Harold Jarman

He spent the majority of his lengthy footballing career with Bristol Rovers, where he is the club's third-highest goalscorer of all time and was inducted into their Hall of Fame in April 2021.

[1] After signing for Bristol Rovers in the summer, Jarman made his first team debut on Boxing Day 1959 in a Football League Second Division match against Swansea Town.

[10] Jarman earned himself a place in the Pirates history books in just his second season with the club, on 26 September 1960, when he scored Bristol Rovers' first ever goal in the Football League Cup.

[14] Bristol Rovers won the match 2–0,[15] but the occasion was overshadowed by a serious injury to their goalkeeper Dick Sheppard who was carried off by ambulancemen following a collision with Tranmere's Eddie Loyden during the first half.

After this the game became a bad tempered affair with the Rovers players aggrieved that Loyden hadn't been sent off, leading to numerous heavy tackles and confrontations between the two teams.

[16] By the time he finally left the Pirates Jarman had started 440 Football League matches, and made a further twelve appearances as a substitute, scoring 127 goals.

[21] At this point, prior to the 1995 Bosman ruling, players did not have to be released at the end of their contracts so Newport could have demanded a transfer fee for him if they felt he had any value and if they had wanted to do so.

[23] In 1974, Gordon Bradley, manager of the New York Cosmos, brought Jarman into the team to replace young American striker Joey Fink who had scored eleven goals in fourteen games in 1973.

Jarman formed a strong working relationship with the Pirates' youth liaison officer Gordon Bennett, recruiting many talented young footballers to the club.

[32] On 13 December 1979 the Bristol Rovers' first team manager, Scotsman Bobby Campbell, was relieved of his duties following a poor run of results which had left the club near the bottom of the Division Two league table.

[36] Cooper initially kept Jarman on as his assistant manager, but fired him on 22 September 1980, along with Bobby Campbell who was by this point the club's chief scout, in order to bring in his own coaching team.

[38] Jarman made his debut for the Gloucestershire first eleven on 8 July 1961 in a County Championship match against Middlesex at the Wagon Works Ground in Gloucester.

[39] Coincidentally, batting at number 8 in that lineup was wicket-keeper Barrie Meyer,[39] another dual-sport professional who like Jarman also played football for Bristol Rovers.

[39] He went on to play an average of about four games a season in the County Championship over an eleven-year spell, eventually making his final first class appearance against Yorkshire at Bramall Lane on 17–20 July 1971.