Terry Jolley

Jolley joined Queens Park Rangers as a schoolboy before signing an apprentice contract with Gillingham in July 1976.^[1] Four months later he signed a professional contract with the club.^[1] He made his debut for the team in a 2–0 defeat away to Brighton & Hove Albion in December 1976, but it was to prove to be the only game he played that season.^[2] Although he scored goals regularly with the reserve team,^[1] he struggled to break into the first team and did not play for them again until October 1978, when he came on as a substitute and scored the second goal in a 2–0 victory over Hull City.^[3] He finished the season with 14 league and cup appearances and 5 goals, including scoring twice in a 3–3 draw with Bury.^[3]

Despite having been a semi-regular in the team in the 1978–79 season and their fourth-highest goalscorer, Jolley only made seven appearances in the following campaign,^[4] and was allowed to leave the club, joining Dover in September 1980 for a transfer fee of £4,000, a new record for the highest fee paid by the club.^[1] He later briefly played for Gravesend & Northfleet before joining Folkestone, whose manager Alf Bentley had also managed him at Dover.^[5] He played 173 games for the club and scored 74 goals,^[5] but his playing career came to an end when he suffered a compound leg fracture during a game in January 1986. His former club Gillingham sent a team to play Folkestone in a benefit match for him later that year.^[1][5][6]