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easthammer
2:11 Thu Mar 19
Re: John Dick
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My best memory of John Dick goes back to Sept 1958 when I was a 10 year old. ( three weeks short of my 11th Birthday).
We had just been promoted to Division One and had made a good start to the season and it was our third home game against Man Utd.
The Boleyn was rammed 36,000 in the old place then was a tight fit. Me and my mates got the ground and found getting in my normal stop in the South Bank was looking unlikely so many Mancs in there already (not segregated back then). So went in the North Bank and found our way to the front just behind the goal.
The atmosphere was brilliant Man U were there for the taking as they were still rebuilding from Munich earlier that year. It was tight game which we won 3 - 2 and Dick scored with a rasping left foot (his forte). Think it might have been the first but not sure now, but in any case that was not my enduring memory from that game. I had seen him do that often enough in the previous season. What I had not seen him do before however, was layout the opposition's centre half with a single punch on the point of the chin. What was more exceptional was the recipient of the amazing right hook, delivered from a kneeling position after a coming together near the half way line, was the Man U's captain Bill Foulkes who was a man mountain and no shrinking violet. (check him out if you don't know). Even better neither the Ref or linos saw this happen and as the ball had gone rapidly towards the West Ham goal after Foulkes' tackle on Dick. Obviously it was one from behind this was 1958. The game was eventually stopped for an "injury" near the half way line. Which for all not watching was mere collision. I had always considered John Dick a tough bastard just how tough I hadn't realised till then.
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geoffpikey
9:39 Wed Mar 18
Re: John Dick
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When's he signing?
Up top with Silva?
Or "in the hole"?
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SDKFZ 222
9:32 Wed Mar 18
Re: John Dick
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I worked as a Saturday Boy with his twin daughters in Woolworths, during 74-75.
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Far Cough
9:19 Wed Mar 18
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Inside left, outside right, proper old school
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kips
9:11 Wed Mar 18
Re: John Dick
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Tremendous free scoring inside forward.
The partnership with Vic Keeble got us the goals to secure the second division title.
The strike force for the first couple of years in the first Division
Phil Woosnam - Inside right
Vic Keeble - Centre Forward
John Dick - inside left
Formidable
I saw him play a few times from 1959 until he moved on.
I think even after he left West Ham he continued to live in the area.
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ted fenton
3:31 Wed Mar 18
Re: John Dick
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Was inside left when my Dad first took me 1958 he and Keeble were an early Cottee and McAvennie also remember John Bond playing up front for a while and scoring a few goals !
Happy days.
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martinbritt_63
2:08 Wed Mar 18
Re: John Dick
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March 3rd 1956
Spurs v West Ham- fa cup 6th round
I was just shy of my 8th birthday - went in my dad's mates Morris.
WHL rammed with about 70,000 - I remember being passed down to the front over the heads of the crowd.
We went 3-1 up through a John Dick hat trick, but typical Irons they came back for a 3-3 draw. Even more typically we lost the replay 1-2 at UP.
He was a terrific striker and his partnership with Vic Keeble was lovely to watch when he arrived from Newcastle a year or two later.
Here's a link to the 3-3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-2unH0TA5E
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