Swanny had two spells with the Clarets, we signed him from Plymouth, sold him to Stan at Bury before Stan brought him back shortly after taking over as Burnley manager. He made just 68 league appearances for us, with injury cruelly restricting him during his second spell and shortly after leaving for
By the time he joined us in the summer of 1995, as a replacement for the departed Steve Davis, he had settled into a role in the centre of defence, and that’s where he played his football for us on both occasions he was with the club.
Before
Swanny made over 400 league appearances in total and during his career he was sold for transfer fees totalling over a million, both us and
He was a popular player with the Clarets, certainly in his first couple of years and also captained the side on many occasions.