Alan Dicks

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Alan Dicks
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Alan Dicks in May 1955
Personnel
Surname Alan Victor Dicks
birthday August 29, 1934
place of birth Kennington ,  England
position Middle / external runner
Juniors
Years station
Dulwich Hamlet
Rainham Town
Millwall FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1951-1958 Chelsea FC 33 (1)
1958–1962 Southend United 85 (2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1967-1980 Bristol City
1982-1983 Ethnikos Piraeus
1984-1985 Apollon Limassol
1989-1990 al-Rayyan SC
1990-1991 Fulham FC
1996-1997 Carolina Dynamo
1999-2001 Charleston Battery
1 Only league games are given.

Alan Victor Dicks (born August 29, 1934 in Kennington ) is a former English football player and coach . He was best known as the long-time coach of Bristol City , which he supervised between 1967 and 1980 and led to the top English division.

Athletic career

Born in London, Dicks joined Chelsea in his home town at the age of 17 . The professional career started slowly there and in the first four years he only played four competitive games. These included his debut on December 13, 1952 against Manchester City (0: 4) and the use on April 2, 1955 against Tottenham Hotspur (4: 2), which was his only one in Chelsea's 1954/55 championship season . Part of the reason for his rare probationary chances was that he did two years of military service with the Royal Air Force . Dicks, who ran up in the middle or in the outer positions, had his best time in Chelsea in the 1956/57 season, when he played 20 compulsory games. A good year later, in November 1958, he moved two leagues down to Southend United .

He spent almost four years in Southend-on-Sea before retiring from the active career and becoming a co-trainer for Jimmy Hill at Coventry City in 1962 . On Hill's recommendation, he took over the head coach role at the then second division Bristol City in 1967 at the age of just 33 . In the course of his thirteen years at the club, he was promoted to the top English league in 1976 . In addition, they made it to the semi-finals of the League Cup in the 1970/71 season and won the Anglo-Scottish Cup in 1978 . He remained Bristol City's first division coach for four years before relegation in 1980 and a poor start to the following season in October 1980 led to his resignation. In the 1980s he took on coaching positions in Greece with Ethnikos Piraeus and in Cyprus with Apollon Limassol . He then worked for al-Rayyan SC and won the Qatari championship there in 1990.

Dicks found his way back to London in 1990. At Fulham , his sponsor Jimmy Hill had meanwhile become president and at the club, which had crashed into the third division, Dicks should primarily support head coach Ray Lewington as an "advisor". At the beginning of the 1990/91 season Hill replaced Lewington with his "Spezi" Dicks, with whom he was promoted to the first division in Coventry. More than two decades later, however, Dicks found little means in the modernized football. In generally troubled times at Fulham, Dicks was not “up to date” with the players, opponents and modern tactics, which the longtime player Simon Morgan in particular later described. In the end he only collected 46 points - less than in the relegation season three years later - and when Fulham lost in the FA Cup to the amateur club FC Hayes shortly afterwards , the signs were goodbye. A series of five defeats resulted in his dismissal in late 1991.

In the further course of the 1990s, Dicks moved to the United States. There he was in charge of the second-rate A-League Carolina Dynamo and Charleston Battery .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player Profile: Alan Dicks (stamford-bridge.com)
  2. ^ Turner, Dennis: Fulham - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-85983-566-1 , pp. 231-232 .
  3. ↑ Profile of Alan Dicks (leaguemanagers.com)
personal data
SURNAME Dicks, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dicks, Alan Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Kennington