Roy Dwight

Fulham

Dwight joined Fulham in 1950 as an apprentice, signing on the same day as Bobby Robson. He played for the reserves for a number of seasons and eventually got his break in the team after injury to Bedford Jezzard. Although a winger, he was renowned for his shooting ability. Dwight scored 54 goals in 72 games for Fulham between 1954 and 1958, including a hat-trick against Liverpool in 1956 and finishing the season as Fulham's top scorer in both the 1956–57 and 1957-58 seasons. In 1957, he was in the London XI that beat Lausanne Sport 2–0 in the semi-final second leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup at Highbury.

Nottingham Forest

Dwight moved to Nottingham Forest in the summer of 1958 for a "substantial" fee, reported as £10,000. In 1958–59, his only full season at Nottingham Forest, Dwight scored 26 goals in 41 League and nine FA Cup appearances, including two hat-tricks. He opened the scoring after ten minutes for Forest in the 1959 FA Cup Final against Luton Town. 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. 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

Dwight moved back to…

During the 1970s and 1980s Dwight worked as a football coach 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.

When he was eight, Dwight's mother died in childbirth while giving birth to his sister Susan, and following his father's death, he moved in with his grandparents. He married Constance Carver in Dartford in 1954, and was the cousin of singer Elton John (birth name Reg Dwight); Roy's father Edwin and Elton's father Stanley were brothers. Elton played at Roy and Connie's wedding as a young child as one of his first public performances after the band booked to play the wedding reception turned up late. Dwight died in London in 2002 at the age of 69.

Nottingham Forest

FA Cup: 1958–59