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Kieron Courtney Dyer (born 29 December 1978) is an English former professional
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who played as a
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. He was recently the U23s manager at
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. Born in
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, Dyer played youth football for his home club
Ipswich Town Ipswich Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. They play in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. The club was founded in 1878 but did not turn profession ...
before going on to make nearly 100 league appearances for the club's first team. He was sold to Newcastle United for £6 million, at the time the highest fee paid for an Ipswich player, and made nearly 200 appearances for Newcastle between 1999 and 2007. A move for the same fee to
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followed, but Dyer suffered from various injuries, restricting him to 30 league appearances in four seasons. After a short loan back to Ipswich in March 2011, he signed for newly promoted club
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ahead of their
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season. However, his time at QPR was again blighted by injuries and he made just eight appearances for the club before being released in January 2013, spending the rest of the season at
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before retiring. Dyer represented
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on 33 occasions between 1999 and 2007. He was a member of the England squads which reached the quarter-finals at the
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and
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.


Club career


Ipswich Town

Dyer was born in
Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line ...
, to an Antiguan father and English mother. Dyer's career began with his hometown team,
Ipswich Town Ipswich Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. They play in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. The club was founded in 1878 but did not turn profession ...
, whom he signed for as a 17-year-old trainee in 1996. He broke into the Ipswich first team during his first season at the club, and quickly established a reputation as one of the top youngsters in English football outside of the
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. He had spent three years at
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when he requested a transfer in order to further his international prospects following Ipswich's failure to gain promotion to the Premier League through the play-offs in 1999.


Newcastle United

Dyer was sold to Newcastle United in July 1999 for a fee of £6 million, which stood as the record transfer fee received by Ipswich Town until
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was sold to Sunderland. He was the only English player signed by
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during his spell as Newcastle's manager. Dyer opened his Newcastle goalscoring account at home to local rivals Sunderland, but the match ended in a 2–1 defeat, which saw Gullit resign shortly afterwards. Under Gullit's replacement,
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, Dyer was a key player in the Newcastle team which finished fourth, third and fifth in the 2001–02, 2002–03 and 2003–04 Premier League seasons respectively. On 2 April 2005, Dyer was involved in an on-pitch brawl with teammate
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in Newcastle's Premier League match with Aston Villa, and both had to be pulled apart and separated by their teammates and Villa players. This resulted in Dyer and Bowyer receiving
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s, leaving Newcastle with eight men as Steven Taylor had already been sent-off for a deliberate handball. Dyer was handed a three-match ban by the FA for the sending-off; Bowyer received a four-match ban from the FA and was fined more than six weeks' wages – about £200,000 – by Newcastle. Later in April, The FA increased Bowyer's ban by three more matches and fined him £30,000. In 2006 the Newcastle Magistrates' court fined Bowyer £600 and ordered him to pay £1,000 costs after he pleaded guilty to sparking the brawl. At the start of the 2005–06 season, Dyer was once again on the injured list, this time with a
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injury, preventing his selection for club or country. This followed a close-season in which Newcastle manager
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signed a number of other midfield players, including
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,
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,
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and
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. Dyer returned to first-team action on 4 February 2006 against
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, Newcastle's first match following the departure of Souness. Dyer marked his first start of the season since the opening day against Arsenal with a goal in a
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fifth round match against
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on 18 February 2006. Dyer became the first Newcastle United player to score at the Emirates Stadium in a 1–1 draw with Arsenal on 18 November 2006. In what was his first start in seven months, Dyer opened the match's scoring after 30 minutes with his first league goal for Newcastle in over 20 months. He continued his rich vein of form, also scoring against
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, Bolton Wanderers,
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, Aston Villa, AZ and
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. Following his return from injury, Dyer showed his versatility by playing in central midfield, right midfield and as an attacking midfielder, supporting
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. Dyer was given permission to speak to
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in August 2007 after both clubs agreed an undisclosed transfer fee. On 4 August, West Ham confirmed the deal had fallen through due to Newcastle's pulling out of the deal. However, the deal was rectified with Dyer finalising a move to Upton Park.


