Julian Dicks

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Julian Dicks
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Julian Dicks (2008)
Personnel
Surname Julian Andrew Dicks
birthday August 8, 1968
place of birth Bristol ,  England
size 178 cm
position Full-back (left)
Juniors
Years station
Birmingham City
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1985-1988 Birmingham City 89 0(1)
1988-1993 West Ham United 159 (29)
1993-1994 Liverpool FC 24 0(3)
1994-1999 West Ham United 103 (21)
2001-2002 Canvey Island 4 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1988 England U-21 4 0(0)
1992 England B 2 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2009 Wivenhoe Town
2009-2011 Grays Athletic
2013 Selection of Sealand
2014-2015 West Ham United Ladies
2018-2019 Heybridge Swifts
1 Only league games are given.

Julian Andrew Dicks (born August 8, 1968 in Bristol ) is a former English football player . As a defender mostly used on the left side of defense, he was best known in the 1990s as a West Ham United player. Dicks was considered a "rough leg" in English football, which earned him the nickname "Terminator" and involved him in numerous controversies on and off the field. In addition to his tough duel, he was noticed by a powerful shot and as a penalty specialist.

Athletic career

Birmingham City (1985-88)

From a young age, Dicks was examined by talent scouts, for example, when he was 11, ex-Tottenham coach Bill Nicholson (now a scout for West Ham United ) found him not to be fast enough. Two years later Ron Veal recommended him for Aston Villa and when Veal followed the resignation of head coach Ron Saunders to the new employer Birmingham City , the young Dicks moved north to start a football training in Birmingham. He worked his way through the age groups successively in the years to come before he made his debut in the first team on August 24, 1985 in a 2-0 defeat against Chelsea at the age of 17. At the end of the 1985/86 season Dicks rose with Birmingham in the second division. After two more years in the Second Division , he hired back in March 1988 in the English top division at West Ham United, which was then coached by John Lyall and paid a transfer fee of 300,000 pounds for Dicks.

West Ham United, Part 1 (1988-93)

The debut for the newcomer, who already had a reputation as a gruff defender with numerous warning cards, took place on April 2, 1988 against Sheffield Wednesday (1: 2). He completed a total of eight league games in the closing stages of the 1987/88 season, before he became a regular on the left defensive side in the subsequent season 1988/89 and played 34 of 38 possible championship games. Nevertheless, his first full year in West Ham ended disappointingly with relegation as penultimate . Under the new coach Lou Macari , Dicks was not only promoted to team captain for the first time in the 1989/90 season; he also took over from Ray Stewart as a regular penalty taker. In it he developed a special talent and in the course of his career he missed only four of 35 penalties for West Ham. A low point was his first red card in the fourth round of the league cup against Wimbledon FC . In the game that was brutally conducted by both sides, which British journalist Brian Woolnough dubbed “a disgrace for football”, Wimbledon's Dennis Wise had previously been rude to Dicks fouled. The season goal resurgence missed West Ham, whereupon Macari's resignation and the commitment of ex-player Billy Bonds as a successor followed.

With Bonds, who like Dicks had a reputation as a "tough dog", the injury problems began. In mid-October 1990 Dicks injured himself against Bristol City and although the medical department recommended surgery on the cartilage of his knee, Coach Bonds let him not only play the Bristol game to the end, but also the following encounter against Swindon Town . The expiration ended after 38 minutes and the next attempt against Blackburn Rovers in the following month had to be canceled with his substitution. Necessary knee surgery followed, and Dicks didn't make his comeback until December 21, 1991, after West Ham had since advanced to the premier league without him . After his return in the second half of the 1991/92 season, however, he had to start the direct relegation to the second division again with the "Hammers" as bottom of the table . There, the 1992/93 season was turbulent and after assault and gross foul play against Franz Carr from Newcastle United , Paul Birch and Steve Bull from Wolverhampton Wanderers and against Ted McCinn from Derby County , he was sent off the field three times. Coach Bonds withdrew from him the task of team captain, but despite this indiscipline Dicks contributed eleven goals to the second division championship , which West Ham rose to the Premier League. After seven appearances in his first Premier League season for the Hammers, Dicks moved to Liverpool for £ 1.5million . The transfer included a barter deal that saw David Burrows and Mike Marsh move in the opposite direction. In addition, West Ham was able to sign experienced striker Lee Chapman with the "change" .

