the FA Cup final, Walker scoring 3 in 6 games, but disappointment this time as they lost 2-0 to Newcastle United at Wembley. Walker scored 21 goals in the 1925-26 season, the fourth and final time he would score over twenty league goals. He became Aston Villa’s captain in 1926, leading the team for five years before handing it over to Alec Talbot in 1931. He scored 10 in 1927-28 but the next season saw him net 19 times in 36 league appearances. The following season he failed to reach double figures, scoring only 8 times. The 1930-31 season saw Walker come close to leading Aston Villa becoming English champions, finishing second in the league, scoring a record total of goals, but losing out to a tighter Arsenal defence. Villa scored 128 goals, Arsenal scored 127 but Villa conceded 78. Costly away defeats left the Villains seven points adrift of the Gunners. 33 year old Walker contributed with 15 goals that season, adding to the 49 scored by Pongo Waring and Eric Houghton’s 30. Walker again came close to a league title with Villa, again finishing second to Arsenal, this time by four points in 1932-33. Away form the difference again as Villa managed only twenty points and thirty two goals away from Villa Park, from their twenty one matches. That season would be Walkers last; he had scored 5 goals in 30 league games. He played in five matches the next season before deciding to retire in September 1933 and by December that year had become manager of Sheffield Wednesday. A one-club man, Walker made 531 appearances for Villa, scoring 244 goals between 1920 and 1934. He scored 214 goals in 478 matches in the league, that ranks him 17th in the all time top flight league scorers in England. He finished his league career only a goal behind Harry Hampton (215), however still to this day; he is Aston Villa's all-time top goalscorer, beating Hampton’s 242. Walker was capped 18 times by England, scoring nine goals. He scored on his debut as England beat Ireland 2-0 at Roker Park, Sunderland in October 1920. He has the distinction of scoring England's first ever goal at Wembley, although he wasn’t the first Englishman to score that day. Scotland were the first visitors for an international match at Wembley on 12 April 1924, and led at half time through an Eddie