Career
Jimmy Mann began his career at Leeds United but failed to establish a regular place in the first team He joined Bristol City in 1974 and gained renown as a skillful attacking midfielder who played a role in the Robins" promotion to the First Division under Alan Dicks in 1976. He remained at the club until the 1981-1982 season, when he left the club as one of the "Ashton Gate Eight".
He is noted for scoring a spectacular long-range goal against Nottingham Forest during the Robins" stay in the First Division.
Brief spells at Barnsley, Scunthorpe United and Doncaster Rovers followed before moving into non-league football with Goole Town and Bentley Victoria. After retiring from football Jimmy Mann returned to hometown Goole as a mobile security officer for Securicor, then as a Company-op milkman and from 1994 a marine operator at Goole Docks.
