Swifts winger becomes a Yellow

AFC Sudbury have added another impressive name to their squad as Lionel Ainsworth arrives from Heybridge Swifts.

Lionel has an impressive pedigree, coming through the youth ranks at Derby County before breaking into the first team squad. He went on to play for Hereford United, Watford, Huddersfield Town, Shrewsbury Town and Rotherham United before heading north of the border and becoming a favourite at Motherwell, before returning south to join Plymouth Argyle.

He then spent time at Weymouth, and with our former favourites Dulwich Hamlet, before pandemic-hit spells at Welling United and Braintree Town. He scored seventeen goals in his thirty six appearances last season.

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