Season 1 - 5 Guest Character Directory: J

 

 

 

 

Duration: Episode

Duration: Season

Year(s)

 

Jack Fellows (Jonathan Oliver)

182 - 183

3.42 - 3.43

2000

Shareholder who is a lifelong fan of the club. Jack leads the other board members in challenging Jerry on the concerning status of the club's finances under his chairmanship. He is there to witness Lynda publicly accusing Jerry of murder, and warns Marilyn dire action is needed before the club enters a Crystal Palace-type situation. Disillusioned too with how the modern game of football had become all about profiteering, Jack sells his 15% shares in the club to Prashant Dattani for four million pounds.

Jake Conlon (Billy Hill)

203 - 205, 207 - 208, 211, 213 - 216, 224, 228

4.1 - 4.3, 4.5 - 4.6, 4.9, 4.11 - 4.14, 4.22, 4.26

 2000 - 2001

Matt and Lizzie Conlon's second child, who is six years old when his father signs for Harchester. Jake suffers from Asthma, and has a bad attack the day the family move into their new home at The Barrons. He later gets into a fight with a Chelsea supporting classmate who said his dad was rubbish. At the last game of the season, he and Emma walk out onto the pitch with Matt, before he leaves the club to join Bolton.

Jessica Moore 62 1.62 1998 Natalie Hocknell's infant daughter, born when she was in her mid-teens, and has been raised by Natalie's parents as their own. Attends Natalie's wedding to Dean.

Jimmy Sanders (Gordon Cameron)

155

3.15

1999

Dream Inc.'s visiting agent as Harchester lose to Aston Villa at the Lair. He has been sent by his paymasters who are worried about the club being linked to criminality involving fraud and possible murder connected to chairman Jerry and the Wembley shootings. Sanders tells Jerry if Dream Inc drop Harchester they lose £1M a year, so Jerry brainstorms getting Dream Inc head Mr Yoshimoto to the upcoming Rangers game to show him the club are still winners.

Joe Cassidy (Tom Roberts)

215, 217

4.13, 4.15

2001

Officer from Immigration services, who takes Monday Bandele into custody at his first Harchester training session for not having a valid visa and work permit to play in the UK. When Monday marries a UK citizen in Siobhan McGovern, and is seen kissing his one-time fiancée Lola Olukwu, Cassidy swoops in with an unannounced home visit. Some quick thinking from Siobhan, including tales of she and Monday's sex life(!), send a put-off Cassidy on his way.

Joe Rawsthorne (Andy Moore)

227, 257, 260

4.25, 5.29, 5.32

2001, 2002

The man whom Danny believed was his father his whole life, Joe was a gambler whose addiction had destroyed his marriage and relationship with his children. By the time Danny is eighteen, at his request, Joe is apparently stable enough to be a support for Jamie as he battles the same addiction. A year later, Joe has fallen off the wagon and drinking is now his primary problem. When Danny is angry at Joe for turning up to a Sky Sports piece drunk, Joe informs him he isn't his real father after Danny's mother had an affair. In order to force Danny into a lucrative move to Atletico Madrid, Taylor Doyle records Danny and Joe talking about his non-Irish heritage, which he pays Joe for, and Joe later plans to make more money by selling the tape to Paul Hankin, though he is tricked into handing it over for free.

Johnny (Geoff Kenion)

230

5.2

2001

Fixer who approaches Alan Rothman in Mallorca over Milan's interest in him becoming their director of football. Has the second name "Ritzenella", which gives the impression he was written with Johnny Rizzanella played by Geoff Cotton in Season 3 in mind. However, with the differently spelt second name, Geoff Kenion's character being around twenty years older and looking nothing like the character played by Cotton, Dream Team Diehard treats them as separate characters.

Johnny Rizzanella (Geoff Cotton)

143 - 144, 197

3.3 - 3.4, 3.57

1999, 2000

Cool-as-a-cucumber fixer who is assigned by Luis to put out interest on finding him a new club. Johnny visits Luis at his hotel room in Amsterdam while the team are playing Ajax in the UEFA Cup First Round Second Leg, and sympathizes with him over the FA Cup final shooting. Johnny brings Ricardo Valdez from Real Madrid to see Luis play, and at the airport when Luis is due to fly back to Harchester for a breakfast meeting, Johnny persuades him to stay and talk with Ricardo, ultimately saving Luis from boarding the doomed private jet which crashes. Prashant Dattani later appoints Johnny to find Luis a transfer in exchange for Luis persuading Lynda to sell him her majority shares.

Journalist (Nicholas Tizzard)

223

4.21

2001

Conducts Maria Kitson's photoshoot and tabloid-tell-all on her uneventful engagement to Eddie and videotape seduction by Karl Fletcher.

Julie (Rita Simons)

247

5.19

2002

Member of girl group The Sirens who are shooting a music video in Harchester i.e. they aren't very good. Julie and band mate Molly think they have discovered their career-extending options when they hook up with Harchester players. Julie latches onto Gary Peggs, and offers Peggsy ecstasy which he at first turns down, but accepts from Molly when Danny refuses and is called boring by the girls. The result is Peggsy's career-ending swimming pool accident.