FORMER Saint and academy graduate Nathan Dyer has called time on his professional footballing career, announcing his retirement aged 33.
The Trowbridge-born winger joined Saints’ first team in 2005 after a decade in the youth system and went on to play 66 times for the club.
He spent his best years with Swansea, after joining the Welsh side permanently following a loan spell in 2009 and going on to win promotion to the Premier League and a League Cup – scoring twice in the final.
He is also a Premier League winner, after he was part of Claudio Ranieri’s odds-smashing Leicester City squad that lifted the trophy for a first time in the 2015-16 season.
Apart from loan spells with Burnley, Sheffield United and the aforementioned Foxes, Saints and Swansea were the only two clubs Dyer was employed by throughout his entire 15-year career – a career that harboured more than 430 first-team appearances.
Dyer scored his only league goal for Saints during a match that ended in a 3–2 defeat against Watford in September 2007.
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