Get well soon Leighton. A fantastic player, my favourite player actually a Swans legend helped us get to the top division, scored against Preston if i remember right, he scored 1 goal every 3 games from the wing for us, Derby paid their then record transfer fee for him before we had him and they had just won a couple of Premier League titles [Div 1 as it was called then], i remember him scoring a couple for Wales against one of the best ever teams in Czechoslovakia , they had won the 76 Euro's and had Panenka, Nehoda and Masny, if i remember right they had not lost for years [3 years ?] until they ran into Leighton. I just watched the highlights of Wales win at Wembley, James set up a Cardiff forward for two and the Cardiff player missed, he had a free kick that looked goal bound deflected away, he was then taken out by Shilton to prevent him from scoring, James took the resulting penalty which was struck perfectly with control and pace into the side netting with Shilton going the wrong way, it wouldn't have mattered if he had gone the right way nobody was saving that. [Post edited 25 Apr 2014 23:12]
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