Richie Reynolds, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Richie Reynolds

English footballer

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1948

Place of Birth: Looe, England, United Kingdom

Profession: association football player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Richie Reynolds

  • Richard Reynolds (born 15 February 1948) is an English former professional footballer whose career ran from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.Born in Looe, Reynolds started his career as an apprentice at Plymouth Argyle.
  • He made his debut in an FA Cup tie against Derby County on 9 January 1965, aged 16, and signed professional forms a month later.
  • In all Reynolds was to make over 100 appearances for The Pilgrims.He had a loan spell at Yeovil, winning the Southern League in 1970–71.
  • before moving to Portsmouth in the 1971 close season.
  • He was to prove such a popular player that in 1972 he was awarded the title of Pompey’s Player of the Year.
  • Other strikers came and went during a turbulent era at the club but Reynolds played on until the relegation season of 1975–76, his last game being a 3-1 win at Blackburn Rovers in February 1976. Reynolds left Portsmouth after a Football League Tribunal in which Reynolds was awarded a substantial amount of compensation for wages he later described as "disgusting".
  • The tribunal also instructed Portsmouth to release Reynolds from his contract as they couldn't pay him.
  • He never received the payment owed to him.Reynolds left Portsmouth in February 1976 to sign for the Dutch Eredivisie side Haarlem.
  • Reynolds career was cut short by a serious knee injury sustained playing against Ajax Amsterdam.
  • He later had spells as player-manager of non-league Chichester City (three-times), Petersfield, Fareham Town, Wick (twice) and Newport (IOW). Reynolds won three England Youth caps, playing in a 3–0 victory against Spain and defeats against France (1–2) and Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1966 whilst with Plymouth.

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