Nicky Jennings

Nicky Jennings

Personal information
Full name	Nicholas Jennings
Date of birth	18 January 1946 (1946-01-18) (age 65)
Place of birth	Wellington, Somerset, England
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Playing position	Winger
Youth career
1961–63	Wellington
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1963–1967	Plymouth Argyle	98	(11)
1967–1974	Portsmouth	206	(45)
1973	→ Aldershot(loan)	4	(1)
1974–1978	Exeter City	124	(15)
* 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 games 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.

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

Sporting positions
Preceded by John Milkins	Portsmouth F.C. Fans' Player of the Year 1971	Succeeded by Richie Reynolds

Persondata
Name	Jennings, Nicky
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	18 January 1946
Place of birth	Wellington, Somerset, England
Date of death
Place of death