Ninety-three England caps, two international finals, six Premier League titles, two FA Cups and a Champions League winner’s medal. Neymar and Eden Hazard both called him their toughest opponent. Four PFA team of the year nominations and one for the Fifpro World XI. He was, for six or seven years, truly elite.
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Read MoreThere were mistakes and missteps against Crystal Palace and Liverpool and Juventus. Before that, there was a lowlight compilation assigning blame for most of the Euro 2024 goals England conceded to Walker, before he was somehow named in the official team of the tournament. Manchester City have won just two of the 11 matches he has started this season, and 11 of the other 17.
And that would probably be that, if he were anyone else. He went on too long, as greats so often do. Pep Guardiola perhaps did more harm than good in convincing him not to join Bayern Munich over sushi in 2023.
Especially when that influencer, Lauryn Goodman, starts a podcast about the struggles of raising those children with an absent father in the public eye. She also invited a newspaper reporter to follow her around England’s Euro 2024 match against Denmark, reportedly the first time her four-year-old son had watched his father play football.
Then there are the two sex workers invited to his home during lockdown, which he apologised for, and the video appearing to show him flashing people in a bar.
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Read MoreIf you want a fair guide of how Walker will be remembered – what his legacy will be in English football – Ashley Cole provides a decent template.
But even 15 years after Cole’s divorce, after the public penitence and transformation to a bearded, buttoned-up backroom coach, the legacy of his footballing success and private failings are still intertwined.
And so now to Italy, which the author Guia Soncini once called “a republic founded on adultery”. Depending on who is telling the story, this is either a fresh start for Walker as he navigates a potential £27m divorce, or a final chance for his marriage to wife Annie Kilner.
The two are often treated as totally separate, yet they clearly aren’t: as Walker’s life has collapsed in on itself, so has his career.
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