Nicky Jennings

Nicholas Jennings (18 January 1946 – 4 June 2016) was an English professional footballer whose 15-year career ran from the early 1960s^[1] to the mid-1970s.^[2]

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Personal information
Full name	Nicholas Jennings
Date of birth	(1946-01-18)18 January 1946
Place of birth	Wellington, Somerset, England
Date of death	4 June 2016(2016-06-04) (aged 70)
Position(s)	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)
1973	Dallas Tornado	18	(3)
1974–1978	Exeter City	124	(15)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
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Born in Wellington, Somerset^[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 Portsmouth Player of the Year.^[5] In all he made over 200 appearances for Portsmouth^[6] (and 4 during a loan spell at Aldershot) before moving to Exeter City on a free transfer^[7] in the 1974 close season, making his final league appearance in 1978. Jennings also played the summer of 1973 in the NASL with the Dallas Tornado.^[8] He was named an All-Star Honorable Mention and help Dallas to the league final, which they lost 0–2.

Jennings died on Saturday 4 June 2016 at the age of 70.^[9]

1. ^ "Career starts". Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
2. ^ and ends
3. ^ "Rothmans Football Year Book,1970–71" Peskett,R/Williams,T: Harpenden, QAP,1970 ISBN 0-362-00071-9
4. ^ Fans testimony Archived 7 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
5. ^ "Pompey: The History of Portsmouth Football Club" Cooper,M/ Neasom,M/ Robinson,D: Portsmouth, Milestone Publications, 1984 ISBN 0-903852-50-0
6. ^ "The PFA Premier League and Football League Players' Records 1946–98" Hugman,B: Harpenden, Queen Anne Press, 1998 ISBN 1-85291-585-4
7. ^ "Portsmouth, from Tindall to Ball" Farmery, C: Southend-on-Sea, Desert Island Books, 1999 ISBN 1-874287-25-2
8. ^ http://www.nasljerseys.com/Players/J/Jennings.Nicholas.html^{[permanent dead link]}
9. ^ Pompey will never forget Tricky Nicky on the wing

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