West Ham United

Dyer completed a move to West Ham on 16 August 2007 for £6 million, signing a four-year deal. He made his debut for West Ham in a 1–0 away win at
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on 18 August 2007. However, this was one of the few positives in Dyer's time at West Ham as he was thereafter blighted by injury. Just ten days after his debut, he was stretchered off after a tackle by
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in a
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match against
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that resulted in his right leg being broken in two places. Dyer subsequently missed the rest of the 2007–08 season. His injury was re-assessed in August 2008, when it was decided that a six-week specialist rehabilitation programme was required before he began pre-season training. During this time, Dyer's slow recovery from his injury sparked widespread speculation that his career may be over. On 3 January 2009, Dyer made his comeback for West Ham after 17 months out, coming on as a second-half substitute against Barnsley in the FA Cup third round tie at the Boleyn Ground. Dyer's injuries continued in May 2009 when he was ruled out with a
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injury. He played in West Ham's first match of the 2009–10 season against
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, but had problems with injuries after the match. He managed only one more match, away to
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, before hamstring problems hit again. He returned for two further matches before another injury in September kept him out until returning in a reserve match against Stoke City in November when he scored two goals. After taking over West Ham in January 2010, David Sullivan revealed the full extent of the club's debts, which totalled £110 million. Shortly afterwards, in addition to the swingeing cuts being made by vice-chairman
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, Sullivan suggested that Dyer should follow
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into retirement; Sullivan expressed the club's frustration that Dyer, who was earning £60,000 ''per'' week, had only played 18 matches in three years. Dyer's hometown club
Ipswich Town Ipswich Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. They play in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. The club was founded in 1878 but did not turn profession ...
had expressed an interest in re-signing Dyer, but the move stalled amid reports Dyer had demanded a £1 million pay-off from West Ham; the media had also speculated about whether Dyer could actually pass a medical. In May 2010, figures in ''
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'' stated that Dyer, who had made only 22 appearances and had never played a full 90 minutes for West Ham, was the club's top earner on £83,000-a-week. His deal included £424,000-a-season for image rights and £100,000 in loyalty fees. Dyer was released by West Ham at the end of the 2010–11 season, after costing the club around £450,000 for every match he played in.


Return to Ipswich Town (loan)

On 11 March 2011, Dyer returned to his first club, Ipswich Town, on a month-long loan. He was handed the number 30 shirt. He made his second debut for Ipswich at Elland Road against
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on 12 March before being substituted in the second half in a 0–0 draw. In April 2011, West Ham manager
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refused a request by Ipswich to retain Dyer until the end of the 2010–11 season, and he returned to West Ham after having made four appearances for Ipswich.


Queens Park Rangers

In July 2011, Dyer signed a one-year contract with
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. He made his debut on 13 August 2011, the opening day of the
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season, against Bolton Wanderers, but after just three minutes, he was stretchered off with an injured foot. During his recovery, he sustained ligament damage to his foot in a reserve match. This injury required surgery and he was ruled out for the remainder of the season. Because of his injury, Dyer was omitted from QPR's 25-man squad for the second half of the 2011–12 Premier League season. Despite only playing seven minutes of the 2011–12 season, Dyer signed a one-year contract extension with QPR to keep him at the club until the end of the 2012–13 season. Dyer scored his only goal for the club, in stoppage time, on 5 January 2013, in an FA Cup third round tie against
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to finish the match 1–1, his first goal in almost six years. Just three days later, he was released from QPR by manager Harry Redknapp, who said, "
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wasn't in my plans." In January 2013, after his release, Dyer began training with Ipswich Town to maintain fitness while looking for a new club.


