 He captained the "Minstermen" for the first and only time at Bootham Crescent against Cheltenham Town, before he went in for some keyhole surgery to clean out his knee.The surgeon told Swan that "the mess in there is unbelievable... there's no cartilage, there are bits floating around everywhere and it's riddled with arthritis" and warned him that any further matches could see him confined to a wheelchair.After a few weeks Swan accepted both Dolan's and the surgeon's advice and retired.