The Club is deeply saddened to study of the passing of Terry Dyson, a key member of Bill Nicholson’s all-conquering staff of the early Sixties. He was 91.
Famously small in stature at 5ft 3ins, Terry was the person for the large event.
He scored within the FA Cup Final as we clinched the ‘double’ of league championship and FA Cup in 1961 and produced arguably his greatest show within the 1963 European Cup Winners’ Cup Final, when he scored twice as we beat Atletico Madrid 5-1 to turn out to be the primary British facet to say a European trophy.
Terry additionally stays the one Spurs participant to attain a hat-trick within the north London derby.
Born in Malton, Yorkshire on 29 November, 1934, the son of jockey ‘Ginger’ Dyson, Terry was invited for a trial after a Spurs scout watched him rating 5 targets for the Army in a match towards the Guards. He joined us as an newbie in December, 1954 earlier than signing skilled kinds in April, 1955.
Terry went on to spend 10 profitable years at White Hart Lane. Famed for his tenacious nature and fierce aggressive spirit, he spent his early days as understudy to George Robb and Terry Medwin earlier than Cliff Jones’ arrival in 1958 would seem to restrict his possibilities once more however, regardless of curiosity from different golf equipment, Bill stored him at Spurs and it paid dividends.
Playing primarily down the left flank, with Cliff on the best of a formidable ahead line, Terry began 47 of our 49 matches within the double season, weighing in with a formidable 17 targets (12 within the league, 5 within the FA Cup) and none extra necessary than his diving header within the FA Cup Final towards Leicester City, the place our 2-0 win noticed us turn out to be the primary staff to clinch the league and FA Cup ‘double’ within the twentieth century.
His most well-known second in a white shirt arrived two years later, when he scored twice as we grew to become the primary British staff to win a European trophy with a 5-1 demolition of Atletico Madrid within the remaining of the European Cup Winners’ Cup.
His team-mate and fellow goalscorer within the 1961 FA Cup Final, striker Bobby Smith, mentioned to Terry afterwards, ‘you higher retire now, you will by no means play higher’.
Terry stayed for an additional two years, taking his complete of appearances in all competitions to 209, scoring an excellent tally of 55 targets.
From Spurs, Terry moved to Fulham in May, 1965 and had spells at Colchester, Guildford City and Wealdstone earlier than managerial stints at Kingsbury, Wingate, Dagenham – the place he gained the FA Trophy in 1980 – Boreham Wood, Ruislip and Kingsbury Town.
He was then a referee’s observer for the Premier Academy League for a spell from 1999, when he was a daily customer to matches at our former coaching floor, Spurs Lodge.
A real Spurs nice, we wish to ship our condolences to Terry’s household and associates at this unhappy time.