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Roy Jennings



goldstone

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Jul 5, 2003
7,108
Great player and rock of a central defender. Hope his death is recognised at the Amex on Saturday.
 


topbanana36

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Dec 29, 2007
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New Zealand
Sounds like a club legend. Bit before my time. Would appreciate some extra information about Roy Jennings.

Played nearly 300 times for the Albion signed from Swindon (some family still there) club captain, played England youth. Played against Fulham Boxing Day 36,000 attendance and a club favourite.
 


BensGrandad

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Jul 13, 2003
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Haywards Heath
IIRC although a CB i think that he played some games at left back and in the back of my mind is him playing at least 1 game at centre forward but I am not certain.
 

Bwian

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Jul 14, 2003
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I think he lived in one of the club houses on the north side of Old Shoreham Rd, Southwick just before Kingston Lane. Met him numerous times. As others have said-no nonsense defender. R.I.P. Roy.
 


AnotherArch

Northern Exile
Apr 2, 2009
1,172
Stockport & M62
He was the first Albion player that I ever saw sent off. It was rare in those days. Away to Gillingham. Naive as I was, I thought the refereee had made a mistake and would call him back as he made his long walk to the stand.
Then there was the first time that he was dropped - for a young Norman Gall. No keeping your cards close to your chest in those days, as the team was announced in the Argus the day before. It was headlines on the back page.
 

Paris

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Jul 17, 2010
4,065
13th district
https://thegoldstonewrap.com/2013/06/28/roy-jennings-the-sole-survivor-in-1961/

Have childhood memories of reading about a half back line of Bertolini, Jennings and Burtenshaw - anyone confirm?

Thanks to you and Top Banana for the info.

This quote regarding the second tier seems familiar: 'The Second Division is the toughest one from which to gain promotion. Each season there seem to be about four top-class sides challenging, with the rest cutting each other’s throats week by week'.
 


papajaff

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Aug 7, 2005
3,965
Brighton
I think he lived in one of the club houses on the north side of Old Shoreham Rd, Southwick just before Kingston Lane. Met him numerous times. As others have said-no nonsense defender. R.I.P. Roy.

There were about 4 or 5 club houses there Bwian. I remember John Templeman and Eddie Spearritt living there as my mate lived opposite.

RIP Roy. A real Albion legend.
 

rocker959

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Jan 22, 2011
2,802
Plovdiv Bulgaria
RIP
 

GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009
46,377
Gloucester
I think that was the line up when we played Fulham on Boxing Day and completely blotted out Johnny Haynes Bedford Jezzard and Tosh Chamberlain.
..........and also possibly in the 3-3 draw with League Champions Burnley in the cup? Bertolini's 35 yard screamer...........and all he got was a bollocking from Billy Lane for a bad tackle he made!
 

amexer

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Aug 8, 2011
6,142
Dont think it was Bertolini scored 35 yder. Not sure of name but think it was full back
 


chucky1973

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Nov 3, 2010
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Crawley
A real shame, never saw him play, but as recently as 3 to 4 years ago he was selling fleet cars to my company, I had many a great chat to him about his days at the Albion which he always spoke so fondly off. A real gent. RIP Roy.
 

GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009
46,377
Gloucester
Dont think it was Bertolini scored 35 yder. Not sure of name but think it was full back

Bl**dy hell, you're right. Just looked it up - it was the full back, McNichol (Jimmy?) - he got the rollocking for the bad tackle too. Oh well, that's my memory of over fifty years ago shattered in an instant!
 

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