Walters blasts Bruce for his ‘blatant lies’ about bathtub brawl
MARK WALTERS has launched a scathing attack on Bruce Grobbelaar by insisting the former Liverpool goalkeeper has told blatant lies in his new book.
Former Rangers star Walters, who spent three seasons at Anfield with the Zimbabwean, is outraged that Grobbelaar has made up stories in his autobiography ‘Life in a Jungle’.
The often-eccentric keeper claims he tried to nearly drown Walters in the bath in the Liverpool dressing room after a derby defeat by Everton in which the winger turned his back on the ball to allow Mark Ward to score.
Walters, who has just released his own life story ‘Winging It’, says the whole thing has been fabricated and he’s furious.
He said: “It’s really strange. I don’t know why he has told an untruth. There were loads of people there so they know what happened.
“It’s a blatant lie, really. But he is renowned for embellishing the truth.
“I don’t know what his motives are, but it’s really disappointing.
“I’m angry. Why would someone just make something up like that? It’s ridiculous.”
The passage in Grobbelaar’s book centres on a Merseyside derby at Goodison Park on September 18, 1993.
Steve McManaman made a mess of clearing an Everton corner and Ward shot past Grobbelaar to put the Toffees ahead.
The Liverpool keeper then got involved in a shoving match with McManaman and ref David Elleray nearly sent both of them off.
Grobbelaar goes on to accuse Walters of turning his back on the Ward shot and that he sought him out after the game.
He says: “Someone told me he was in the bath so I ran in there took his head, grabbing his hair and pulling his head under the water.
“I sat on his head, I tried to drown him. I was that angry. My teammates pulled me off him and after a little bit of a tete a tete we eventually calmed down.”
Walters said: “The thing is, the incident during the game is there on YouTube so you can see clearly that his first accusation that I turned my back on Mark Ward is nonsense.
“And I can categorically state that he didn’t approach me at all after the game – never mind assault me in the bath.
“If he had tried to do that he would have regretted it.
“The man is a fantasist – maybe he is trying to sell a few more books by making up stories like this one.
“I find it all very bizarre and very disappointing.”