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.[3]
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.[3] However, he suffered a serious cruciate ligament injury during the following season (his 16 league goals still made him the club's leading scorer),[4] 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.[3]
References
^Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 130. ISBN978-0-356-14354-5.
^"Dave Waller". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
^ abc"Dave Waller". Sky is Blue: The Chesterfield football history resource. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
^Rollin, Jack, ed. (1990). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1990–91. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 190. ISBN0-356-17911-7.
External links
Dave Waller at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
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