Background
When he was eight, Roy"s mother died in childbirth, while giving birth to his sister Susan, and following his father"s death, he moved in with his grandparents.
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Roy Dwight
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Although a winger, he was renowned for his shooting ability. In 1957 he was in the London XI that beat Lausanne Sports 2-0 in the semi-final second leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup at Highbury. He moved on to Nottingham Forest in the summer of 1958 for a "substantial" fee.
Despite scoring in his comeback game the following March he was not the player he had been before his injury, and he played only twice more for Forest before moving back to play in his native Kent with Gravesend and Northfleet.
He returned to league football with spells at Coventry City and Millwall. Later in life during the 1970s he taught Physical Education at Forest Hill Boys Secondary School and took up a position of Assistant Racing Manager in the greyhound racing industry at Crayford Stadium.
Roy Dwight died in London in 2002 at the age of 69.
Achievements
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He opened the scoring after 10 minutes for Forest in the 1959 FA Cup Final against Luton Town. Ten-man Forest held on, winning the match 2-1 to become the only team reduced to 10 men by injury to win the trophy. He later managed Tooting and Mitcham, who had been Forest"s 3rd round opponents in their winning FA Cup run.
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United Kingdom