Football career

Nicholson began his career as a trainee with Doncaster Rovers

Doncaster Rovers F.C.

Doncaster Rovers Football Club is an English football club, based at the Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. The team currently competes in the Football League Championship, after being promoted via the League One play-offs in 2008, and have remained there since.The club was founded in...

 and was given his professional debut in 1988 by former Scotland

Scotland national football team

The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. Scotland are the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside England, whom they played in the world's first international football match in 1872...

 captain Billy Bremner

Billy Bremner

William John "Billy" Bremner was a Scottish professional footballer, most noted for his captaincy of the Leeds United team of the 1960s and 1970s. He has since been voted Leeds United's greatest player of all time and has a statue outside the South East corner of Elland Road...

. After 4 years at Belle Vue he moved on to Hereford United

Hereford United F.C.

Hereford United Football Club is an English professional football club based in the city of Hereford. Founded in 1924, they are competing in Football League Two in the 2011–12 season. Hereford have played at Edgar Street for their entire history and are nicknamed 'The Whites' or 'The Lilywhites',...

, Torquay United

Torquay United F.C.

Torquay United Football Club, nicknamed the Gulls, are an English association football club based in the tourist resort town of Torquay, Devon. They played in the Conference National in 2008–09, but were promoted to Football League Two after a 2–0 win over Cambridge United on 17 May 2009 at Wembley...

 and then Scunthorpe United

Scunthorpe United F.C.

Scunthorpe United Football Club is an English association football team based in the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, who play in the Football League One....

 playing in excess of 150 league games.

A skilful left sided midfielder,he never fulfilled his potential in England and moved on to play professionally in the Singapore S. League

S.League

The S.League is the top men's professional association football league in Singapore. The league was launched in 1996 and currently involves 12 clubs.-History:...

 with former Scunthorpe team-mate Stuart Young

Stuart Young

Stuart Young is an English footballer.-Career:Young’s senior football career began at Arsenal FC in 1990, before moving to his home town of Hull City in 1991. He spent two seasons at the Tigers, before spells at Northampton Town in 1993, Scarborough FC 1994, Scunthorpe United between 1994 to 1996,...

 for four years and was voted the Straits Times S League player of the year in 1997.

He played for Geylang United and Woodlands

Woodlands Wellington FC

Woodlands Wellington Football Club is a professional football club that plays in Singapore's professional football league, the S.League.The team's home ground is the Woodlands Stadium, which is at the northern part of Singapore...

 and acted as a witness in the match fixing scandal of 2000 as, after being attacked with a hockey stick along with fellow Woodlands player Ivica Raguz, two S League players, German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 goalkeeper Lutz Pfannenstiel

Lutz Pfannenstiel

Lutz Pfannenstiel is a German football goalkeeper.- Club career :Pfannenstiel is mostly famous for having played for 25 different clubs all around the world during his career, including stints in Germany, England, New Zealand, Singapore, USA, Brazil, South Africa, Finland, Malaysia, Malta,...

 and Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n defender Mirko Jurilj were jailed for alleged fixing of matches. Nicholson had originally been arrested along with fellow British players from Geylang United, Billy Bone and Brian Bothwell

Brian Bothwell

Brian Bothwell is a retired Australian football player and formerly played for Brunei in the M-League before retired.During his career with Brunei FC, he's converted to Islam and later his name is Brian Iman Bothwell....

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No charges were brought against Nicholson, it was actually found he played in the game where it was alleged he was to be paid not to play in.

Nicholson teamed up with Young for a third time in the National Soccer league of Australia, both playing for Wollongong Wolves

Wollongong Wolves

The South Coast Wolves Football Club is an Australian Association football club based in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia currently playing in the NSW Premier League.The club was formed in 2009 as a not for profit organisation, run and owned by the community since the financial...

, winning the championship in his first season. He was used mainly as a sub as it was difficult to dislodge Australian international Scott Chipperfield

Scott Chipperfield

Scott Kenneth Chipperfield is an Australian international football player who currently plays as a midfielder for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League.-Personal life:...

, but achieved something of a cult status amongst Wolves fans.

In July 2002 Nicholson joined Gainsborough Trinity

Gainsborough Trinity F.C.

Gainsborough Trinity Football Club are an English football club based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.Between 1896 and 1912 they were members of the Football League. They are currently in the Conference North, and play their home matches at The Northolme, which has a capacity of 4,304...

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After his professional football career ended, Nicholson started his own Gymnasium, in Brough, East Yorkshire. At the same time he moved into the Motor Industry in 2005 with Motor Depot, then onto Best Car Buyer before eventually becoming a director of Car Arena.

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