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Will Dickson

Will Dickson

Clubs played for: Notts County, Chelsea, Arsenal, Mansfield Town (1946-1956).

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Biography: His stay at Highbury was marred by a number of injuries. He returned to live and work as scout for Arsenal in Northern Ireland. Now works in the joinery trade. (Won 12 caps for Northern Ireland between 1951 and 1955)




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Dickson, Will My uncle bill had many fond memories of playing in england as we used to listen to the stories.but one the most interesting was while playing for Arsenal against his beloved chelsea in the FA cup with Arsenal poised to win the match chelsea got a last minute corner he observed the chelsea center half Johnny harris lift a handfull of sand when the corner came in jack kelsey came for the ball only for harris to through the sand in his eys and head the ball into the net .chelsea went on to win the reply.He went on to play in four semi finals with both chelsea and arsenal only to be beaten in all four.i asked him how he felt after them to which he replied six brandies later son and the pain was gone.


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