The Anonymous Widower

Every Great Football Team Has A Terry Dyson

The Tottenham Hotspur 1960-61 Double-winning footballer ; Terry Dyson has died and the club has published his obituary.

This is their sub-heading.

The Club is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Terry Dyson, a key member of Bill Nicholson’s all-conquering team of the early 1960s. He was 91.

These two introductory paragraphs add some more detail.

Famously small in stature at 5 ft 3 ins, Terry was the man for the big occasion.

He scored in the FA Cup Final as we clinched the ‘double’ of league championship and FA Cup in 1961 and produced arguably his best display in the 1963 European Cup Winners’ Cup Final, when he scored twice as we beat Atletico Madrid 5-1 to become the first British side to claim a European trophy.

My father who used to take me to Spurs in those far-off days, was a great fan of Dyson. But my father was about the same size and had played non-league football before the Second World War.

Dyson was unique because of his height, his ability to score goals, when they were needed and because of his willingness to do all the fetching, carrying and helping the defence on the left of the team.

The other similar player, who found fame a few years later was England’s World Cup winner in 1966 ; Alan Ball

August 21, 2026 - Posted by AnonW | Sport | Alan Ball, Football, My Father, Terry Dyson, Tottenham Hotspur