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. 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. Swain, Kenny I went to Ruffwood School and teacher training college with Kenny and was always one year ahead of him, consequently, I only got to know him when he joined the 6th form and our time at Shoreditch College. The underprivileged in the blue corner, only now the support comes from tower blocks, against the privileged in the claret pyjama tops, followed by Royal Sutton Coldfield and Four Oaks. I never quite understood why Villa sold him to Nottingham Forest in the October after we won the European Cup.

The captain of the League Championship and European Cup team was midfielder Dennis Mortimer, who tells me: “The move was visionary by the manager. He also assisted at the Under-18 and Under-19 levels and was part of the Under-20 World Cup finals in Egypt in 2009. Swain did not win any honours at Forest but in 1985 he switched to Portsmouth for three years and added a Second Division runners-up medal in 1987 before achieving promotion with a third-place spot with Crewe in 1989. With our high quality and fast digitizing process, we help newspaper archives in converting their physical prints into digital format.Saunders also signed another striker, Swain, from Chelsea, and moved him to right back where he became a pivotal member of Villa’s greatest team. 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, 5ft 11 ins, was a striker in those days and he enjoyed a good partnership with Steve Finnieston. 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. However, if you offer a relevant product or service that may interest our readership, we are open to bribery and corruption.I love being a part of this club, love being captain, love everything this club stands for both on and off the pitch. The defence was never the same because with all due respect to the young lad who came in the experience was obviously not there. oth = other competitive matches such as Full Members Cup, Charity/Community Shield, Fifa World Club Cup. 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.

With Villa, Swain was switched to full-back and was a part of the team which won the league championship and European Cup in consecutive seasons. He also managed the England under-16s for a decade between 2004–2014 and was as an assistant coach for the England national under-17 football team between 2012–13. With the Under-17s, they were involved with two World Cups and two European Championship successes in 2010 and 2014. 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. 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.Portsmouth and Crewe were the last clubs to figure in an illustrious career that saw him play more than 100 games for five different clubs. 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. 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. 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. Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too.

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. Fans are invited to come along and meet Kenny, who will be happy to sign copies and talk about an illustrious career which included a five-year spell with Villa. These days, Kenny Swain has just taken over from Ken McNaught as the former Aston Villa Players with the club.All our press photos are LIMITED ARCHIVE ORIGINALS - they are the actual prints that were used by the newspapers, they are not reprints or digital prints produced by us. He left Villa in 1982 and had spells with Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth and finally Crewe Alexandra. The value of original Press Photos prints has been steadily increasing in value and is expected to to continue doing so. Swain began his professional career with Londoners Chelsea, signing from Wycombe Wanderers in the summer of 1973.