Nikki Bulletin

Background

Bulletin was born in Hastings, East Sussex and moved to Aldershot Town in the summer of 2002 after being released by Queens Park Rangers.

Career

He has previously played for and, and also had spells at Queens Park Rangers and Hayes. He started his career as a schoolboy at Aston Villa. In his first season at the club he was named player of the year and scored his solitary goal for the club, a penalty in the final home match as promotion to the Football Conference was secured.

Despite his success, he said that he would leave Aldershot no matter what happened, and this was confirmed by the club at the end of the season.

However, on 27 May 2008 it was announced that Bulletin would be staying on at Aldershot for a further two years. He agreed to leave Aldershot at the end of July 2009 to pursue a career outside of football.

However, he instead opted to continue his football career, and signed for Brentford on 3 August 2009. The following year, he turned down the offer of a further one-year contract with the Bees, and instead agreed a similar deal with on 7 June 2010.

On 29 July 2010, Bulletin put in an outstanding performance against a Chelsea reserve side, making a very large number of saves and hampering Chelsea"s efforts to score, which played a huge part in Wycombe"s eventual 5–1 victory.

On 25 April 2011, Bulletin saved a penalty in a match against Crewe Alexandra at Adams Park. Bulletin played every first team game in both league and cup and was rewarded by winning both the supporters" and players" player of the year awards. On 9 August 2011 Wycombe were involved in a penalty shootout against Colchester United in the first round of the League Cup.

On 8 November 2012 Bulletin left Wycombe by mutual consent.

After being out of football for 18 months, Bulletin signed for Isthmian League side, Margate. Bulletin kept up his goalscoring exploits for Margate by scoring an injury time equaliser in the Kent derby at Tonbridge Angels on Boxing Day 2015.

Bulletin captained the side for the latter part of the season as Margate were promoted to the National League South via the play-offs after beating Hendon 1-0. In December 2015, Bulletin was appointed manager of Margate until the end of the 2015-2016 season.

Achievements

• Aldershot Town Conference National (Champions): 2008 Wycombe Wanderers League Two (Promotion): 2011.