Roy Dwight

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Roy Dwight
Personal information
Full name Royston Edward Dwight[1]
Date of birth (1933-01-09)9 January 1933
Place of birth Belvedere, London, England
Date of death 9 April 2002(2002-04-09) (aged 69)
Place of death Woolwich, London, England
Position(s) Outside forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1954–1958 Fulham 72 (54)
1958–1960 Nottingham Forest 44 (21)
1960–1961
Gravesend & Northfleet
1961–1963 Coventry City 31 (8)
1963–1965 Millwall 7 (2)
Total 154 (85)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Royston Edward Dwight (9 January 1933 – 9 April 2002) was an English

Nottingham Forest.[2]

Career

Fulham

Roy Joined Fulham in 1950 as an apprentice, signing on the same day as

Highbury
.

Nottingham Forest

He moved on to

Luton Town.[2] After 33 minutes, with Forest winning 2–0, Dwight was carried off the Wembley pitch after breaking his leg in a tackle with Luton's Brendan McNally. Ten-man Forest held on, winning the match 2–1 to become the only team reduced in numbers by injury to win the trophy.[2]

Despite scoring in his comeback game the following March, he was not the player he had been before his injury. He played only twice more for Forest before dropping out of League football.

Later career

He moved back to play in his native

Gravesend and Northfleet but returned to league football with spells at Coventry City, where he was recruited by former Fulham teammate Jimmy Hill, and lastly Millwall.[2]

He was also part of a delegation which included Jimmy Greaves and commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme that visited US in 1966 following England’s World Cup success. The party had been charged with recruiting British teams to play in the US the following summer for the inaugural United Soccer Association. As part of this he moved to the States in 1966 for two years to coach the Detroit Cougars working alongside his former Millwall teammate Len Julians.[4][5][6]

He later managed Tooting and Mitcham from 1971-1976,[7] who had been Forest's 3rd round opponents in their winning FA Cup run in 1959, and also managed Dartford.[2]

Career outside football

Later in life during the 1970s he taught Physical Education at Forest Hill Boys Secondary School. He took up a position of Assistant Racing Manager in the greyhound racing industry at Catford Stadium and later Crayford & Bexleyheath Stadium.[2][8]

Personal life

When he was eight, Roy's mother died in childbirth while giving birth to his sister Susan, and following his father's death, he moved in with his grandparents.[9]

He married Constance Carver in Dartford in 1954,[10] and was the cousin of singer Sir Elton John (real name Reg Dwight);[2] Roy's father Edwin and Sir Elton's father Stanley were brothers.

Roy Dwight died in London in 2002 at the age of 69.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ "Roy Dwight". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Roy's bitter-sweet moment". News Shopper. 23 April 2002. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  3. ^ "FFC Facts And Figures".
  4. ^ "When the NASL rocked America: Elton John, Jagger and the age of excitement".
  5. ^ "United Soccer Association: When It Was Founded In 1967".
  6. ^ "The special relationship".
  7. ^ "Tooting & Mitcham Football Club - PAST MANAGERS".
  8. ISBN 07207-1106-1
    .
  9. ISBN 0-283-06354-8
    .
  10. ^ England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005
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