Jack Reynolds (footballer, born 1869), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British association football player (1869-1917)
Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1869
Place of Birth: Blackburn, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 12-Mar-1917
Profession: association football player
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Jack Reynolds (footballer, born 1869)
- John Reynolds (21 February 1869 – 12 March 1917) was a footballer who played for, among others, West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa and Celtic.
- As an international he played five times for Ireland before it emerged that he was actually English and he subsequently played eight times for England.
- He is the only player, barring own goals, to score for and against England and is the only player to play for both Ireland and England.
- He won the FA Cup with West Bromwich Albion in 1892 and was a prominent member of the successful Aston Villa team of the 1890s, winning three English League titles and two FA Cups, including a double in 1897. Reynolds was noted as a highly competitive player with some remarkable ball skills and exceptionally brilliant footwork.
- He was regarded as one of the great footballers of the 1890s and was one of the highest paid players of his generation.
- However, he also gained a reputation for drinking and womanising and as result much of the money he earned disappeared.
- He fathered at least one illegitimate child and in 1899 he appeared in court for non-payment of child maintenance.
- His heavy drinking blighted his latter career and after brief spells at Celtic and then Southampton, he became a semi-professional journeyman.
- Towards the end of his life he worked as a miner in Sheffield and he died alone in a boarding house at the age of 48.
- Reynolds and his career have been the subject of several lectures, including one entitled How to play football, win friends and die young: The life of John Reynolds, given by Dr.
- Neal Garnham at the University of Ulster.
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