A Game of Three Halves: The Official Kenny Swain Biography

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Next, Kenny was signed by Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest, and he now paints an evocative personal picture of the most charismatic and controversial manager in English football history. 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. He played in every game during the 1986/7 promotion year and was an almost ever present for the first year back in the top flight. 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.

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.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 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. 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. From 2004 he had 12 years as head of England Under-16s followed by a year and a half in as assistant coach to John Peacock with the Under-17s team. 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.

We assist them in setting their prints free for future generations to access and appreciate them and their historical value. 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. Since the photos are old press photographs they may have scratches, lines, or other wears of time, which just underlines the authenticity and age of the photos.With the Under-17s, they were involved with two World Cups and two European Championship successes in 2010 and 2014. 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.

Press photos have been available to the public for just a few years, and similar to baseball cards, they have attracted investors and collectors. 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.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. 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, 5ft 11 ins, was a striker in those days and he enjoyed a good partnership with Steve Finnieston.