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Chris Waddle Christopher Roland Waddle ( born 14 December 1960 ) is an English former professional football player and manager . He currently works as a commentator . Nicknamed Magic Chris , football journalist Luke Ginnell wrote that Waddle was widely acknowledged as one of the finest attacking midfielders in Europe . During his professional career , which lasted from 1978 to 1998 , he played for several clubs , including Newcastle United , Tottenham Hotspur , Olympique de Marseille and Sheffield Wednesday . In 1989 , his transfer from Tottenham to Marseille for £4.5 million made him the third most valuable player in the world , and he won three successive Ligue 1 titles with the club and played in the 1991 European Cup Final . While playing for Wednesday he was voted FWA Footballer of the Year for his performances in the 1992-93 season . Waddle earned 62 caps for England between 1985 and 1991 , which included being a member of the teams which reached the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup and the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup . He also played for England at UEFA Euro 1988 . In his fifties , he continued to play at semi-professional level for Northern Counties East League side Hallam , and is still being contracted to BBC Radio Five Live as part of their Premier League and Champions League team . Club career . Early career . Waddle began his footballing career with Pelaw Juniors , moving on to Whitehouse SC , Mount Pleasant SC , HMH Printing , Pelaw SC , Leam Lane SC and Clarke Chapman before joining Tow Law Town before the start of the 1978–79 season . Newcastle United . While working in food processing ( a seasoning factory ) , Waddle had unsuccessful trials with Sunderland and Coventry City . He joined Newcastle United as a 19-year-old in July 1980 for £1,000 . He made his Second Division debut for them in a 1–0 home win over Shrewsbury Town on 22 October 1980 and quickly established himself as an effective attacking midfielder , playing alongside Kevin Keegan and Peter Beardsley as Newcastle won promotion to the First Division at the end of 1983–84 season . In one of his first games in the top flight , against Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road on 22 September 1984 , Waddle scored a first half hat-trick for Newcastle , who had a 4–0 lead at half time . However , a fight back by QPR saw the game end 5–5 . Tottenham Hotspur . After 46 goals in 170 league games for Newcastle , Waddle joined Tottenham Hotspur on 1 July 1985 for a fee of £590,000 ( decided by a transfer tribunal ) . He scored twice on his league debut , a 4–0 home win over Watford on the opening day of the league season , although Spurs had a disappointing season where they finished tenth a year after finishing third , resulting in the dismissal of Peter Shreeves as manager and the appointment of David Pleat from Luton Town as his successor . He won an FA Cup runners-up medal in 1987 when Spurs were beaten by Coventry , while they also finished third in the League and got to the semi-finals of the League Cup . Marseille . On 1 July 1989 , after scoring 33 times in 138 league appearances for Tottenham , Waddle moved to French club Olympique de Marseille for a fee of £4.5 million ; the third highest sum ever paid for a footballer at the time . During his time in France the club were French champions three times ( 1990 , 1991 and 1992 ) . They were also on the losing side to Red Star Belgrade in the 1991 European Cup Final . In 1991–92 , he also played alongside fellow England midfielder Trevor Steven , who spent a year in France after signing from Rangers , only to return to Scotland after a single season there . During his years at Marseille , the fans gave him the nickname Magic Chris . He was known as the successor to former Marseille player Roger Magnusson . Waddle was also voted second best OM player of the century behind Jean Pierre Papin for the clubs century anniversary in 1998 . Waddle and Marseille reached the 1991 European Cup Final . Although he did not take a penalty , Waddle ended up on the losing side in a penalty shoot-out once again , after the game had ended 0–0 in normal time . Sheffield Wednesday . Waddle returned to England in July 1992 in a £1 million move to Sheffield Wednesday , then managed by Trevor Francis . The club reached both domestic cup finals in the 1992–93 season ( losing both to Arsenal – Waddle scored Wednesdays goal in the FA Cup final replay ) and Waddle was voted the Football Writers Association Footballer of the Year in 1993 . He helped Wednesday reach the semi-finals of the League Cup in the 1993–94 