{"id":539592,"date":"2020-01-06T15:32:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T20:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=539592"},"modified":"2020-01-06T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T20:32:31","slug":"anthony-grant-joins-swindon-town-on-a-permanent-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/06\/anthony-grant-joins-swindon-town-on-a-permanent-basis\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Grant Joins Swindon Town on a Permanent Basis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swindon Town have confirmed that they have signed <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/79b041fa\/Anthony-Grant\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Grant<\/a> on a short-term deal until the end of the season after the midfielder had initially joined on-loan.<\/p>\n<h2>Anthony Grant Joins Swindon Town On A Permanent Basis<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Full Story \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Anthony42Grant?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Anthony42Grant<\/a> signs on a permanent deal \ud83d\ude4c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/STFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#STFC<\/a> \ud83d\udd34<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Swindon Town Football Club (@Official_STFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Official_STFC\/status\/1214236435257020419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Impressive In Midfield<\/h3>\n<p>Having moved to the County Ground in the summer, the 32-year-old has put in a number of impressive performances in midfield.<\/p>\n<p>He has featured in all 20 games since his arrival. As a result, his performances have helped Swindon to occupy top spot in League Two, three points ahead of Exeter City in second.<\/p>\n<p>Grant&#8217;s wealth of experience has eased the pressure on his fellow squad members in midfield. He has featured in a deeper role, allowed his team-mates to press further forward.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, however, he has operated at centre-back due to a number of injuries.<\/p>\n<h3>Wealth Of Experience Will Help Swindon&#8217;s Promotion Push<\/h3>\n<p>Anthony Grant is an experienced midfielder in the Football League, meaning he will prove useful in Swindon&#8217;s push for promotion.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old started his career at<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Chelsea<\/a>, making just one appearance for the Blues as a 90th-minute substitute.<\/p>\n<p>He spent much of his career out on loan while at Stamford Bridge, with spells at clubs such as Wycombe Wanderers and Southend United.<\/p>\n<p>It was at Southend where Grant finally settled and began his career. He spent four years with the Essex club.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2012, Grant has had spells with a number of clubs, including Stevenage, Crewe Alexandra, Port Vale, Peterborough United and Shrewsbury Town.<\/p>\n<p>Shrewsbury is where Grant joined Swindon on loan from. Having made 42 appearances during his first season with the Shrews, he was then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/49006462\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;banished&#8217;<\/a> from the first-team set up in July 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Robins will now be hoping that Grant can help aid their promotion push at the third attempt after they suffered relegation from League One in the 2016-17 season.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <a id=\"VuhAt89jSM5NNqKJheQH3Q\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/831882374\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'VuhAt89jSM5NNqKJheQH3Q',sig:'C-jm9bJoHaAA6f4Q9iShDwFKQduSstIgANuZ9nnCHCg=',w:'594px',h:'363px',items:'831882374',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swindon Town have confirmed that they have signed Anthony Grant on a short-term deal until the end of the season after the midfielder had initially joined on-loan. Anthony Grant Joins Swindon Town On A Permanent Basis The Full Story \ud83d\udc47@Anthony42Grant signs on a permanent deal \ud83d\ude4c#STFC \ud83d\udd34 &mdash; Swindon Town Football Club (@Official_STFC) January 6, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":539629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34,28],"tags":[4551,168,827,767,136],"class_list":["post-539592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-transfers","tag-anthony-grant","tag-efl","tag-efl-league-two","tag-swindon-town","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}