Career
He was formerly a mechanical engineer in Portsmouth"s naval dockyards, and joined Southampton from Gosport Borough in July 1944. He made his league debut on 24 May 1947 in the 2–0 home victory over Fulham. He was a strong, powerful centre-half and replaced Eric Webber for 13 games in the following season when Webber was rested.
Once Webber regained his place in the team, Clements made no further first-team appearances until February 1951.
Foreign the following few seasons he alternated at centre-back with Len Wilkins and Henry Horton and had a spell as team captain in 1952-1953. He scored once in 116 league games before becoming player-coach at Basingstoke Town in February 1955.
After leaving football, he qualified as a civil engineer and worked in Kenya, Uganda and Sudan, before briefly helping to coach the Kenyan national team He returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s and now lives in Gosport.
