Mick Jenkins (born 1962 age 46) ex-professional footballer and currently manager of Conference South side Bognor Regis Town with assistant Andy Awford.
Playing career edit
Mick started off as a trainee at Portsmouth. His long association with Havant Town and Waterlooville FC saw him play for both sides as well as Bognor Regis Town FC. It was at Bognor that Mick ended his career. The former defender was a year into his career as a player at Nyewood Lane, where he moved in 1994 after a long spell at Waterlooville, when he snapped his cruciate ligament. Bognor – and Jack Pearce in particular – stood by him and gave him time to recover and try to get fully fit again to rejoin the first-team squad. But the injury was too bad, and Jenkins had to abandon his attempts to get back into playing through the Sussex League and go into coaching. [1].
Management edit
His first role was as assistant manager to Dick Semark at Fareham FC in 1996. They moved as a management team to Havant Town in 1997. When Dick Semark left in 1998, Jenkins continued as assistant manager under new manager Billy Gilbert 1999-2000. After Havant Town and Waterlooville FC merged into Havant & Waterlooville Mick Jenkins & Liam Daish were appointed joint managers in April 2000. Although Mick and Liam guided the Hawks to notable successes in the FA Cup and the semi final of the FA Trophy, poor league form led to Mick and Liam Daish being dismissed in January 2004.[2] When Mick Jenkins moved to Weymouth to work under former Portsmouth team mate Steve Claridge in January 2004, Shaun Wilkinson followed. Mick remained at Weymouth until May 2006. Shortly afterwards he took the manager’s job at Dorchester Town in August 2006. Although he guided the Magpies to a 17th place finish in the Conference South and avoided relegation, this was not enough to stop him from being let go at the end of the season in June 2007 by a new shareholder. Mick then had a year off football until June 2008 when he was appointed manager of Bognor Regis Town.
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