Nigel Jemson


Nigel Bradley Jemson is an English footballer, who represented his country at under-21 level and was the player-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

Jemson played for a total of 12 English league clubs, most notably for Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Wednesday, one Scottish league club and one Northern Irish league club during his career, rarely lasting more than a season in each club.
Arguably, the highlight of his career was the winning goal he scored in the 1990 League Cup Final for Nottingham Forest against Oldham Athletic, the only goal of the game.
In July 1996, Jemson joined Oxford United for a fee of £60,000. During his time there, he had loan spells with Watford, Coventry City, and Rotherham United. In April 1996 he scored both Rotherham's goals in a 2–1 win over Shrewsbury Town, for whom he later played 109 games, in the Football League Trophy Final at Wembley Stadium.
Jemson also gained national fame in January 2003, after scoring the Shrewsbury goals that knocked Everton out of the FA Cup third round. He put the Shrews into a first-half lead with a free kick and, after Niclas Alexandersson had equalised for Everton, glanced a last-minute header past Richard Wright, to give Shrewsbury a famous giant-killing victory. Having earlier scored once against Stafford Rangers and twice against Barrow, his two goals against Everton took his tally to 5 in the competition meaning he ended up as top scorer.
In 2010, he replaced Eoin Jess in the Nottingham Forest's Masters team for the 2010 HKFC International Soccer Sevens tournament.

International career

Jemson was capped once for the England under-21s, in a 0–0 friendly against Wales under-21s in December 1990.

Personal life

In 2011, Jemson was reportedly training as a fireman in Bingham, Nottinghamshire. He also maintains his interest in football and Nottingham Forest, starting a blog about his former team in October 2011.

Honours

;Nottingham Forest
;Rotherham United