Bit of a leftfield one, maybe, but my team Sheffield Wednesday were pretty much singlehandedly kept in the Prem a couple of years longer than they had any right to be by Des Walker.
Post the Di Canio/Carbone era, we were truly abysmal and had barely any prem quality players in the squad. I had a season ticket at the time, and the number of points Des singlehandedly saved us was easily in excess of the amount of points we finished above relegation.
Finally, in 2001, his age caught up with him, and we were deservedly relegated. The rest is history, as they say.
Bit of a leftfield one, maybe, but my team Sheffield Wednesday were pretty much singlehandedly kept in the Prem a couple of years longer than they had any right to be by Des Walker.
Post the Di Canio/Carbone era, we were truly abysmal and had barely any prem quality players in the squad. I had a season ticket at the time, and the number of points Des singlehandedly saved us was easily in excess of the amount of points we finished above relegation.
Finally, in 2001, his age caught up with him, and we were deservedly relegated. The rest is history, as they say.