Alex Dyer (footballer, born 1965)

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For the American army general, see Alexander Brydie Dyer. For the footballer born in 1990, see Alex Dyer (footballer born 1990).

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Alex Dyer
Personal information
Full name Alexander Constantine Dyer
Date of birth (1965-11-14) 14 November 1965 (age 58)
Place of birth Forest Gate, England
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1982–1983 Watford
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983–1987 Blackpool 108 (19)
1987–1988 Hull City 60 (14)
1988–1990 Crystal Palace 17 (2)
1990–1993 Charlton Athletic 78 (13)
1993–1995 Oxford United 76 (6)
1995 Lincoln City 1 (0)
1995–1996 Barnet 35 (2)
1996–1997 F.C. Maia 0 (0)
1997–1998 Huddersfield Town 12 (1)
1998–2000 Notts County 80 (6)
2000–2001 Kingstonian 0 (0)
2001 Hayes 1 (0)
Total 469 (63 )
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:10, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Alexander Constantine "Alex" Dyer (born 14 November 1965, in Forest Gate, Greater London)[1] is an English former footballer who played mainly as a defender (but who could also play in midfield) for eleven clubs in a seventeen-year professional career. His achievements as a player including helping Blackpool win promotion to the Third Division in 1985 and Crystal Palace to the First Division in 1989.

Playing career

Dyer began his youth career at Watford, but did not make a senior appearance for the club, signing instead for Blackpool for whom he made 108 appearances between 1983 and 1987. He moved on to Hull City in 1987 making 60 appearances, scoring 14 times, over the next two seasons. On 9 November 1988[1] Dyer signed for Crystal Palace and made his debut on 12 November, as a substitute for Neil Redfearn in an away 0–2 defeat to Bournemouth.[2] Redfearn moved on to Watford on 18 November[3] and Dyer took his number seven shirt for the next six games before losing his place to Eddie McGoldrick,[2] who signed from Northampton Town on 9 January 1989.[4] Those seven appearances (one goal) made up Dyer's total for the 1988–89 season in which Palace achieved promotion to the top tier.[2] Dyer remained at Palace for the 1989–90 season making 10 further appearances and scoring one other goal, before moving on to Charlton Athletic. He subsequently played for, Oxford United, Lincoln City, Barnet, F.C. Maia (Portugal), Huddersfield Town and Notts County before moving into non-league football firstly with Kingstonian and then Hayes.

Coaching career

Having been employed for eight months as a PE Teacher in a South London school,[5] in April 2004 he joined West Ham United as assistant to sports scientist Tony Strudwick.[6] His role at the club changed to conditioning coach in July 2007.[7] and following Kevin Keen's promotion to first team coach, reserve team coach in September 2008.[8][9]

In January 2011 he left the Hammers to link up with Chris Powell as assistant manager at Charlton Athletic.[10] On 27 May 2014 Dyer was sacked from Charlton after the appointment of Bob Peeters as manager.[11]

Following the appointment of Chris Powell as the new manager of Huddersfield Town, Dyer, a former Terrier himself, joined the Yorkshire side as Assistant Manager on 3 September 2014.[12]

References

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