Monday Memory Moments Week 1

[TrueBlue]

Going to start something new - every Monday I will pick a player from SUFC's past and we can share what was good about him or what was not, the player could be well known or quite obscure.


So lets start with.... Neil Jenkins

Neil Jenkins (born 6 January 1982) is an English footballer who plays for Hampton & Richmond Borough F.C. as a left footed defender and midfielder. He started his career as a trainee at Wimbledon before transferring to the then Division Three side Southend United for two seasons, then joining the non league team of Crawley Town and later Eastbourne Borough. During his career, Jenkins has earned a cap for the England Under-20 national team.

 

[TrueBlue]

http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=32596

 

[Napster]

Jenkins' brother was a sparky and posted on Shrimperzone.

 

[TrueBlue]

Was he not a victim of the Wignall cull???

 

[DTS]

Scored a great goal up at Hull on his debut and then laid on the equaliserfor Tes. The local's were not happy at all.

 

[Napster]

Was he not a victim of the Wignall cull???

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,11716_2265569,00+en-USS_01DBC.html

 

[Napster]

No Tilly released him in May 2004 and he joined Crawley

 

[TrueBlue]

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,11716_2265569,00+en-USS_01DBC.html

Ahhh I see!!

 

[Calvin Candie]

Did he hit the bar up in Scarborough ?

 

[BrettieAngell]

Scored a great goal up at Hull on his debut and then laid on the equaliserfor Tes. The local's were not happy at all.

I remember that game, was a bit hairy leaving the ground!

 

[fbm]

I never thought he fulfilled his potential. Aside from his U-20 cap, his time with us was the pinnacle of his career, which doesn't say much when you consider that at the time we were a very average basement division team. You'd have thought someone who had received international recognition would have made it at a higher level.

 

[Silencer]

Think I remember him scoring away at Boston in a midweek 2-0 win.....I quite enjoyed Boston away, big Terrace. Might have been the very early Tilly days with the likes of Lawrie Dudfield, Leon Constantine, Tes Bramble, a new Marky Gower etc

It was freezing cold and I wore a silly hat I bought the week before out in Prague. Got a few looks but it keep my ears warm :winking:

 

[davewebbsbrain]

I liked Jinks. Always gave 100% and a decent lad

 

[Lester Bangs]

The top 40 for the week he was born:

http://chartarchive.org/c/1982-01-09

and the top 40 for when he joined Southend United

http://chartarchive.org/c/2002-08-10

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Did he get sent off at Yeovil for calling the ref a ****?

Apparently truth isn't a defence.

 

[Welly7]

Should have scored at Scarborough.

 

[C C Csiders]

Did he hit the bar up in Scarborough ?

Certainly did. Did doubles across the optics and had to have his stomach pumped.

 

[Stats]

One of a crop of players we had in that era, that possessed the acceleration of a milk float.

 

[LennySUFC]

Neil Jenkins is an international! Da da dadada dadadada

Good old chant! About all I remember of him, I was young!

 

[NZamba Legend]

Wignall tried to reinvent him as a Scholes-type goalscoring midfielder. The man may not have had the passion in his eyes but he had vision...