Nigel Jemson

Nigel Jemson

Personal information
Full name	Nigel Bradley Jemson
Date of birth	10 August 1969 (1969-08-10)
Place of birth	Hutton, Lancashire, England
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	HKDC Mobsters
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1986–1988	Preston North End	32	(8)
1988–1991	Nottingham Forest	47	(13)
1989	→ Bolton Wanderers (loan)	5	(0)
1989	→ Preston North End (loan)	9	(2)
1991–1994	Sheffield Wednesday	51	(9)
1993	→ Grimsby Town (loan)	6	(2)
1994–1996	Notts County	14	(1)
1995	→ Watford (loan)	4	(0)
1995	→ Coventry City (loan)	0	(0)
1996	→ Rotherham United (loan)	16	(5)
1996–1998	Oxford United	68	(27)
1998–1999	Bury	29	(1)
1999–2000	Ayr United	12	(5)
2000	Oxford	18	(0)
2000–2003	Shrewsbury Town	109	(36)
2003–2004	Ballymena United	?	(?)
2004–2008	Ilkeston Town	3	(0)
2008	Rainworth Miners Welfare	?	(?)
2008–2008	Halifax Town	10	(2)
2011–	HKDC Mobsters	1	(1)
Total		423	(109)
National team
1990	England U21	1	(0)
Teams managed
2005–2008	Ilkeston Town (player-manager)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Nigel Jemson (born 10 August 1969) is an English footballer, who represented his country at the Under-21 level and was the manager of Ilkeston Town, until May 2008. He finished his career at Rainworth Miners Welfare in the Northern Counties East League Premier Division.

Club career

He played for a total of 12 English league clubs and one Scottish league club during his career, rarely lasting more than a season in each club.

Arguably, the highlight of his career was the goal he scored in the 1990 League Cup Final for Nottingham Forest against Oldham Athletic. It resulted to be the winner, and the only goal of the game.

There was another highlight in his career was in 1996, when he scored two goals at Wembley, in the then named Auto Windscreens Shield Final (Football League Trophy) for Rotherham United in a 2-1 win against Shrewsbury Town, whom he later went to play 109 games for.

Jemson also gained national fame in January 2003, after scoring the goals that knocked Everton out of the FA Cup 3rd round during his time in Shrewsbury Town. He put the Shrews into a first half lead with a free kick, and after Niclas Alexandersson had equalised for Everton, he glanced a last minute header past Richard Wright, to give Shrewsbury Town another famous FA Cup victory, and one of the all-time greatest FA Cup games.

Jemson currently plays for, and captains, Nottingham Forest's Masters team.

After Football

Jemson is currently training as a fireman. He maintains his interest in football and Nottingham Forest, starting a blog about his former team in October 2011.

International career

Jemson has one cap for England Under-21s.

Nickname

He was affectionately known as the "Jemolition man" by Forest fans.

Honours

Nottingham Forest

• League Cup Winners: 1990

Rotherham United

• Football League Trophy Winners: 1996

External links

• Nigel Jemson career stats at Soccerbase
• Detailed player profile
• electronicfishcake.com - Grimsby player profile
• [1] - article on fireman training.