Liverpool FC (1993-94)

Liverpool coach Graeme Souness wanted to “toughen” the defense with Dicks and place him on the side of the infamous Neil Ruddock . The newcomer quickly established himself and got a grip on his lack of restraint. The fact that he still did not find happiness in Liverpool was initially due to the dismissal of Souness in February 1994. He was replaced by his former co-trainer Roy Evans , who strangled with Dicks himself and his style of play. In addition, Dicks was considered overweight and as a result he was transferred to the reserve team. He ran on May 7, 1994 in the 1: 2 against Aston Villa for the last time for the "Reds". After Dicks was criticized again by Evans after a 1: 4 against Bolton Wanderers in preparation for the new 1994/95 season, he asked for clearance for a change and so he returned to the Hammers, now trained by Harry Redknapp , in October 1994 back.

West Ham United, Part 2 (1994-99)

In the early years of his return to 1997, Dicks was an important pillar of the West Ham United side in the successful battle to stay relegated to the Premier League. During this time he scored 21 goals in 94 top division games and was also the focus of the English national team in the run-up to the 1996 European Championship in his own country . One of the reasons why England coach Terry Venables did not take him into account were two new incidents in September 1995, which strengthened doubts about the discipline of Dicks. On the one hand, he injured John Spencer from Chelsea FC on the head, so that it had to be sewn with eight stitches. Shortly thereafter, he was sent off for the eighth time in his career against Arsenal after a foul on Ian Wright . Even under Venables' successor Glenn Hoddle , Dicks did not get a chance to parole.

Another knee injury ensured that he missed the entire 1997/98 season and completed only nine games in the following 1998/98 season . He and his men qualified for the UEFA Cup that year, but his injuries had increased so much that he ended his active career after 14 years as a professional. His farewell game against Athletic Bilbao in August 2000 felt little like a friendly, especially when a mass tussle broke out during the game.

Career end and change to the coaching business

In 2001, Dicks appeared again briefly for the Canvey Island amateur club and moved to Spain before gradually switching to the coaching business at the end of the 2000s. Here he was initially outside the professional business for Wivenhoe Town (2009) and Gray's Athletic (2009-2011), before he supervised a selection of the micronation Sealand in July 2013 on the occasion of a tournament on the Isle of Man . In the 2014/15 season he was responsible for the women's team at his ex-club West Ham before his former team-mate Slaven Bilić hired him as a co- coach in June 2015 . After his dismissal in November 2017, Dicks also left the club. In October 2018 he joined the Heybridge Swifts in the Isthmian League before he was once again assistant to Bilić, who had meanwhile become the coach of the second division West Bromwich Albion .

Title / Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Julian Dicks  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirk Blows: Authorized Julian Dicks Story Paperback, (pages 19-35, 70, 318)
  2. ↑ Hammers in the Heart: A Lifetime of Supporting West Ham (Google Books)
  3. ↑ Kirk Blows: Authorized Julian Dicks Story Paperback, (pp. 100, 117, 118, 154, 156)
  4. ↑ Players - Julian Dicks (LFCHistory.net)
  5. ↑ MAD KEANE HAMMERED ME BECAUSE I REFUSED TO SAVE HIS BUTT; JULIAN DICKS (www.thefreelibrary.com)
  6. ↑ Brawl mars Dicks' benefit match (BBC Sport)
  7. ↑ Wivenhoe part company with Dicks (BBC Sport)
  8. ↑ Grays Athletic and Julian Dicks go separate ways (BBC Sport)
  9. ↑ Tim Flowers and Julian Dicks eye up Market Drayton role (Shropshire Star)
  10. ↑ Julian Dicks joins former team-mate Slaven Bilic's staff at West Ham (The Guardian)
  11. ↑ Boing! Dicks joins the Baggies (Isthmian Football League)
personal data
SURNAME Dicks, Julian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dicks, Julian Andrew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol