Billy Paynter

Football player infobox
playername = Billy Paynter


fullname = William Paul Paynter
height = height|meters=1.83
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1984|7|13
cityofbirth = Liverpool
countryofbirth = England
currentclub = Swindon Town
position = Forward
clubnumber = 20
youthyears =
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years = 2000–2006
2005–2006
2006
2006–2007
2007
2007–
clubs = Port Vale
→ Hull City (loan)
Hull City
Southend United
→ Bradford City (loan)
Swindon Town
caps(goals) = 144 (30)
009 0(3)
013 0(0)
009 0(0)
015 0(4)
045 (10)
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pcupdate = 00:26, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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William "Billy" Paynter (born July 13, 1984 in Liverpool) is a professional footballer who plays for Swindon Town.

Career

Paynter joined Southend from Hull City on August 7, 2006 for a fee of £200,000, although he actually joined the Shrimpers a few days earlier on loan, to enable him to play in their match against Stoke.

Paynter had been signed on loan for Hull City on November 17, 2005 by then manager Peter Taylor from Port Vale, prior to a permanent transfer for an initial fee of £150,000 in the January transfer window. Team-mate Sam Collins also made the switch to the Tigers at the same time.

Paynter's preferred position is striker, but he has also played on the right wing for both City and Vale, as well as for a Football League Under-21 team (selected and managed by Peter Taylor) in a game against an Italian Serie B side, a match which took place at the KC Stadium in February 2006.

Former Hull City manager Brian Horton handed Paynter his Port Vale debut in May 2001. At only 16 years and 294 days old, this made him the youngest Vale player for 20 years, and his debut goal in September 2002 made him their youngest scorer for 24 years. He was voted as their Player of the Season in 2004–05.

Paynter failed to make an impression at Southend in the first half of the 2006–07 season, where a mixture of poor form and a hamstring injury hampered his progress. On the last day of the January transfer window, he was loaned out to Bradford City on a month's loan. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bradford_city/6317871.stm
title=Bantams get Paynter, Dyer & Youga
date=31 January 2007
accessdate=2008-01-27
publisher=BBC Sport] Playing in his first game at Valley Parade against Nottingham Forest, he scored a last minute equaliser to make it 2–2. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/6305199.stm
title=Bradford 2-2 Nottm Forest
date=3 February 2007
accessdate=2008-01-27
publisher=BBC Sport] He played 15 times for Bradford City scoring four goals after his loan was extended to the end of the season. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bradford_city/6403795.stm
title=Bradford extend Paynter loan stay
date=28 February 2007
accessdate=2008-01-27
publisher=BBC Sport]

Paynter signed for Swindon Town during the 2007–08 season. He hit a hat-trick against Bournemouth in September 2007 and followed this up with a double against Gillingham in a 5–0 win in early October 2007. In one week in January 2008 he scored a goal and an own goal in an FA Cup replay with Barnet, [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/7197842.stm
title=Barnet 1-1 Swindon (aet)
date=22 January 2008
accessdate=2008-01-27
publisher=BBC Sport] before he was sent off in a League One game with Crewe Alexandara. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/7197690.stm
title=Crewe 0-0 Swindon
date=26 January 2008
accessdate=2008-01-27
publisher=BBC Sport]

References

External links

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