season , but this latest attempt at winning silverware was foiled by Manchester United , and the next two seasons brought bottom-half finishes in the league for Wednesday , with Francis being axed in 1995 and Waddles former Tottenham manager David Pleat taking over . In January 1996 , Kevin Keegan attempted to re-sign Waddle for Newcastle United as cover for David Ginola during a suspension , but Keegans £500,000 bid to re-sign the player who had played alongside him in the Newcastle team more than a decade earlier was rejected and Keegan was unwilling to meet manager David Pleats £1million asking price for the 35-year-old . Around this time , Celtic , Leeds United and Sunderland were also interested in signing Waddle , but none of these transfers ever happened . Burnley also expressed an interest in appointing him as their player-manager – a role he would finally take the following year – but Waddle saw out the season at Hillsborough . Waddles later career at Hillsborough was marred by injuries and he was released 5 games into the 1996–97 season ( when the Owls were top of the premiership and having taken young sensation Ritchie Humphreys – 4 goals in 5 games – under his wing ) after being frozen out of the team by David Pleat , having played 109 games and scored 10 goals with many more assists . Falkirk and Bradford City . Waddle joined Falkirk , in the Scottish First Division , in September 1996 , but returned south of the border to play for Division One strugglers Bradford City the following month . Although short , his time at City was a success and he was a firm fans favourite . In a match away to Huddersfield Town he scored direct from a corner in a 3–3 draw live on TV . He also scored a goal in a 3-2 FA Cup win against Everton at Goodison Park which came second in the February 1997 Match of the Day Goal of the Month . His efforts with Bradford contributed to their survival in Division One , although he did not complete the season there . Sunderland . Waddles moved to Sunderland , the side he had supported as a boy , for a nominal fee of £75,000 in March 1997 , but could not help Sunderland from being relegated from the Premier League at the end of the season , despite scoring once against Everton and providing the assist for all other Sunderland goals scored in that period . Burnley . In May 1997 Waddle was appointed player-manager of Burnley , moving from Roker Park on a free transfer . Burnley had a disappointing season , only just avoiding relegation at the end of the season . He scored once during his spell at Burnley , the goal coming in a 2–2 draw with Bournemouth in October 1997 . Torquay United . Waddle left Burnley in the summer , and in September 1998 joined Torquay United . He played just 7 times for Torquay , before returning to Sheffield Wednesday as a coach . He was appointed reserve team coach in July 1999 , and played for a local pub side , but left in June 2000 on the appointment of Paul Jewell as manager , just after the club ( now blighted by financial problems ) suffered relegation from the Premier League . Non-league career . Following his departure from Torquay United , Waddle enjoyed two seasons with non-league Worksop Town making 60 appearances and scoring 3 goals . His most notable appearance was in a 12–0 Northern Premier League record win against Frickley Athletic . He also had a brief spell with Glapwell and one appearance for Stocksbridge Park Steels in the Northern Premier League First Division , continuing his playing career at non-league level into his early forties . Hallam . Having played at amateur level in the Sheffield Wragg Over-40s league for Hallam during 2012–13 season he came out of retirement after 11 years on the sidelines and signed for Sheffield based Non-league side Hallam on 22 July 2013 . He made his debut against Chesterfield in a pre-season friendly , coming on as a substitute at half time . The game ended in a 6–2 defeat for Hallam FC . Waddle signed a one-year deal on 1 August 2013 , committing to Hallam for the 2013–14 season promotion push while remaining part of the ESPN commentary team . International career . Despite being in his 25th year , he was called up for the England Under-21 side and made his full squad debut against Ireland in March 1985 . On 26 March 1985 , when still a Newcastle player , Waddle was capped at senior level by Bobby Robsons England for the first time in a 2–1 win over Republic of Ireland . He soon became a regular member of the England squad and on 16 October that year he scored his first England goal , on his tenth international appearance , in a 5–0 win over Turkey . Waddle was in Englands squad at the 1986 and 1990 FIFA World Cup as