Career
He made 500 League appearances for Reading. Hicks holds the record for the highest number of first team appearances by a Reading player, making a total of 603 first team appearances. In a 2005 fans" vote to compile Reading"s best-ever eleven, Hicks was voted on the team as one of the centre backs.
Between March and August 1979, Hicks was one of the Reading back five that kept a clean sheet for 1,103 minutes - a record that stood until broken by Manchester United.