[2] He famously won the Scottish Cup in 1991, playing most of the second half plus thirty minutes of extra time with broken ribs, a ruptured spleen and intermittent double vision sustained in a collision with Dundee United defender John Clark.
[4][5] However, he did not play for the club during the next season due to a contract dispute with manager Tommy McLean, who brought in the experienced Billy Thomson and Dutchman Sieb Dijkstra to fill the position.
[6] After a loan spell in England with Bolton Wanderers Maxwell moved to Rangers[7] for a £300,000 fee,[2] where he was initially backup to Andy Goram but played regularly when Goram was recovering from injury,[8] picking up a Scottish League Cup winners' medal in 1993[9][10] followed by a Scottish Cup runners-up medal, as Dundee United gained revenge for Maxwell's heroics three years previously in the 1994 Scottish Cup final.
[11] He also played sufficient league games for medals in each of his three seasons at Ibrox which were part of the club's '9 in a row' run.
[7] Maxwell then moved to Dundee United in 1995 for £250,000[12] and spent three seasons at Tannadice, although the majority of his games came in his first campaign, and having lost his place to Sieb Dijkstra again after injury, he did not play at all in the third.