sentences:  During his four seasons with Swindon, the club reached the play-offs twice (in 1988–89 and again in 1989–90), but failed to gain promotion to the First Division.Swindon Town won the Second Division playoff final in 1989–90 but Sunderland were promoted instead after the Swindon board admitted a series of financial irregularities.In March 1991, after 126 games for the Robins, Chris Nicholl re-signed him for Southampton, and he returned to The Dell a day before the transfer deadline, this time for a fee of £400,000.