Kerry Dixon

Early years

Dixon was born in Luton. A tall and athletic striker who had pace, an impressive heading ability and was effective with both feet, he started out as an apprentice with Tottenham Hotspur but was released by the club.

Reading

After spells with Chesham United and Dunstable, he got his first taste of League football with Reading, who signed him for £20,000 in 1980. He scored 51 league goals in 116 appearances for the then Third Division club, including four in a 7–5 defeat at Doncaster Rovers in September 1982. They finished the season relegated to the Fourth Division.

Chelsea

Following Reading's relegation, Dixon moved up to the Second Division to sign for Chelsea in August 1983. He was signed by manager John Neal. Chelsea chairman Ken Bates initially hesitated when faced with the £150,000 transfer fee plus an additional £25,000 if Dixon ever played for the England national side, but relented and the deal went ahead. Dixon arrived as part of Neal's radical re-building of the side, who had narrowly avoided relegation to the Third Division three months earlier, and was joined in the same summer by Pat Nevin, Nigel Spackman, Joe McLaughlin and Eddie Niedzwiecki, as Chelsea looked to push for promotion to the First Division, having been in the Second Division since 1979. Dixon's impact at Chelsea was immediate; he scored two goals on his debut against Derby County and added 32 more through the season as the club romped to promotion as Second…

His scoring feats earned him an England call-up; he made his debut against Mexico in 1985 during a friendly international tournament in Mexico City. Three days later Dixon scored twice and set up Bryan Robson for the other in England's 3–0 win over West Germany. He scored two more four days later against the USA in Los Angeles.

1986 World Cup

After his injury in 1985, he was nevertheless selected for the England squad for the 1986 FIFA World Cup but the presence of Lineker and Peter Beardsley in the side limited him to a six-minute substitute appearance against Poland. He played only one more game for England after that, and finished his international career with eight caps and four goals.

Doncaster Rovers

After his playing days were over, he became Doncaster's player-manager, but was sacked in August 1997.

Boreham Wood, Letchworth and Hitchin Town

Since then, Dixon has had stints coaching non-League sides Boreham Wood, Letchworth, and Hitchin Town.

Dixon does occasional work for Chelsea TV. He commentated on Chelsea matches with Gary Taphouse from 2002 to 2008 on both the club's own digital radio station, then on Smooth FM. He is also involved with matchday hospitality at the club. He was also joint manager at Dunstable alongside Paul Reeves and involved in community work in the area. In June 2014, he was charged with a class-A drugs offence. The charge was subsequently dropped. In June 2015, Dixon was found guilty of assault of a man in a pub in Dunstable. On 19 June 2015, he was jailed for nine months for the offence. In October 2016, in an interview with the BBC, he spoke of his long term addiction to gambling and how he was working as a heating engineer's assistant. His father Mike was also a footballer.