Terry Dyson

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Terry Dyson
Personnel
Surname Terence Kent Dyson
birthday November 29, 1934
place of birth Malton ,  England
position Winger (left)
Juniors
Years station
Scarborough FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1954-1965 Tottenham Hotspur 184 (41)
1965-1968 Fulham FC 23 0(3)
1968-1970 Colchester United 56 0(4)
Guildford City
Wealdstone FC
1 Only league games are given.

Terence Kent "Terry" Dyson (born November 29, 1934 in Malton ) is a former English football player . As a small, lively and persistent left winger , he was one of the regular players at Tottenham Hotspur , who won the "double" in the English championship and the FA Cup in 1961 . He was one of the goalscorers in the cup final as well as two years later in the victorious final of the European Cup winners' competition .

Athletic career

Dyson comes from the county of North Yorkshire and initially played lower class football at Scarborough FC . His military service at the Royal Artillery then took him to the London borough of Woolwich and when he scored five goals in a game between the armed forces against the guards there, he was invited by Tottenham Hotspur to a trial training - his later teammate Ron Henry was also on this team discovered. This worked out to everyone's satisfaction and so Dyson signed his first contract with the Spurs in December 1954 in a café directly opposite the barracks - he was still part of the army and was not released until March 1955. He made his debut on March 19, 1955 against Sheffield United (5-0) as a substitute for George Robb , which was his only use in the 1954/55 season. His place at Tottenham was mostly in the reserve team that was active in the Football Combination to find throughout the 1950s . It was only when Bill Nicholson became a new coach in October 1958 that the perspective of the small, dangerous left wing runabout improved and during the 1959/60 season this continuously gained a regular place.

When Tottenham won the "double" from the English championship and FA Cup in the 1960/61 season , Dyson was part of the 5-man storm (with Cliff Jones , who dodged to the right as left winger, and Les Allen , John in the center White and Bobby Smith ). Dyson missed only two games in the entire season, in which he was represented by Terry Medwin - at least the current Welsh international at the time - who in turn actually had his regular position on the right wing. In addition to the twelve league goals, Dyson was also successful in the cup and one of the five goals was the 2-0 final in the final against Leicester City . The decisive factor for Dyson this year was that he was considered less talented compared to the actually preferred Jones and Medwin, but was highly valued for his commitment. On the left, the good teamwork with Dave Mackay was one of the key factors in the Spurs building game. It was all the more disappointing for Dyson that in the following year he was still present in the first two rounds of the European Cup , but in the quarter-finals as well as in the semifinals, which were lost to Benfica , back in the pecking order behind Jones and Medwin fell back. In addition, he did not contribute to successfully defending the title in the FA Cup in 1962 and was not represented in any of the rounds. In the following year he was part of the regular staff in the European Cup Winners' Cup from the semi-finals and in the 5-1 runaway win in the final against Atlético Madrid , he contributed two goals to 3-1 and the final score. Above all, the goal to make it 3-1 caused the game to calm down after the Spaniard's goal in a phase when Tottenham came under increasing pressure. Dyson retrospectively rated his performance in the European final as the best of his entire career. Dyson stayed in Tottenham for two years before moving to first division rivals Fulham FC in London in June 1965 .

In Fulham, Dyson was only a fixture at the beginning of the 1965/66 season and was a regular on the left until mid-November 1965. Coach Vic Buckingham then only used him as a supplementary player and mostly the young Les Barrett was the first choice for the "Cottagers". In his last two years, Dyson was only once in a league game in the starting XI. This was on the last day of the 1967/68 season against Everton (1: 5), when relegation to the second division was already certain. He then let his active career in the fourth division with Colchester United and then in the Southern League at Guildford City end until 1970 .

Then Dyson worked as a player-coach for Wealdstone FC , won the Southern League championship there and then took on a cotrainer position at Dagenham FC . The greatest success in Dagenham was winning the FA Trophy in 1980 . Further engagements in lower-class football at Boreham Wood FC, Kingsbury Town and in Ruislip followed, while at the same time he created a professional foothold in the education authority of the Hampstead School. He continued to play football when he often acted as an observer of games in the youth academy for the English Football Association . His son Simon , born in 1977 , became his professional golfer and followed the sporting family tradition after Terry Dyson's father Ginger had already been a successful jockey - the Dyson family also got their own riding stable called Dyson Racing (including the horse “Miss Van Gogh ").

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "The Double: The Inside Story of Spurs' Triumphant 1960-61 Season" (Google Books)
  2. ↑ "Terry Dyson 1955-1965" (tottenhamhotspur.com)
  3. ↑ "Footballing great Terry Dyson celebrates his 80th birthday" (York Press)
personal data
SURNAME Dyson, Terry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dyson, Terence Kent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Malton