He was on the books of Leicester City as an apprentice but failed to make the break into senior football there.
His finest moment as captain was lifting the Milk Cup at Wembley Stadium in April 1986.
His appointment was popular[4] and initially successful, as he led the team out of relegation danger to a creditable 12th-place finish in Division One.
In 2021, it was revealed on the Football Cliches[5] podcast that three early teenagers impersonated Shotton to make fake transfer enquiries directly to club managers.
This led to Roy Evans, Martin O'Neill, Barry Fry and others to speculate on transfer dealings directly to the impersonators who ran their scam from a payphone.