Nicky Jennings

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Nicky Jennings
Personal information
Full name Nicholas Jennings
Date of birth 18 January 1946 (1946-01-18) (age 62)
Place of birth    Wellington, Somerset, England
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Playing position Winger
Youth clubs
1961–63 Wellington
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1963–1967
1967–1974
1973
1974–1978		 Plymouth Argyle
Portsmouth
→ Aldershot(loan)
Exeter City		 098 0(11)
02060(45)
040(1)
01240(15)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Nicholas "Nicky" Jennings (born 18 January 1946 in Somerset) was an English professional footballer (soccer player) whose 15 year career ran from the early sixties[1] to the mid seventies[2]. Born in Wellington, Somerset on 15 February 1948[3] he played nearly 100 league for his first club Plymouth Argyle. A speedy winger[4], he moved to Portsmouth in January 1967 and was to prove such a popular player that in 1971 he was awarded the title of Pompey’s Player of the Year [5]. In all he made over 200 appearances for Pompey[6] (and 4 during a loan spell at Aldershot) before moving to Exeter on a free transfer[7] in the 1974 close season, making his final league appearance in 1978.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Career starts
  2. ^ and ends
  3. ^ ”Rothmans Football Year Book,1970-71” Peskett,R/Williams,T: Harpenden, QAP,1970 ISBN 0362000719
  4. ^ Fans testimony
  5. ^ "Pompey: The History of Portsmouth Football Club" Cooper,M/ Neasom,M/ Robinson,D: Portsmouth, Milestone Publications, 1984 ISBN 0903852500
  6. ^ "The PFA Premier League and Football League Players’ Records 1946-98” Hugman,B: Harpenden, Queen Anne Press, 1998 ISBN 1852915854
  7. ^ ”Portsmouth, from Tindall to Ball” Farmery, C: Southend-on-Sea, Desert Island Books, 1999 ISBN 1874287252
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Preceded by
John Milkins		 Portsmouth F.C. Fans' Player of the Year
1971		 Succeeded by
Richie Reynolds