Derek Walsh

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Derek Walsh
Personnel
Surname Derek Walsh
birthday October 24, 1967
place of birth Hamilton ,  Scotland
size 170 cm
position Midfield , defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1984-1986 Everton FC 1 (0)
1986 Charlton Athletic 0 (0)
1987 Hamilton Academical 2 (0)
1988 Sligo Rovers
1988-1993 Carlisle United 121 (7)
1993 Hamilton Academical 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Derek Walsh (born October 24, 1967 in Hamilton ) is a former Scottish football player . As a midfielder , he began his career with the first division club Everton . There he could not assert himself athletically and only later made a name for itself with 121 league appearances for the fourth division club Carlisle United in lower-class English professional football before he left there in the mid-1990s.

Athletic career

Derek Walsh, whose more than five years older brother Colin began a professional career as a footballer at Nottingham Forest in the early 1980s , was already represented in the extended squad of first division club Everton from October 1984 . There, however, the sporting perspective turned out to be less promising, because only on May 28, 1985 he was represented in the starting XI of the "Toffees" in a sportingly insignificant league game. Everton FC was already established as English champions at this point and as part of a "B-Elf" he played in midfield alongside Jason Danskin , John Morrissey and Neill Rimmer , who had never played in a championship game, and almost logically the game against Luton Town was lost 2-0. Without having received another chance in the first team in the following season 1985/86, Walsh then tried his luck at first division rivals Charlton Athletic . The club from south London had signed Brother Colin at the same time and while he found his luck there in the subsequent ten years, Derek Walsh quickly fell through the grid and the contract was dissolved before the end of the 1986/87 season.

The young midfielder returned to his hometown of Hamilton, where he played two second division games in Scotland in August and September 1987 against FC Clydebank and Meadowbank Thistle and later played for the Sligo Rovers in Irish football . In August 1988, he started another attempt in English professional football and was hired for the fourth division club Carlisle United .

In the team of coach Clive Middlemass Walsh introduced himself on his debut on September 3, 1988 against York City (1: 1) with a goal and with a total of 35 league appearances in the 1988/89 season he made an overall stable impression. However, he was not granted a permanent regular position and after initially frequent appearances in the right midfield, he changed his position from then on. In the following season 1989/90 he helped steadily in the defense and was only in the starting line-up in 21 of 46 championship matches. At the beginning of the 1990/91 season he played the first 19 league games in a row, but then missed a year completely before he returned to a team at the end of December 1991 that ended up in last place and was relegated from the Football League Association averted only through a successful re-election process. In his final 1992/93 season for Carlisle United, Walsh was again a regular between November 1992 and February 1993 before returning to Hamilton. There he played a last professional league game for Hamilton Academical against Airdrieonians FC (0: 4) on August 21, 1993 by substitution .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rothman: Football Yearbook 1987-88, 118
  2. ↑ Rothman: Football Yearbook 1988-89, pp. 532–5
  3. ^ "Match By Match: FAI Cup & League Double 1987/88" (Dundalk FC)
  4. ↑ Rothman: Football Yearbook 1994-95, pp. 708f
personal data
SURNAME Walsh, Derek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton