PAT JENNINGS: - The story of my life 🎤 Full interview

Описание: Patrick Jennings tale started in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, where he was born on June 12th, 1945. He reached a total of 119 international matches for his national team as a goalkeper, spanning over 22 years of career. From his first matches with the local team of Newry Town, Jennings moved south, to London where he was first signed by Watford and then his skills were soon noticed and earned him the move to top club Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, winning the FA Cup with both clubs. Throughout his career Pat Jennings played more than 1,000 official matches and even scoring a goal in the 1967 FA Charity Shield.

Jennings initial sport activity was on gaelic football but after his brother invitation to play as a goalkeeper, we went on and played for his hometown club Newry Town. His appearances turned out to be so good that it did not take him too long before being noticed and signed by Third Division Watford in May 1963. But even there he did not last long as top club Tottenham Hotspur saw his qualities and signed him for £27,000 in June 1964.

Pat Jennings moved then to north London where he spent thirteen years at White Hart Lane, where he played 591 in all competitions, winning the FA Cup in 1967, the League Cup in 1971 and 1973, and the UEFA Cup in 1972. In 1973 the Football Writers' Association awarded him as footballer of the year while in 1976 he received the Professional Footballers' Association award, becoming the first goalkeeper to receive this accolade.

In August 1977 Pat Jennings moved to north London rivals Arsenal, where he remained for eight years, helping the club reach four Cup finals in three successive years (1978 till 1980), as well as the European Cup Winners Cup final. Jennings made 327 appearances for Arsenal, becoming the first player in English football to make 1,000 senior appearances.
After his retirement, Jennings returned to Tottenham Hotspur, playing mostly in their reserve side to maintain his match sharpness for Northern Ireland's 1986 World Cup campaign.

Jennings made his debut with the national team as an eighteen-year-old. That match, won by Northern Ireland against Wales by 3-2 and played on 15 April 1964, also marked the debut of another Northern Ireland legend: George Best. In total, Pat Jennings participated in the qualifying stages of six World Cups between 1966 and 1986, playing for a total number of 119 matches for his national team.
After his retirement Pat Jennings, also thanks to the invitation of former teammate Osvaldo Ardiles, has worked for Tottenham since 1993. In 2003 Jennings was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in recognition of the skills he demonstrated in the English league.

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Although Pat Jennings also played for Arsenal (with whom they contest the North London derby), he is mainly linked to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as Tottenham or Spurs.
Tottenham competes in the english Premier League and were founded in 1882. They won the FA Cup for the first time in 1901, the only non-League club to do so since the formation of the Football League in 1888. Tottenham were the first club in the 20th century to achieve the League and FA Cup Double, winning both competitions in the 1960–61 season. In 1963 they became the first British club to win a UEFA club competition, the European Cup Winners' Cup. They were also the inaugural winners of the UEFA Cup in 1972, becoming the first British club to win two different major European trophies. They collected at least one major trophy in each of the six decades from the 1950s to 2000s – an achievement only matched by Manchester United.
The home venue of the club is Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, since April 2019. With a seating capacity of 62,850 it is the third-largest football stadium in England and the largest stadium in London. It displays a retractable football pitch, which reveals a synthetic turf field underneath for NFL London Games, concerts and other events and replaced the previous White Hart Lane, The club training ground is on Hotspur Way in Bulls Cross in the London Borough of Enfield. The club's emblem is a cockerel standing upon a football, with the Latin motto Audere est Facere ("To Dare Is to Do").

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