Born: Chatham 26/5/1951
Debut: Millwall Away 27/12/76 1-1 Draw. Final match: Gillingham Home 2/5/81
Dick Tydeman joined from Gillingham for a club record fee of £65,000 two days after Derek Hales was sold to Derby County for £333,333 plus VAT (Also a record fee) by his old boss from his days at Priestfield, Andy Nelson. Within a month Tydeman caused some controversy by being selected to play in the FA Cup third round match against Blackburn Rovers and the replay. Tydeman was ineligible as he had already played for Gillingham in that seasons competition. Charlton lost the replay so no further action was taken.
A six foot plus midfielder went on to make 178 League and Cup appearances, scoring 7 goals over the next five seasons. He was part of the successful 1980/1981 promotion winning team from the Third Division with his only goal of that season shown on LWT's Big Match programme with a strike against Hull City in January 1981.
Tydeman was sold along with Colin Powell back to Gillingham for £42,000 and were Keith Peacock's first signings as manager of the Gills. In his latter days of his career he played for Peterborough, Chatham, Dagenham, Dover, Bromley and Canterbury.
As of July 2012 Dick was a taxi driver.
Any lifers with thoughts or stories on Dick during his time at the Valley?
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In fact, we could do with him now as I'm sure, even at 63, he could still find Igor ;-)
I agree with Colin Cameron's assessment had we signed him earlier in his career he would have blossomed into an outstanding player .My memory is he was creative and had a wide range of passing.
I remember when he signed for us Gillingham gave us some picture badges of him for sale in the club shop and I purchased one of them . I particularly loved a goal he scored against Chelsea to take the lead at the Bridge .He meant to cross it but somehow his miskick baffled Petar Borata. I think it was on the Big Match . Unfortunately they came back to beat us 3-1;
Probably his greatest achievement for us was as Mike Bailey's inspirational captain in the 1980/81 promotion team . I was disappointed when he went and Tydeman did say Mullery tried to keep him ,but I suspect the pull of his local team Gillingham especially when Keith Peacock took over was too much.
We equalised in that game and then Peacock missed a penalty to win it.
Also remember that one at Chelsea.
he had a good understanding with keith Peacock (the general) for a few seasons ..when he played well the team played well !
Went 3-2 down and then won 4-3 with Paddy getting the winner.
For the life of me, cannot remember who got the third.
If you have ever played on a really cold surface, before you get warmed up the last thing you need is to kick a ball------DT unfortunately went into a tackle(very rare) like his feet were cold and painful. Could pass the ball well though.
Jeff Wood saved the second one, the ref ruled that one out because he said he moved too early.
Then Ward stepped up and scored or something like that.
i was standing next to the bloke who played duffy from the fenn st gang on the east terrace ..great atmosphere that night
Brighton were top or second and we were probably about 7th, with hopes of promotion. Killer & Flash were at their best (as well as Powell & Peacock). 19,000 crowd, when I'd been brought up on 5000 crowds.
Yes other games beat it, because of their importance, obviously the play off wins against Sunderland, Leeds and Chelsea, but they weren't at The Valley.