Tommy Dixon (footballer, Born 1929)
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Tommy Dixon (8 June 1929 – 6 February 2014) was an English
footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...
who played as a
centre forward In the sport of association football, a forward (attacker or striker) is an outfield position which primarily plays further up the pitch than midfielders and defenders. As with any attacking player, the role of the forward relies heavily on be ...
.


Club career

Dixon played for
West Ham United West Ham United Football Club is a professional Association football, football club based in Stratford, London, Stratford, East London, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English f ...
between 1952 and 1955. He was the club's top scorer during the 1953-54 season with a record of 19 goals, but only featured four times the following season. He moved to
Reading Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of Visual perception, sight or Somatosensory system, touch. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifacete ...
, then transferred to the
Third Division South The Third Division South of the Football League was a tier in the English football league system from 1921 to 1958. It ran in parallel with the Third Division North with clubs elected to the League or relegated from Division Two allocated to on ...
, and was their top scorer two years running. He later played for
Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club, commonly referred to as Brighton, is a professional football club based in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Their home gr ...
,
Workington Workington is a coastal town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The town is at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast, south-west of Carlisle and north-east of Whitehaven. At the 2021 census the ...
and Barrow.


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 20th-century English sportsmen {{England-footy-forward-1920s-stub