Nicky Jennings

Nicky Jennings

Personal information
Full name	Nicholas Jennings
Date of birth	18 January 1946
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)
1973	Dallas Tornado	18	(3)
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 1960s^[1] to the mid-1970s.^[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. 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.

References

1. Career starts
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
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