Kenny Lunt started his professional football career in 1997 playing for Crewe Alexander. He played more than 7 years of first team football for the club, making his first, first team appearance aged 17, and became captian along with Steve Foster, after David Brammer was transferred to Stike City. During Lunt's time at Crewe he made over 400 appearances and scored several superb goals from outside of the penalty box.