Dave Swindlehurst

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Dave Swindlehurst

| image =

| fullname = David Swindlehurst

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1956|1|6}}

| birth_place = Edgware, England

| position = Striker

| height = 6 ft 2 in{{cite book |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88 |editor-first=Peter |editor-last=Dunk |publisher=Queen Anne Press |location=London |date=1987 |page=352 |isbn=978-0-356-14354-5}}

| currentclub =

| youthyears1 = ?–1973

| youthclubs1 = Crystal Palace

| years1 = 1973–1980

| years2 = 1980–1983

| years3 = 1983–1985

| years4 = 1985–1987

| years5 = 1987

| years6 = 1988

| years7 = 1988–1989

| years8 = 1988–1989

| clubs1 = Crystal Palace

| clubs2 = Derby County

| clubs3 = West Ham United

| clubs4 = Sunderland

| clubs5 = Anorthosis Famagusta

| clubs6 = Wimbledon

| clubs7 = Colchester United

| clubs8 = → Peterborough United (loan)

| caps1 = 237

| caps2 = 125

| caps3 = 61

| caps4 = 72

| caps5 = 13

| caps6 = 2

| caps7 = 12

| caps8 = 4

| goals1 = 73

| goals2 = 32

| goals3 = 16

| goals4 = 11

| goals5 = 4

| goals6 = 0

| goals7 = 6

| goals8 = 1

| nationalyears1 = 1974 | nationalteam1 = England Youth | nationalcaps1 = 3 | nationalgoals1 = 1

| nationalyears2 = 1976

| nationalyears3 =

| nationalteam2 = England U21

| nationalteam3 = England B

| nationalcaps2 = 1

| nationalcaps3 = 1

| nationalgoals2 = 0

| nationalgoals3 = 0

| manageryears1 = 1989–????

| managerclubs1 = Bromley

| manageryears2 =

| managerclubs2 = Molesey

| manageryears3 = 2006–2008

| managerclubs3 = Whyteleafe

}}

David Swindlehurst (born 6 January 1956 in Edgware, Middlesex) is an English former footballer who played as a striker.

Career

Swindlehurst came up through the ranks at Crystal Palace, playing youth football in the early 1970s with future West Ham United teammate Alan Devonshire.{{cite book|last=Hogg |first=Tony |year=2005 |title=Who's Who of West Ham United |publisher=Profile Sports Media |isbn=1-903135-50-8| page=197}} Starting his senior career in 1973, he played for Palace for eight seasons and scored 81 goals in 278 appearances. Swindlehurst first joined Derby County as a loan player, two months before his transfer was made permanent in April 1980.{{cite web| url=https://www.11v11.com/players/dave-swindlehurst-28221/| title=Dave Swindlehurst| website=11v11.com| publisher=Association of Football Statisticians| accessdate=25 January 2018}} Derby paid £410,000, a then-record for the club.{{Cite web | title = Derby County strikers John Duncan, Dave Swindlehurst and Kevin Wilson | author = | work = picturethepast.org.uk | date = | accessdate = 25 January 2018 | url = http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;DRBY006130&pos=2&action=zoom}}

West Ham manager John Lyall brought Swindlehurst to Upton Park for £160,000 in March 1983. Injuries hampered his chances of regular first-team football. He played his last game for West Ham on 27 April 1985 against Luton Town and after 71 League and cup games for the east Londoners, he moved on to Sunderland.{{cite web| url=http://www.westhamstats.info/westham.php?west=2&ham=626&united=Dave_Swindlehurst| title=Dave Swindlehurst| website=www.westhamstats.info| accessdate=25 January 2018}}

After a spell in Cyprus with Anorthosis Famagusta, Swindlehurst returned to London to play for Wimbledon, but he managed just two appearances in the season they won the 1988 FA Cup Final, beating Liverpool. He later played for Colchester United, and on loan at Peterborough United.

Coaching career

After spells playing and managing at non-League Bromley and Molesey, he rejoined his former club Crystal Palace to take up a coaching role within the youth academy. He was promoted to reserve team manager in 2001,{{Cite web | title = Eagles Linked With Benjamin Swoop | first = Stuart | last = James | publisher = Sky Sports | date = | accessdate = 25 January 2018 | url = http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11706/2225499/eagles-linked-with-benjamin-swoop }} but was sacked in October 2002.{{Cite web | title = Trevolution | first = Joseph | last = O'Shea | work = News Shopper | date = 30 October 2002 | accessdate = 25 January 2018 | url = http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/224522.Trevolution/}}

Swindlehurst joined Crawley Town as assistant manager in 2003. He was sacked in September 2005,{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2367314/Crawley-put-Wormull-in-temporary-control.html| title=Crawley put Wormull in temporary control| date=28 October 2005| newspaper=The Telegraph| first=Nicholas| last=Harling| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160706223734/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2367314/Crawley-put-Wormull-in-temporary-control.html| archivedate=6 July 2016| url-status=dead}} and won an unfair dismissal claim against the club the following year.{{cite news| url=http://www.theargus.co.uk/archive/2006/06/03/The+Argus+Archive/6813065.Swindlehurst_hits_out/| title=Swindlehurst hits out| date=3 June 2006| newspaper=The Argus| location=Brighton| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908022052/http://www.theargus.co.uk/archive/2006/06/03/The+Argus+Archive/6813065.Swindlehurst_hits_out/| archivedate=8 September 2012| url-status=dead}} He took the manager's job at Isthmian League Division One South side Whyteleafe in December 2006, and remained there until the end of the following season.{{Cite web | title = Whyeleafe FC History | work = clubwebsite.co.uk | accessdate = 25 January 2018 | url = https://www.clubwebsite.co.uk/whyteleafeyouthfc01/136002/History}}

Honours

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;Crystal Palace{{cite web |url=http://www.Coludaybyday.co.uk/Statistics/Player%20Stats/PlayerHonours/PlayerTheChampionship.html |title=Tier Two (Championship) Honours |work=Coludaybyday.co.uk |access-date=13 March 2022 |archive-date=26 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926130835/http://www.coludaybyday.co.uk/Statistics/Player%20Stats/PlayerHonours/PlayerTheChampionship.html |url-status=dead }}