A Game of Three Halves: The Official Kenny Swain Biography

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He left Villa in 1982 and had spells with Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth and finally Crewe Alexandra.

With our high quality and fast digitizing process, we help newspaper archives in converting their physical prints into digital format. Kenny was obviously an excellent footballer, but perhaps more importantly he was a modest, funny nice guy.He achieved success later in his career, adding to the league title and European Cup winner's medals at Aston Villa with a Second Division runners-up medal at Portsmouth in 1987, and achieving promotion in third place with Crewe from the Fourth Division in 1989. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Swain, Kenny When Kenny was at Chelsea a good many years ago I had the privilege to play with him for a local Sunday league side for just one game. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

He was in the Villa team that shared the 1981 Charity Shield and was twice voted into the Professional Footballers First Division team of the season: 1980-1 and 1982. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The left hand column shows League appearances and goals scored for each club as well as the League record of the club for each season the player was there. He was captain and an integral part of the team until his final months and his departure left, according to Swain, a ‘sour taste’ in his mouth. A Game Of Three Halves tells the tale of the man who quit teaching to sign for Chelsea, the glamour club of the 1970s, and then moved on to Aston Villa where - having converted from striker to a full-back role - he played an integral part in winning the First Division championship and the 1982 European Cup win.

We've detected that you are using AdBlock Plus or some other adblocking software which is preventing the page from fully loading. Alongside the date of the transfer, the clubs involved and the transfer fee, it also displays the market value of the player at the time of the transfer. Clubs played for: Chelsea, Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth, West Bromwich Albion, Crewe Alexandra.He did not talk to Ball for 15 years but hearing about Ball’s wife having cancer he phoned Alan and they had a very good chat for an hour – something Swain has always been pleased about, especially as his hero as a player Ball had a premature death in 2007.

We make sure that all our signed items are either collected at our own signing sessions or through a limited number of trusted partners who we've dealt with over many years and are respected within the industry. Swain tried his hand at management with a year at Wigan Athletic and a caretaker role at Grimsby without success. Swain, 5ft 11 ins, was a striker in those days and he enjoyed a good partnership with Steve Finnieston. Biography: Swain had played for Chelsea and won the league championship and European Cup with Aston Villa before joining Pompey in 1983. Kenneth Swain (born 28 January 1952) is an English former footballer who played in numerous positions, including striker, midfielder and full back.You can change your cookie preferences at any time and find out more about our cookie policy by following this link. A versatile player, Kenny Swain has played in various positions but reached the highest level when he played as right back at Aston Villa, where he won the 1980/81 First Division and 1981/82 European Cup. Press photos have been available to the public for just a few years, and similar to baseball cards, they have attracted investors and collectors. We make sure that all our signed items are either collected at our own signing sessions or through a limited number of trusted partners who we've dealt with over many years and are respected within the industry. With the Under-17s, they were involved with two World Cups and two European Championship successes in 2010 and 2014.