Des Walker

But I also, I was thinking about, because England looks so vulnerable defensively.

We spoke a bit about options they had, and there was one that I'd forgotten completely, which is Dez Walker, who makes his debut in the first game after this tournament.

So he wasn't quite there, but I was looking up the season.

Dez Walker has put his 22 and has played three full seasons at Forest.

But I thought that was interesting because when people talk after this, because...

Ireland's result officially put England out, so they were gone by the evening.

And so the post-mortem begins, and people are talking about who's the new generation.

They mention Paul Gascoigne, they mention Gary Pallister, who actually wasn't really, even though he's a great player.

I went through weeks at Nottingham Forest saying goodbye to all the trialists, basically saying they were looking to sign me, firstly, man, do you like me, all this stuff.

I was up against Dez Walker's son.

Dez Walker's obviously a legend of Nottingham Forest.

His photos all around the training ground.

I didn't know this.

After I got released and went and spoke to a few people, they're like, just so you know, he was up against Tyler Walker for that contract.

And Tyler Walker's obviously Dez Walker's son.

He ended up signing.

Our next guest, Stan Collymore, was with a lot of fellow famous faces from the world of Nottingham Forest last night.

Posted a lovely picture of him and Des Walker and Viv Anderson.

Hi, Stan.

Hi, Paul, Andy.

So there was Viv Anderson.

There was Rob Earnshaw.

There was Des Walker, myself, and Mark Crossley.

So an half-decent five-a-side team.

I think he always showed up when City needed something like the title winning goal what he scored like 35 yards out the header against Man United mentioned it before getting a goal in the derby so yeah for me he definitely deserves a place and that's why he gets in my top 5

I think like Josh has said some of it I think as well like Adams is one of the first centre backs of that era who was also like a footballer that you could play out the defences and was comfortable on the ball And in that period in the 90s, you had a lot of centre-backs apart from like, Des Walker was one who was really fast, I remember.

But apart from that, a lot of centre-backs were just thugs.

Ruddocks.

Er, so this, this, this, uh, this wa- was a very good, uh, very good timing because, uh, in Sheffield still, uh, i- we talking about David Walker p- was-

Yeah, Des Walker, yeah

... we-

Des Walker.

With Des Walker, he was another good player.

He u- he used to play in, in Italy too, and then, uh, he helped me a lot because he speak Italian too.

So when I don't understand, uh, something, he helped me.

Because when you get into the higher level...

Des Walker, Paul Parker, those guys, they're tackling you.

Steve Bruce, you won't even get...

They'll take it off you.

Ultimately

... and then they'll, they'll talk about it, and they'll say, "Well, Liverpool, ya- yada, yada, yada, the Moores family, um, Walker at Blackburn," and all that.

And the big fat fucking difference that none of them can seem to get-

Mm

Um-

Sensational legend

... you beat Des Walker.

Wow.

Who's on the front of that one? Yeah, Dez Blarney.

Dez Walker.

Is it Dez Walker? Yeah.

My old boy, Dez.

Is that John Fashlow? Oh my God, there's three

players going up for it.

No. Stuart Pearce, is it? I think it's Stuart Pearce, Dez Walker and John Fashner, it looks like.

Yeah, and is that Craig Burley? No, Alex McLeish.

It's called the Garuda Select.

It was a under 17 team of Indonesians that was training in Birmingham at the time, and Dennis was the coach, along with Des Walker.

And when they were broadcast, the, the, the, their matches was broadcasted Indonesia, the ratings was very close to the Premier League, sometimes exceeded it.

So we thought, "Hey, maybe if we buy I- an Italian team and relocate everything there, we don't have to pay rent to the university and so on.