John Dick (footballer born 1930)
John Dick, nickname or Johnny Jackson ( born March 19, 1930 in Govan, Glasgow, † September 2000) was a Scottish football player. Dick was one of the best scorers in the history of the London club West Ham United, for whom he scored 166 official matches Hits 1953-1962.
Club career
John Dick played in his hometown of Glasgow in Maryhill Harp and trained as a machinist before he was stationed in 1950 during his military service in the English Colchester. There he joined the Amateur Athletic Club Crittall and made with his performances for interest in several professional clubs. West Ham United's manager Ted Fenton finally secured the services of the left half striker just before even the local rivals Tottenham Hotspur Dick wanted to sign them. His professional debut in the Second Division was Dick on August 19, 1953 in a 5-0 home win for the season opener against Lincoln City FC, he scored his first goal in his 13th deployment, a 1-2 defeat at Derby County. Dick established himself in the following seasons as a regular scorer at West Ham, but it was the obligation of center forward Vic Keeble in October 1957 caused a rise ambitions, after 26 years of Erstligaabstinenz. The interaction between Keeble and Dick worked well from the outset, at the end of the season both had together 40 of the 101 goals this season West Ham achieved than you as second division champions realized the return to the First Division. The first Erstligasaison 1958/59 joined West Ham on the 6th place in the table from Dick contributed 27 goals as a team internally leading scorer instrumental in and surpassed his scoring record of 26 goals from the 1954/55 season. In the following years he acted occasionally as captain, 1961/62 he finished second in the election of the club 's internal player of the year 2nd place. At the time of his departure came at West Ham a new generation of players to the eventual champions from 1966, Bobby Moore, Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst, after; with 166 hits in 351 official matches missions he is behind Vic Watson ( 326) and Geoff Hurst (252 ) together with Jimmy Ruffell third best scorer in the history of West Ham United.
In September 1962 Dick joined for £ 17,500 fee in the Fourth Division for Brentford FC, which he in his first season with 23 goals helped to the league championship and promotion to the Third Division. In 1965 he finished his professional career and left his career in the Southern League at Gravesend & Northfleet finish. After his playing career, he was at the beginning of the 1970s the newcomers from West Ham United operates; main occupation he was, as his former teammate Lawrie Leslie with the Inner London Education Authority hired. He died in September 2000.
National
Dick played in 1950, once for the youth national team of Scotland, 1954, an application for the Scottish B team finished in a 1-1 draw against the English B- selection. At its sole use in the senior national team of Scotland came Dick on April 11, 1959 against England in the British Home Championship before nearly 100,000 fans at Wembley Stadium. Scotland striker series continued in this role from Graham Leggat, Bobby Collins, David Herd, John Dick and Willie Ormond together, Dick himself described his appearance at the 0-1 defeat later as "one of the worst performances of my career ."
Achievements
- Master of the Second Division: 1957/58
- Master of the Fourth Division: 1962/63