Terry Jolley
{{short description|English footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2019}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Terry Jolley
| image =
| caption =
| full_name = Terence Arthur Jolley
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|4|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bermondsey, England
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=11}}
| position = Forward
| youthclubs1 = Queens Park Rangers
|youthyears2=1976|youthclubs2=Gillingham
| years1 = 1976–1980 | clubs1 = Gillingham | caps1 = 21 | goals1 = 5
| years2 = 1980–1982 | clubs2 = Dover
| years3 = 1982–1983 | clubs3 =Gravesend & Northfleet
| years4 = 1983–1986 | clubs4 = Folkestone
}}
Terence Arthur Jolley (born 13 April 1959) is an English former professional footballer who was active in the 1970s and 1980s. He made 21 appearances in The Football League for Gillingham.
Career
Jolley joined Queens Park Rangers as a schoolboy before signing an apprentice contract with Gillingham in July 1976.{{cite book | first=Roger|last= Triggs | title=The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club| publisher=Tempus Publishing Ltd | year=2001| isbn=0-7524-2243-X|page=177}} Four months later he signed a professional contract with the club. He made his debut for the team in a 2–0 defeat away to Brighton & Hove Albion in December 1976, but it was to prove to be the only game he played that season.{{cite book | last = Brown | first = Tony | title = The Definitive Gillingham F.C.: A Complete Record | publisher = Soccerdata | year = 2003 | isbn = 978-1-8994-6820-1 |location=Nottingham|page=86}} Although he scored goals regularly with the reserve team, he struggled to break into the first team and did not play for them again until October 1978, when he came on as a substitute and scored the second goal in a 2–0 victory over Hull City.{{cite book | last = Brown | first = Tony | title = The Definitive Gillingham F.C.: A Complete Record | publisher = Soccerdata | year = 2003 | isbn = 978-1-8994-6820-1 |location=Nottingham|page=88}} He finished the season with 14 league and cup appearances and 5 goals, including scoring twice in a 3–3 draw with Bury.
Despite having been a semi-regular in the team in the 1978–79 season and their fourth-highest goalscorer, Jolley only made seven appearances in the following campaign,{{cite book | last = Brown | first = Tony | title = The Definitive Gillingham F.C.: A Complete Record | publisher = Soccerdata | year = 2003 | isbn = 978-1-8994-6820-1 |location=Nottingham|page=89}} and was allowed to leave the club, joining Dover in September 1980 for a transfer fee of £4,000, a new record for the highest fee paid by the club. He later briefly played for Gravesend & Northfleet before joining Folkestone, whose manager Alf Bentley had also managed him at Dover. He played 173 games for the club and scored 74 goals, but his playing career came to an end when he suffered a compound leg fracture during a game in January 1986. His former club Gillingham sent a team to play Folkestone in a benefit match for him later that year.{{Cite web|title=A Jolley good cause|work=Folkestone Herald|page=56|date=1 August 1986|access-date=13 September 2024|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/155224103}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005097/19860806/295/0028|title=Help for Terry in benefit match|work=Kent Evening Post|date=6 August 1986|page=28|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}