Peter Swan (footballer born 1936)
Peter Swan ( born October 8, 1936 in South Elmsall ) is a former English footballer. As a central defender, he counted many years at Sheffield Wednesday and the beginning of the 1960s in the England team to the regular players before the career in 1964 due to its significant involvement in a betting scandal came to an abrupt end. After his conviction, the English Football Federation detained initially for life, before he was given the opportunity to take a short comeback after being pardoned in 1972.
Sports career
From Sheffield to the English national team (1953-1964)
Born not far from Pontefract South Elmsall in West Yorkshire Swan came as one of seven children - all sons - to the world. Soon after, the family moved to the nearby Doncaster Armthorpe, where Swan learned to play football at the Armthorpe Secondary Modern School. At his side, Alan Finney grew up, a later player in Sheffield. Originally it was used on the right wing, but soon he trained on the position of the center rotor to. In 1952, Swan joined the youth wing of Sheffield Wednesday and parallel he worked in the coal mine of Armthrope later. Only by signing a professional contract in November 1953, the signs clearly on a professional career as a footballer.
As a 18- year-old he was called up for military service and even though he spent two years with the Royal Signals in the field of physical exercise, it was him usually allowed to participate in one of Sheffield Wednesday. His second league debut Swan on November 5, 1955, the Barnsley FC (3-0 ), but on the sporty breakthrough he first had to wait, as he usually came into use in the first three seasons only downtime by Don McEvoy. From the end of February 1958, his successor, Harry Catterick took coach Eric Taylor and especially in the following season 1958/59 the change in the center-half position towards Swan, who matured from then on in the club as a key player - the defensive formation from Peter Swan, Tom McAnearney and Tony Kay was increasingly seen as one of the best in English football. After the rise in 1959 in the top flight Swan was involved in all Premier League matches of the season 1959/60 and thus substantially responsible for the surprising achievement of fifth place. The following year, Swan won with the " Owls " the runner-up and had to deal only the superior double winners Tottenham Hotspur admit defeat.
Swans rapid athletic development was also reflected in the English selection teams, as he prepares for the U -23 regular aground in the senior team after three performances from May 1960. He played his first international match on 11 May 1960 against Yugoslavia ( 3-3 ) and up to his last game two years later against Switzerland (3:1) on May 9, 1962, he had accumulated a total of 19 national missions. Also in May 1962, he was part of the England squad for the upcoming World Cup in Chile in 1962, but suffered at this time under a tonsillitis. Although he recovered from it in time and traveled with the team to Chile, but the English side's central defense were there Maurice Norman and Bobby Moore.
Betting scandal: participation and consequences (1962-1964)
Swan was one of the main people who were involved in a well-known English betting scandal at the beginning of the 1960s. Together with Tony Kay and David Layne, two other players from Sheffield Wednesday, he participated in an agreement which provided for the defeat of their team against Ipswich Town on 1 December 1962. Had won - in fact Ipswich won the game 2-0 and then Swan was always that the enemy "fair" - ie in the ordinary way without "help". The matter came 1964 to the public, as with Jimmy Gauld, an initiator of the agreements his story to the newspaper The People sold. As evidence were sound recordings that Swan convicted unique. On April 13, 1964, the verdict of guilty followed, and in addition to a four-month prison sentence saw the punishment a life ban in relation to the professional football before. The succession to his position went to Sheffield Vic Mobley.
Looking for a new professional field of Swan initially worked as a car salesman and later as an innkeeper in Sheffield and Chesterfield. In 1972, he pardoned the English Football Association and picked the lock after a total of eight years.
Comeback, coach activities and the after life (from 1972)
Swan joined once again Sheffield Wednesday and on the opening day of the 1972/73 season he was against Fulham (3-0) comeback. The club played now back in the second league and the team showed beyond form weak. This led, among other things, that Swan lost his place again, and his appearance on November 11, 1972 against Oxford United ( 0-1) was the last. Although coach Derek Dooley offered him another contract for the season of 1973/74, but this provided that Swan was training in the reserve team trainees at his side. Instead, he moved to the fourth division FC Bury - before, simulation games with FC Chesterfield had shattered. Something strange is designed for Bury Swans debut against Torquay United, as it already after a few minutes a goal succeeded, after meeting in Sheffield in the course of his duty 301 lash Etched not once. After one year for Bury FC he ended his active career in professional football. An extension offer, which was to become his membership each month temporary and renewed, he refused.
His path led him into coaching trade from the summer of 1974 in the amateur area to Matlock Town. He led the team straight into the main round of the FA Cup, which was the club in its history, previously only succeeded once. These won the FA Trophy and his men defeated it in the finals actually favored FC Scarborough clear 4-0. Later he left the club with the aim to find a head coach role in a more ambitious club. However, this request was not fulfilled and instead he hired himself up in the 1980s further into the non -league clubs in the area such as Worksop Town FC and Buxton.
Furthermore, he operated in Chesterfield until his retirement in a restaurant. In public, he went only in intensified degree back in 2006 when he published his, written in collaboration with Nick Johnson Biography Setting The Record Straight.
Title / Awards
- FA Trophy: 1975