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Walker was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire.
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William Walker
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He is considered by many to be the greatest football player to ever play for Aston Villa Football Club and one of the greatest players to have played for England. He joined Villa in 1914 and stayed at Villa Park for the rest of his playing career, retiring in 1934. He made 531 appearances for Villa between 1914 and 1934, scoring 244 goals, of which 214 came in 478 league matches.
He remains Aston Villa"s all-time top goalscorer to this day.
Walker is the only-player to have scored a hat-trick of penalty kicks in a Football League game, doing so against Bradford City in November 1921. Walker played for England 18 times, scoring 9 goals.
He became manager of Sheffield Wednesday in December 1933, and he successfully steered them away from relegation. He was also the first Englishman to score at Wembley, when he scored against Scotland on 12 April 1924.
He died in November 1964, four years after retiring as Nottingham Forest manager.
In March 2003, nearly 40 years after his death, he was named by British Broadcasting Corporation Sport as the former player Aston Villa needed in their modern day team – who were struggling for goals that season and narrowly avoided relegation from the FA Premier League (top flight of English football). Honours as player = Aston Villa Football League First Division Runners-up: 1931, 1933 Runners-up: 1924 Honours as manager = Sheffield Wednesday = Nottingham Forest.
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