the tackle of the television era in English football. His speed allowed him to repeatedly recover difficult situations for his teams. His strengths were as an out and out defender rather than someone accomplished at bringing or distributing the ball from the back. At set pieces for his teams he would stay back to provide defensive cover rather than supplement the attack. This is reflected in that in playing around 800 senior games he only scored once for his teams. He played in 20 seasons of senior football with all but the last three of those in the top flight. Other than a brief spell in the USA he only played for three clubs. None of the three were ever genuine contenders for a league championship. He played in 7 cup finals with Nottingham Forest at Wembley winning five. Perhaps a more useful indication of the consistency of his excellence are the individual accolades he collected when at his peak. In the last six seasons of his first spell at Forest he was Player of the Year three times. In the last four of those seasons he was selected for the PFA Team of the Year each time. On his return from his season in Italy he was player of the year in his first season at Sheffield Wednesday. Following his full international debut in 1988 he became the quickest player to collect 50 full England caps taking just over 4 years. Walker rarely missed matches. He incurred a remarkably low number of bookings during the first 10 years of his career. This was despite his often dispossessing opponents with sliding challenges from all directions. While not being the tallest centre-back he could leap to beat the tallest forwards in the air and his pace meant even the quickest and most skilful forwards very rarely got any change from him. At the height of his career, Forest, Owls and England fans frequently chanted "You'll never beat Des Walker." This was turned into "You'll never ''meet'' Des Walker" as a private joke among journalists, commenting on Walker's refusal to talk to the press at this point. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Des Walker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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