John Emlyn Jarman was a Welsh footballer and coach

Coach (sport)

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As a player, Jarman began his career at Wolverhampton Wanderers

Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club that represents the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands region. They are members of the Premier League, the highest level of English football. The club was founded in 1877 and since 1889 has played at...

, but never played for the club, in part because of a serious knee injury. He was sold to Barnsley

Barnsley F.C.

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 in 1950 for an £8,000 transfer fee. In six years at Oakwell, he played 47 games and scored two goals. He later moved to Walsall

Walsall F.C.

Walsall Football Club are an English association football club based in Walsall, West Midlands. They currently play in League One. The club was founded in 1888 as Walsall Town Swifts, an amalgamation of Walsall Town F.C. and Walsall Swifts F.C. The club was one of the founder members of the Second...

 as player-coach. In 1958, he retired as a player because of injuries.

In 1962, Jarman became chief coach at West Bromwich Albion

West Bromwich Albion F.C.

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. Five years later, he joined the FA as a regional staff coach with responsibility for the Midlands

English Midlands

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, and subsequently held a similar job for the Football Association of Ireland

Football Association of Ireland

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. He returned to club football in 1977, when he rejoined Wolverhampton Wanderers, and held a senior coaching role serving under managers John Barnwell

John Barnwell

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, Sammy Chung

Sammy Chung

Cyril "Sammy" Chung is an English former football player and manager. His father was Chinese and his mother English.-Playing career:...

 and Ian Greaves

Ian Greaves

Ian Denzil Greaves was an English football player and manager. He was born in Crompton, Lancashire. He won a League Championship medal and an FA Cup runners-up medal while playing fullback for Manchester United between 1953 and 1960...

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In March 1983, following Ian Greaves' appointment as manager of Mansfield Town

Mansfield Town F.C.

Mansfield Town Football Club is an English football club from the former mining town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The club was formed in 1897 as Mansfield Wesleyans and changed its name to Mansfield Wesley in 1906 before settling on Mansfield Town in 1910...

, Jarman was named the club's assistant manager. Greaves and Jarman worked together at Field Mill

Field Mill

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 for the next six years, which are widely regarded as one of Mansfield's most successful periods in the club's history, winning promotion in 1985–86, and winning the Freight Rover Trophy

Football League Trophy

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 at Wembley the following season.

Jarman left Mansfield Town in September 1988, and later worked for Derby County

Derby County F.C.

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, where he helped to establish the Rams Soccer Academy in the early 1990s. In his later years, he settled in Forest Town

Forest Town, Nottinghamshire

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 near Mansfield

Mansfield

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, and helped out coaching youngsters at his local football club Forest Town Welfare until 2008. He died in October 2009, aged 78.