A Game of Three Halves: The Official Kenny Swain Biography

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The value of original Press Photos prints has been steadily increasing in value and is expected to to continue doing so. We've detected that you are using AdBlock Plus or some other adblocking software which is preventing the page from fully loading. I can only think that the manager Tony Barton was under pressure to drop the wage bill and that was why Kenny went.

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. 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. Sir Trevor Brooking, as the FA’s Director of Football Development, said that Kenny was a key figure in helping to achieve the new structure at St. 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. Today, Kenny works in the England set-up, heading up the FA's talent ID programme, and has helped develop players such as Michael Owen, Joe Cole and Danny Welbeck.George’s Park and by talking to the clubs over a few years was instrumental in better access to players. 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. 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. 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 left Villa in 1982 and had spells with Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth and finally Crewe Alexandra.Kenny, who was born in Birkenhead, made his league debut for Chelsea in 1974 and his best season was 1976-77 when he helped the young side gain promotion back to the old first division. One of Aston Villa’s European Cup heroes Kenny Swain these days works for the Premier League and still lives in Warwickshire. 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.