Manchester United´s Number Two

Jimmy Rim­mer

Born and bred in South­port, Jimmy Rim­mer signed pro­fes­sional terms with Manchester United at the begin­ning of the 1965–66 cam­paign. After mak­ing his First Divi­sion debut for Manchester United in a 3–0 win against at home to Ful­ham in April 1968, the deputy goal­keeper man­aged to make only 34 league appear­ances for the club before he was loaned out to Fourth Divi­sion side Swansea City in the autumn of 1973.

While with Swansea City, Jimmy Rim­mer man­aged to recap­ture his old form and the shot stop­per left Manchester United the fol­low­ing year when he received a new lease of life by shrewd Arsenal man­ager Ber­tie Mee who brought him to High­bury for a bar­gain trans­fer fee of £40,000 in Feb­ru­ary 1974. A doughty and depend­able goal­keeper, Rim­mer went on to appear in 124 league games for the North Lon­don club before new man­ager Terry Neill sold him to ambi­tious Aston Villa whom he helped win the First Divi­sion Cham­pi­on­ship title in 1980–81. Jimmy Rim­mer finally left Aston Villa at the end of the 1982–83 sea­son when he decided to join forces with old club Swansea where he stayed until 1986.

Jimmy Rim­mer won his only Eng­land cap in a 3–2 win against Italy in 1976.

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