Middlesbrough and retirement

Dyer had returned to Ipswich following his release from QPR and had returned to training with the
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side in January 2013. On 31 January 2013, Dyer signed a "short-term" contract with Championship club
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. Dyer's Middlesbrough debut came on 2 February away at one of his previous clubs, Ipswich Town, with Boro losing 4–0. On 2 March, Dyer scored his first goal in a 2–1 home win over league leaders Cardiff City, his first league goal since 2007. On 16 April, in a 1–0 home win over
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, Dyer lasted the 90 minutes for the first time since he joined QPR back in 2010. At the end of his contract, Dyer was not offered an extension, and he left the club. Dyer returned to Ipswich as an academy coach following his departure from Middlesbrough. He confirmed he had been back training with the first team during the close of the 2012–13 season. There was speculation in the local press at the time that he would soon rejoin for Ipswich, however he was not offered a contract and subsequently retired from playing – but remained at the club as an academy coach.


International career

After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and "B" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against
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. He was deployed out of position at
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, and was replaced by
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at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming on as a late substitute for Steve McManaman in a 0–0 draw with
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. England qualified for the
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competition but Dyer was not selected for the squad for the tournament, though he had recovered from injury and taken part in pre-tournament friendlies against
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and
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. Along with a number of other young players who failed to make the squad – including
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,
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,
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,
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and Jonathan Woodgate – Dyer took a drunken holiday to the Cypriot resort of
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. The holiday hit the headlines when a video of Dyer, Ferdinand and Lampard having sex with a number of women was leaked to ''
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''. Shortly after the story broke, it was revealed that Dyer had spent a night in hospital after being glassed in the face during a fight in an Ipswich night club. Dyer returned to the England squad for the first game after Euro 2000 for the first
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for the
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, against
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, the last football match at the
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. England lost 1–0, after which manager Kevin Keegan resigned. Despite having played only 45 minutes of football under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, Dyer was named in the squad for the 2002 World Cup. Two days after the squad was announced, Dyer suffered knee ligament damage after being tackled by
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in a league game against
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. However, he recovered just in time to remain in the squad. He made three appearances, all as a substitute, in the tournament until England were eliminated in the quarter-finals by eventual champions
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. Dyer played in several of Euro 2004 qualifiers but only had seven minutes on the pitch at
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, coming on as a late replacement for
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in England's second group match, against Switzerland. After making some appearances during England's
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qualifying Dyer's run in the England squad was ended by the recurrence of a hamstring injury while playing against Middlesbrough. After almost two years without making an appearance for England, Dyer's form for Newcastle earned him a call up to
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's England starting line-up for a friendly against
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in February 2007. His most recent, and subsequently final, appearance for England came in a 2–1 friendly defeat to Germany in August 2007, Dyer replacing Alan Smith in the second half.


Coaching career

Following his retirement from playing, Dyer took up a role as an academy coach at his first club Ipswich Town in 2014, becoming assistant manager of the under-18 youth team in August 2018. He departed the club in August 2019, outlining his intentions to move into first team management. On 26 October 2020, Ipswich confirmed that Dyer would be returning to the club to become the head coach of the club's under-23 team. Dyer also became more actively involved in first-team affairs following the appointment of new manager
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in March 2021, often assisting with coaching and being present in the dugout. Dyer unexpectedly resigned from the role on 21 March 2022.


Personal life

In November 2015, Dyer was named as a contestant on the fifteenth series of '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!''. He came fourth on the show after lasting 21 days, and donated his entire fee to the Jude Brady Foundation. In February 2018, Dyer told the public that at the age of 11 he had been sexually abused by his great uncle Kenny, by then deceased. Dyer competed in the third series of '' Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins'' in 2021. During filming, he clashed violently with instructor Jason Fox, which he attributed to the abuse he suffered as a child. Dyer was withdrawn with a
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, for which he was hospitalised in October. On 31 October, following a series of tests in hospital, Ipswich Town confirmed that he had been diagnosed with
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and would undergo a liver transplant.


Career statistics


Club


International


Honours

Individual * PFA Team of the Year: 1997–98 First Division, 1998–99 First Division,
2002–03 Premier League The 2002–03 FA Premier League (known as the FA Barclaycard Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the 11th season of the Premier League, the top division in English football. The first matches were played on 17 August 2002 and the last were ...


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