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Jamie Palmer

English footballer (born 1985)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ16223860
Source-derived summary

James Brian Palmer (born 25 November 1985) is an English footballer who plays as a right back. He began his career at Brentford, for whom he made one professional appearance before dropping into non-League football upon his release in 2005. Palmer moved into Sunday League football in 2007 and served as player-manager of Bell on the Green Casuals. He has sometimes been known as Brian Palmer.

Career

Brentford

Palmer began his career as a youth at Brentford and entered the club's Centre of Excellence at age 10. He progressed through the youth system to begin a scholarship in 2002. Palmer maiden call into the first team squad came on 24 August 2004, for a League Cup first round match versus Ipswich Town and he remained an unused substitute during the 2–0 defeat. Palmer received his second call into the first team squad for a Football League Trophy first round match against Milton Keynes Dons on 28 September 2004. Picked in a squad composed mostly of scholars, Palmer made his professional debut in the match and played the full 90 minutes of the 3–0 defeat. Palmer was an unused substitute on three further occasions during the 2004–05 season.

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“Jamie Palmer” enters the record as english footballer (born 1985). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jamie, Palmer and English can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2005, 2007, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-11-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jamie, Palmer and English.
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“Jamie Palmer” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jamie, Palmer and English provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16223860. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985, 2005, 2007 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from Jamie Palmer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.