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Any news on Terry Dixon?

cquiggers

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Dec 6, 2006
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Just wondering if anybody ITK had news on Dixon?

I know he came back from a massive injury and then broke down again. Since then not herd a peep from THFC so am assuming the worst??
 

Rocket

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Someone like the Ireland Under 21 coach said he was going to be out for a long time again, don't think the club have said anything about his situation though
 

truespur

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very sad to see the lad struggling with an injury at his age, he has so much potential and it would be a shame if he does not make it
 

liamc23

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Looks like we've let the kid go. Theres been a thread in COYS about it with quotes in an irish paper.

Quotes from the Herald:

"People knew that I'd had injury problems for the last while. People within football knew that I had left Tottenham so word got around that I had finished, I had retired, but that's not the case.

There are no guarantees and I have a bit of a way to go, but I do hope that I will be able to play football again. At what level, and with any success, I don't know, no one knows that now.

I had a real high in my career, in my life, when I was in the Ireland squad and on the bench for a game at Lansdowne Road. If that was the high, this is the real low at the moment, leaving Tottenham.

But I do have a real hope that I will be able to play football, at least earn a living from football and see where it takes me after that.

I went to see a specialist a while back and he gave me a bit of hope, he said it's possible that I can play again and be a professional. At this stage it's only a possible and there are no guarantees, but I am strong in my own mind and I am determined to get back playing again.

I am finished with Spurs now, but I have had clubs in touch with me. A couple of teams have said they want me to come there so I can do my rehab and get back training. If I get my fitness up and can show them that I'm able to play without any problems, then I will have a chance of signing.

I will see how I am feeling in the next few weeks but I hope to be able to go to a club soon enough and start doing some more work. At the moment I can do some jogging and some work with leg weights, I have done a bit of passing and some ball work so that was good for me, to work wth a ball again. There's a long road ahead of me and if I do get back, it will be next season.

Spurs paid up my contract. They said that they couldn't take any more chances on me and my fitness, they said that they didn't see it happening for me there. It was hard to leave, I had been there for ten years and to be honest I'd hoped they would treat me better.

There are clubs interested in me and that's a boost for me. I have a good family and friends around me but it's good to know that people in football are also interested and want to sign me.

I will try and get fit and give it a go with some club. This could be my last chance, so I have no reason not to try. I haven't achieved anything in football really, I haven't played a club game and I haven't played for Ireland, I want to do both of them so hopefully the knee can clear up, I can get fit and achieve my goals.

If I can't play again and if I have to quit, at least I know that I tried, and I will do something else. I have been doing coaching courses and I want to stay in the game so I'll see what the future holds for me."

A real big shame if true because it looked like he had real promise, im kinda disappointed that we've let him go i thought we could of at least helped get fit again before we pay up his contract.
 

diegooners

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Extremely sad that. I will admit to having never seen him play but by all accounts he was a star in the making....a far better prospect than Pekhart. To have your career smighted at such a young age is so harsh. Good luck to him with whatever he does next.
 

yanno

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Dixon's original injury was a dislocated knee - which is horrendous. We had an SC member who'd been unfortunate enough to experience the injury, and I winced at the poor gentleman's description.

Then, Dixon recovered sufficiently to play for the Academy, and a couple of fans watching described what seemed like a reoccurence of the injury (although the club haven't commented). A reoccurence seems entirely feasible. I'm no medical expert, but at the lay level it seems that, just as with a dislocated shoulder, once the joint has slipped there is a chance of it happening again.

If the report is correct, it sounds like we did pay up Dixon's contract. But it's very sad for a hugely talented young player to suffer such a catastrophic injury.
 

stemark44

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Thats really sad to hear that this youngster is probably finished,by all accounts he was a super player and one that we had very high hopes for.
 

t79boy

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why bother paying up his contract surely just keeping him here till the end of it would have been more sensible especially since he has been here for 10 years !! Would be gutted if it were me !
 

bugsdad

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Paying up his contract allows him to go to another club and if he gets to some sort of fitness level there sign on for them.
I feel more sorry for this kid then the for Eduardo as he will still earn £20k minimum per week . This kid will be lucky to earn that a year as he has no other training.
 

BrotherJustin

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I posted on another thread a while ago (not that I can remember where) that Dixon had gone. It was written into his contract that another recurrence of the same injury would mean his contract would be terminated. Apparently Jol and Hughton kept giving him another chance to come back from injury, but when Ramos came in he didn't know the kid so he followed the contract and let him go. He got a very nice pay off though!

EDIT: Found where I posted before

http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=26951
 

paulspursman

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good luck to the lad

no reason why even if he isnt going to be the player he could have been due to these injuries, he cant play in the championship or at least league football of some kind
 

Bruts

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Dixon's original injury was a dislocated knee - which is horrendous. We had an SC member who'd been unfortunate enough to experience the injury, and I winced at the poor gentleman's description.

Then, Dixon recovered sufficiently to play for the Academy, and a couple of fans watching described what seemed like a reoccurence of the injury (although the club haven't commented). A reoccurence seems entirely feasible. I'm no medical expert, but at the lay level it seems that, just as with a dislocated shoulder, once the joint has slipped there is a chance of it happening again.

If the report is correct, it sounds like we did pay up Dixon's contract. But it's very sad for a hugely talented young player to suffer such a catastrophic injury.

I dislocated my knee 9 years ago playing footy when i was 18,,,,,, never played competitive football again.
 

yanno

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I dislocated my knee 9 years ago playing footy when i was 18,,,,,, never played competitive football again.

Bruts - what horrible luck. I feel for you. I've had knee surgery, but mention of a dislocation makes me feel queasy.

Obviously, surgical techniques are always improving. However, given your experiences, would you suspect that for young Terry Dixon it's a difficult injury to recover from fully and return to a contact sport like football?
 

clarryboy

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At least he made it onto the Fifa 07 Tottenham Squad.

Once scored a goal for me from the halfway line at the kickoff. Legend.
 

sarfy

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my mate in the academy reckons thats his lot and he will only get as far as non league now, shame because he always raved about how good he was
 

Kendall

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I dislocated my knee 9 years ago playing footy when i was 18,,,,,, never played competitive football again.

ouch

I'm surprised I've never had a dislocation, my knees hyperextend, track laterally and have loose tendons around the kneecap, so it moves very very easily & freely.

Putting in the hours at the gym to try and correct it, but it's very very hard work.
 

Bruts

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Bruts - what horrible luck. I feel for you. I've had knee surgery, but mention of a dislocation makes me feel queasy.

Obviously, surgical techniques are always improving. However, given your experiences, would you suspect that for young Terry Dixon it's a difficult injury to recover from fully and return to a contact sport like football?

Difficult to say Yanno but i know from my experience it has come out of socket 3 times since, (once when i was on the dancefloor at my local club :oops:).

With me its more the mental side, if i have a 50/50 challenge when i play 5 aside footy im worried its going to go again. I would imagine that Dixons knee is also now more likely to pop out of socket again. but then again I had my physio done on the NHS, so his may not be as bad !!
 
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