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. Clubs played for: Chelsea, Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth, West Bromwich Albion, Crewe Alexandra. With our high quality and fast digitizing process, we help newspaper archives in converting their physical prints into digital format.

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His most successful season with the club came in 1976–77, when his strike partnership with Steve Finnieston helped Eddie McCreadie's young side win promotion back to the First Division. 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. You can change your cookie preferences at any time and find out more about our cookie policy by following this link. The defence was never the same because with all due respect to the young lad who came in the experience was obviously not there. Swain, 5ft 11 ins, was a striker in those days and he enjoyed a good partnership with Steve Finnieston.Kenneth Swain (born 28 January 1952) is an English former footballer who played in numerous positions, including striker, midfielder and full back. 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. We assist them in setting their prints free for future generations to access and appreciate them and their historical value. 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.

Swain tried his hand at management with a year at Wigan Athletic and a caretaker role at Grimsby without success. I love being a part of this club, love being captain, love everything this club stands for both on and off the pitch. The FA reported that as part of their talent identification programme he had a major role in the development of players such as Daniel Sturridge, Ross Barkley, Raheem Sterling, Marcus Rashford, Phil Foden, Luke Shaw, Trent Alexander Arnold and many more progressing from the England Under-16 level to the senior national team. I never quite understood why Villa sold him to Nottingham Forest in the October after we won the European Cup.Swain, who will be 72 next Sunday, primarily played full-back but played both midfield and striker positions during his early playing career which began at Wycombe Wanderers in 1973 and finished at Crewe Alexandra in 1992.

However, if you offer a relevant product or service that may interest our readership, we are open to bribery and corruption. Between 2002 and 2004, Swain was Director of Football at Thomas Telford School and scouted for a number of clubs. Swain was right back in the Villa team that won the League title – the old first division before the Premier League arrived – in the 1980-81 season under manager Ron Saunders and the side that won the European Cup in 1982 under Tony Barton.He wasn't supposed to play but we were short of players so he and a lad named as Satchel played who is now a Sir. The captain of the League Championship and European Cup team was midfielder Dennis Mortimer, who tells me: “The move was visionary by the manager. Comics used to feature snotty-nosed kids from back-to-backs taking on and, against all odds, beating posh Henrys who pronounced their 'aitches' and came from homes with inside lavatories. 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.