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10 de feb. de 2008 · Frank Swift was a huge, athletic goalkeeper with a dry, clown's outlook on life, gloveless hands that spread as wide as a tennis racket and who, history tells us, was the best in the world at his job.
7 de jul. de 2019 · Frank Swift represented Man City and England as a goalkeeper - including during wartime Credit: PA:Press Association. Swift was on his way back from reporting on Manchester United’s European Cup ...
Football in the Goalmouth - Frank Swift and Roy Peskett (1948). Frank Swift: Manchester City and England Legend - Mark Metcalfe (DB Publishing, March 2013) x. - A Football Compendium, Peter J. Seddon (1999). Club Career: Club(s) Swift announced his retirement from football on 19 April 1949. Club ...
Frank Swift. Player name in full: Frank Victor Swift. To/from dates:1933-1949. Number of appearances: 375. Goals scored: 0. Biography: Born in Blackpool on Boxing Day 1913, Frank stood at 6’ 2” (1.88m) with a finger span of 11 ¾” (29.8cm).
14 de jul. de 2014 · Frank Swift had hands described as anything from frying pans to spades to tennis rackets. It’s fair to say they were big – just as was the former England goalkeeper’s stature and personality.
26 de dic. de 2013 · By Gary James. Swift, Frank Victor (1913-1958), footballer and journalist was born in Blackpool, Lancashire on 26 December 1913, the second son of five children. From his earliest memories, he was always obsessed with the game of football, playing at every opportunity with his brothers, one of whom, Fred, became first team goalkeeper for a ...
30 de jun. de 2022 · Among those who died when the plane carrying the Manchester United team crashed in Munich in 1958 was Frank Swift, who had been covering their match in Belgrade for the News of the World. ‘Big Swifty’, though always on good terms with United, was a Manchester City legend, keeping goal for them in 376 Football League and FA Cup matches between 1933 and 1949.
