Hero or Zero #8 - Mark Walters

[Red Astaire]

This one is going back a bit. Right at the very start of the PL in fact. He was one of the first signings I remember getting quite excited about. A winger he signed for 1.5mill from Rangers. I think I saw a goal he scored for them on MOTD and he was being compared favourably to Digger (no bad thing I thought!) He played 94 times and scored 14 goals including LFCs 1st hat trick (against Coventry) in the PL. I thought he was a bit of a hero but then again it's going right back into the cobwebs of my memory palace so maybe a few older poster have a clearer memory of him. What do you think?

 

[Richey]

I remember him as being average at best. He had his moments (winner against Auxerre being the main one) but overall closer to zero than hero.

Surprised to hear he played in so many games actually. Do the stats show how many failed step overs he attempted?

 

[Red Astaire]

Ahhh Yes I remember that Auxerre game. His goal is on 7.40sec. That team also had the truly awful Nicky Tanner! *Shudders*

 

[Athens]

He's a bit of a non-entity. In my mind at least.

 

[Richey]

Ahhh Yes I remember that Auxerre game. His goal is on 7.40sec. That team also had the truly awful Nicky Tanner! *Shudders*

Indeed. We were only allowed 4 non-English players then I believe, so Tanner probably got in over Steve Nicol!

 

[Judge Jules]

Poor Nicky Tanner - reportedly a decent lad who did his best, but in my considered opinion the worst Liverpool player I've seen in my fifty-plus years supporting LFC. Wasn't there a rumour that we were actually after someone else and signed him by mistake? His signing was greeted with complete and utter amazement in Bristol when we signed him from Rovers - even the Rovers supporters I knew considered him barely a pub team player.

Thread duty: Mark Walters - zero, I'm afraid. Not a bad player, but a very ordinary one. Unfortunately we had all too many of those at the time.

 

[peterhague]

There's nothing much worth saying about Walters - he couldn't even be considered some kind of cult hero - but that game against Auxerre was interesting because it shows just how much football's changed in the 20 years since. The crowd that night for a major European match (equivalent of a CL game now) was barely more than 20k: can you remotely imagine that now? And with prices perhaps 3 times higher, too.

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

Yeah I'm about the same as others... can't say Walters made much of an impression on me as well. Mehness.

 

[SummerOnions]

I think we need more contentious ones, or ones i might of heard have

 

[Red Astaire]

I think we need more contentious ones, or ones i might of heard have

Well @SummerOnions - I thought they were getting a bit obvious so I thought I'd suggest someone completely different. Why don't you suggest someone "more contentious" Or "Someone I might of heard have" 😉

 

[peterhague]

What about Heskey?

 

[the count]

Or Suarez

😗

 

[SummerOnions]

Well @SummerOnions - I thought they were getting a bit obvious so I thought I'd suggest someone completely different. Why don't you suggest someone "more contentious" Or "Someone I might of heard have" 😉

ha I'm disappointed I didn't get any furious bites off that one!

Torres has to be done at some point

 

[Oncy]

Zero

 

[Jack D Rips]

Zero. Did nothing for me to remember him by.

 

[Mersey86]

Auxerre goal was nice but my favourite memory is when he scored the second goal in front of the Kop in April 1992 as we beat United 2-0 and effectively handed the league title to Leeds. To hear all 4 sides of the ground belting out (slightly out of synch, but the better for that) - "You lost the league ... on Merseyside, you lost the league on Merseyside, you lost the league on the Mersey, you lost the league on Merseyside" - that is a memory which never fails to bring a smile to my face.
I always admired him as a Villa player, but by the time we got him his best days were gone.

 

[localny]

Neither really. Didn't deliver, but didn't disappoint either.

I actually dealt with him through work for about a year or two. One of the nicer, more humble footballers to deal with.A real pleasure actually.

 

[gene hughes]

Zero

 

[Spionkop69]

There's nothing much worth saying about Walters - he couldn't even be considered some kind of cult hero - but that game against Auxerre was interesting because it shows just how much football's changed in the 20 years since. The crowd that night for a major European match (equivalent of a CL game now) was barely more than 20k: can you remotely imagine that now? And with prices perhaps 3 times higher, too.

And yet it was one of the noisiest nights Anfield has ever seen.

For that goal alone, he is a hero.

 

[doctor_mac]

He's not even making the Hero detector twitch the slightest bit. And I've checked the batteries. ZERO.

 

[Mojo]

Didn't he score in the FA Cup final that Rushie scored his 5th FA Cup Final goal?

 

[Richey]

Didn't he score in the FA Cup final that Rushie scored his 5th FA Cup Final goal?

That was Michael Thomas.

 

[Red Astaire]

Poor Mark Walters. No love from 6CM's massive. The decision it seems is a resounding Zero!

 

[Richey]

Poor Nicky Tanner - reportedly a decent lad who did his best, but in my considered opinion the worst Liverpool player I've seen in my fifty-plus years supporting LFC. Wasn't there a rumour that we were actually after someone else and signed him by mistake? His signing was greeted with complete and utter amazement in Bristol when we signed him from Rovers - even the Rovers supporters I knew considered him barely a pub team player.
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Yes, the rumoured real target was Steve Yates I think. Mind you, he hardly turned into a superstar either.

Tanner was rubbish. Not sure he was the WORST I have seen, but he would certainly be in a Worst XI

 

[Red Astaire]

Sean Dundee? He's got to make the XI - I feel that debate has been done several times before though. 😉

 

[Richey]

Sean Dundee? He's got to make the XI - I feel that debate has been done several times before though. 😉

It has, yes. And yes, of course he would! I don't think it would be worth a Hero or Zero thread for any of the following:

Dundee, Tanner, Itandje, Konchesky, Carter, Piechnik, Kozma, Stewart, Dicks and a probably plenty of others.

 

[Spionkop69]

Sean Dundee? He's got to make the XI - I feel that debate has been done several times before though. 😉

Tanner is the first name on the team sheet. Followed by Jimmy Carter, Sean Dundee, Erik Meijer, Salif Diao, Mark Kennedy, Torben Piechnik, Julian Dicks, hang on I'm pretty much doing Souness' job! Ok not all of it but you get my drift.

Oh and Walters = hero in my eyes! No one will take away that night v Auxerre, was one of my best nights at Anfield.

 

[Red Astaire]

Nice man - I forgot Jimmy Carter. Fuck me he was shit!

 

[Molbystwin]

My first ever Anfield experience.... and i was fucking shell shocked at the noise... just a truly incredible buzz, better than the first Newcastle 4-3 win... I genuinely feel sorry for those who never got to experience the standing Kop when it went mental like that....

Ive been to some earth shaking games in the all seater version of Anfield but still... It was just fucking mental....