Tommy Dixon (8 June 1929 – 6 February 2014) was an English
footballer
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who played as a
centre forward
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.
Club career
Dixon played for
West Ham United between 1952 and 1955. He was the club's top scorer during the
1953-54 season with 19 goals, but only featured four times the following season. He moved to
Reading
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, then of the
Third Division South
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, and was their top scorer two years running. He later played for
Brighton & Hove Albion,
Workington
Workington is a coastal town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast in the Allerdale borough of Cumbria, England. The town was historically in Cumberland. At the 2011 census it had a population of 25,207.
Loca ...
and
Barrow
Barrow may refer to:
Places
England
* Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
** Borough of Barrow-in-Furness, local authority encompassing the wider area
** Barrow and Furness (UK Parliament constituency)
* Barrow, Cheshire
* Barrow, Gloucestershire
* Barro ...
.
References
1929 births
2014 deaths
Footballers from Newcastle upon Tyne
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
West Ham United F.C. players
Reading F.C. players
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
Workington A.F.C. players
Barrow A.F.C. players
English Football League players
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