well as UEFA Euro 1988 . Although England were eliminated at the group stages of Euro 88 after losing all three games , they did reach the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup and the semi-finals in 1990 , where Waddle missed the decisive penalty in the latter as he put it inches over the bar in the shootout defeat to West Germany . He says he only took the fifth penalty because Paul Gascoigne , who had been suspended from playing in the next game if England progressed , was too upset to take it . He subsequently blamed a chance meeting with Uri Geller and Michael Jackson prior to the tournament for missing his penalty . Waddles performances in the 1990 World Cup were described as superb by Rob Bagchi , writing for The Guardian in 2010 . He won the last of his 62 England caps on 16 October 1991 in a 1–0 win over Turkey , more than six years after making his international debut , and having rarely missed an England game since then . He had scored six goals for England , the last against Scotland on 27 May 1989 . When Terry Venables became the new England manager at the beginning of 1994 , he was keen to include Waddle in the squad for his first game against Denmark . However , Waddle was injured at the time and unavailable for selection . Media career . In 1987 , Waddle recorded the song Diamond Lights in a duet with Spurs and England teammate Glenn Hoddle . The song reached number 12 in the UK Singles Chart in May of that year and the pair appeared on Top Of The Pops . Whilst at Marseille he joined teammate Basile Boli in recording a song entitled Weve Got a Feeling . Despite spending the 1997–98 season as a manager , Waddle never returned to the coaching side of the game following his retirement and became a TV football pundit , commentator and sports newspaper writer . He previously worked for Setanta Sports and ESPN , he currently works as an analyst for BBC Radio Five Lives Premier League football coverage . Waddle appeared on BBC Radio Five Live as a summariser at Premier League matches and also writes a column in The Sun newspaper . Waddle signed a deal with Setanta Sports to commentate on all England away matches in 2008–09 . Waddle then went on to co-commentate for ESPNs English Premier League football coverage and is a pundit on Showsports Arabia , covering the English Premier League , from the studio in Dubai , UAE . In 2003 , Thierry Henry named Waddle in his all-time Dream Team Line up . Following Englands heavy defeat to Germany in the second round of the 2010 FIFA World Cup , Waddle criticised the English Football Association , claiming : The FA sit on their backsides and do nothing tournament after tournament after tournament . Why dont they listen ? Why dont they look at other countries and ask how do they keep producing talent ? We coach talent out of players .. . We lack so many ideas and it is so frustrating . The amount of money in our league is frightening and all we do is waste it on rubbish ideas .. . We kid ourselves thinking we have a chance if we keep the tempo up . We can only play one way and it is poor . You cant go on playing football and hoping to win trophies playing a hundred miles an hour and putting teams under pressure for 90 minutes . Youve got to be able to play slow , slow , quick and we cant do it . Personal life . Waddle has one daughter , Brooke , and a son , Jack . On 29 April 2012 , Jack was given a one-year first-team contract at Chesterfield . His cousin , Alan Waddle , played league football for Halifax Town , Liverpool , Leicester City , Swansea City , Newport County , Mansfield Town , Hartlepool United and Peterborough United . In 2005 , he was arrested following claims he was involved in a brawl in a pub in Dore , Sheffield . No charges were brought due to lack of evidence . In popular culture . Waddle was a key part of the pool of popular culture references used in the BBC comedy The Fast Show . References to , and photographs of , Waddle made regular appearances during the Chanel 9 news segment of the show . Honours . Marseille - Division 1 : 1989–90 , 1990–91 , 1991–92 - European Cup runner-up : 1990–91 Tottenham Hotspur - FA Cup runner-up : 1986–87 Sheffield Wednesday - FA Cup runner-up : 1992–93 - Football League Cup runner-up : 1992–93 England - FIFA World Cup fourth place : 1990 Individual - First Division PFA Team of the Year : 1984–85 , 1988–89 - Tottenham Hotspur Player of the Year : 1988 - Onze dArgent : 1991 - FIFA XI : 1991 - FWA Footballer of the Year : 1992–93 ( Sheffield Wednesday ) - Premier League Player of the Month : January 1995 - The Dream Team 110 years of OM : 2010 External links . - Chris Waddle photos & stats at Sporting Heroes.net