Nick Merry

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Personal information
Full name Nicholas Merry
Date of birth 1961 or 1962 [1]
Place of birth Woodstock, England
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
?–1979 Oxford United
1979 Norwich City
1979–1982 Witney Town
1983–? Kansas City Comets
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nicholas Merry is a British businessman who active in the United States who ran a now defunct Florida-based dental biotechnology company called MicroDenteX as well as investing in gemstones in Guinea.

Until 2 October 2008, Merry was chairman of Oxford United Football Club, [2] the club he has supported all his life. He played youth football for the club in the 1970s before a knee injury ended his career prematurely. He also played football for England at schoolboy level. [3]

Merry was part of Woodstock Partners Limited (or WPL), a consortium headed up by Ian Lenagan that bought the club for £1 from former chairman Firoz Kassam.

Notes

  1. ↑ http://archive.oxfordmail.net/2007/8/25/183091.html%5B%5D
  2. ↑ Edwards, Mark (2 October 2008). "Merry Steps Down as U's Chairman". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Conn, David (28 March 2006). "History lesson repeats warning for Oxford dreamers". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2016.

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