Christopher Roland Waddle (born 14 December 1960) is an English former professional football player and manager. He had a spell as Burnley manager during the 1997–98 season, but has not returned to coaching since. Largely since retiring he has worked in the media for BBC Radio 5 Live as part of their Premier League and Champions League team. He currently works as a commentator. More about Chris Waddle
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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 in the Premier League he was voted FWA Footballer of the Year for his performances in the 1992-93 season. He also played in the Premier League for Sunderland, in the Scottish Premiership with Falkirk and in the Football League for Bradford City, Burnley and Torquay United. He finished his career in non-League football with Worksop Town, Glapwell and Stocksbridge Park Steels, later whilst in his fifties, he continued to play at semi-professional level for Northern Counties East League side Hallam. 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 total, we tracked 598 items since 01/09/2012. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.
The most expensive item with a signature of Chris Waddle (Paul Gascoigne & Chris Waddle Front Signed England 1990 Home Shirt In Classic Fr) was sold in August 2021 for £344.99 while the cheapest item (Chris Waddle - Newcastle United Autograph) found a new owner for £0.10 in January 2023. The month with the most items sold (21) was May 2020 with an average selling price of £7.50 for an autographed item of Chris Waddle. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in February 2022 with £72.49 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.75 was January 2014. In average, an autographed item from Chris Waddle is worth £8.99.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Chris Waddle were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
Item Title | Price | Store | |
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Chris Waddle Auto 2022 Panini Prizm Tottenham Hotspur, England Autograph | £10.00 | ||
Chris Waddle Auto 2022 Panini Prizm Tottenham Hotspur, England Autograph | £10.60 | ||
Chris Waddle Hand Signed 6x4 Photo Sheffield Wednesday England Autograph + COA | £14.99 | ||
CHRIS WADDLE OLYMPIQUE DE MARSEILLE 10 X 8 Hand SIGNED PHOTO Newcastle England | £9.99 | ||
CHRIS WADDLE OLYMPIQUE DE MARSEILLE 10 X 8 Hand SIGNED PHOTO Newcastle England | £9.99 | ||
Chris Waddle Signed 6x4 Photo Newcastle United England Genuine Autograph + COA | £14.99 | ||
Chris Waddle Signed Newcastle United 1980/82 Season Shirt - Comes With a COA | £125.00 | ||
Chris Waddle Signed White Player T-Shirt In A Framed Presentation. Spurs Legend | £29.99 | ||
Signed 6x4 Chris Waddle Newcastle United Football Photo | £5.99 | ||
Signed Chris Waddle Marseille FC Football Autograph Full Poster England Spurs | £9.99 |
CHRIS WADDLE: Disgraceful Tottenham players need to reimburse the fans after New (04/23/23): You've got to question Tottenham about the pride, the work rate and the honesty. I've been so disappointed. The fans who made the journey rightly booed.
Chris Waddle 'surprised and devastated' after being unceremoniously dropped by B (07/12/21): EXCLUSIVE BY JONATHAN MCEVOY: Chris Waddle, BBC 5 Live's usual go-to pundit for big England games appears to have left the corporation.
Chris Waddle's miss and Gazza's tears on that agonising night in Turin 25 years (03/28/15): England's match in Turin on Tuesday will evoke memories of Italia 90. Even in defeat, the World Cup semi-final against West Germany remains English football’s best moment since 1966.
Ex-England star Chris Waddle’s South Shields date (03/17/15): A FORMER England footballer who played for both the region’s top clubs is heading to South Shields.
11 worst World Cup hairstyles in history: Ronaldo, Chris Waddle, more (01/02/15): Take a look at 11 footballers with the weirdest World Cup 'dos.
Diamond Lights - The Chris Waddle verdict (12/2014): Chris Waddle joined Andy Goldstein on Tuesday to cast his... er.... ears over the new version of 'Diamond Lights'. Waddle, along with his then Tottenham team-mate Glenn Hoddle , reached No.11 in the charts with the original version in 1987.
Marseille's Andre-Pierre Gignac wouldn’t get into Arsenal or Liverpool starting (10/2014): Andre-Pierre Gignac wouldn’t even get into the Arsenal side, according to former Marseille winger Chris Waddle.
John Murray and Chris Waddle are masters on Radio 5 - but should they be used mo (09/2014): Rob Bagchi: John Murray is a master of the lyrical art of football commentary - radio's poets should show the TV team how it's done
Paul Gascoigne: Chris Waddle offers support to football legend by tweeting 'Love (08/2014): Former England star Chris Waddle has tweeted his support to football legend Paul Gascoigne this afternoon. Waddle tweeted a picture of himself and Gazza during an England World Cup game in Italy in 1990.