AS prolific striker partnerships go, Wanderers fans have not seen many that can rival the one shared by Andy Walker and John McGinlay.

The Scottish pair weighed in with an incredible 55 goals during that 1992/93 promotion season but two in particular will be forever recalled by those Bolton fans at Anfield 20 years ago.

McGinlay set the cup shock in motion with a gravity-defying header from David Lee’s perfectly-executed cross from the left.

Walker then put the icing on the cake with a rare header of his own, teed-up by another well crafted centre from his strike partner, who had evaded Stig Inge Bjornebye on the right flank.

It was the kind of exchange Wanderers fans had grown accustomed to that year – with Walker’s Anfield strike taking him to 18 in all competitions.

He finished with 33, but the Glaswegian modestly deflects the fact that he had been the first player since Nat Lofthouse to crack the 30-goal marker.

“A lot of those goals were about the players around me,” he told The Bolton News. “I was never a player who was going to do it on my own.

“My good work was done in the penalty box, not really outside it. But John would be everywhere. He was such a workhorse.

“The goal I scored that night at Liverpool really sums it up – he did all the running and I popped the ball in the net.

“We didn’t really need to talk a lot on the pitch, we both sort of knew what each other would be doing and where we would be.

“I had a similar relationship with Frank McAvennie at Celtic, who is the only other striker I have had anything like the same success with, and it’s almost telepathic.

“What we did out there wasn’t something we spoke about. It wasn’t a case of ‘if I’m there, then you fill in there.’ “But when we got out on the pitch it would click. That’s why I really enjoyed playing alongside John.”

Walker’s tally that season may have been slightly higher had he not picked up a serious knee injury in mid-April that kept him out of action for more than nine months until he returned to play a part in another FA Cup giant-killing against Arsenal.

Like most of the side involved that night, the footballer-turned-Sky pundit acknowledged David Lee’s virtuoso display on the night.

“He was the man,” Walker said. “Some of the stuff he served up was just magic.”

Time certainly hasn’t faded the 43-year-old’s memory of the game and he effortlessly name-checked every player involved at Anfield.

Another memory that will live with Walker is the fact that the legendary Kop Stand stayed behind to applaud Wanderers’ players off the pitch despite the desperately disappointing result.

“It was a quite incredible sight,” he said. “They knew we hadn’t just scraped a result, we had played them off the park.

“That result helped to put the club on the map. You felt we were heading in the right direction that season under Bruce Rioch anyway but that then paved the way for some more famous results in the FA Cup for Bolton that proved the Anfield result wasn’t a fluke.”