Tottenham, Arsenal and Northern Ireland goalkeeper.
English league career: Watford (1963); Tottenham Hotspurs (1964-77); Arsenal (1977-84).
Internationals: Debut (1964): 119 Full Caps; Last game aged 41 vs Brazil.
Other honours: FA Cup (Spurs: 1967); League Cup (1971 & 1973); UEFA Cup (1972); FA Cup (Arsenal: 1979);
Footballer of the Year (1973); Spurs’ Player of the Year (1972-76).

Pat`s Football League career started at Watford in May 1963, after he started in his own country with Newry Town but he moved to Spurs the following year for a fee of just £27,000 and spent 13 seasons at White Hart Lane where he was a key factor in; the 1967 FA Cup win, the Football League Cup triumphs of 1971 and 1973 and the UEFA Cup success in 1972. There was shock, horror in 1977 when Pat was transferred to arch North London rivals Arsenal, where he added seven years and 237 league appearances to his CV.

There was even more consternation among Spurs fans when Pat helped the Gunners reach three successive FA Cup finals though he had to wait for the third of those, in 1979, to gain his second winners medal, thanks to a 3-2 win over Manchester United in one of the most thrilling FA Cup Final of all time.

In total Pat, played 757 league games in his career and achieved a total of more than 1,000 league and international games and he even scored, in the 1967 Charity Shield, against Manchester United, when his long kick bounced over the head of his opposite number Alex Stepney and into the goal.

Pat was voted Footballer of the Year in 1973 and three years later became the Professional Footballers Association Player of the Year and subsequently received an MBE and OBE for services to football. In addition to a world record number of international appearances Pat Jennings also appeared in a United Kingdom XI, the All-Ireland XI and in a Common Market celebration game and it's a measure of the esteem in which Pat was held by Tottenham fans, that he was voted Spurs' Player of the Year for five consecutive years from 1972.

Pat Jennings was never regarded as a flash goalkeeper but as a master of the basics of his art. But he was just as capable of the stunning reflex save as he was at a safe gather at full stretch. Indeed his ‘trick', if you could call it that, was to take a high ball, at full stretch, with one of those massive hands, and he did it so often that it became his trademark. Pat ended his playing career, officially, as a Spurs player in 1986 and he returned to the club as a goalkeeping coach in 1993.