by Staff writer
The meme below telling a story of one Arsenal player named David Dicks has been circulating round the web since the early 2000s:
However funny the meme is though, it probably isn’t TRUE.
First, no info about a David Dicks known to have played for Arsenal exists anywhere.
The only David Dicks we could find out about is 39-year-old Australian sailor who became the youngest person to sail non-stop and solo around the world.
Another David Dick who was an Australian rules footballer never played for Arsenal before his death in 1982 (the funny event in the meme is said to have occurred in the 90s).
Also, in some other memes with just the same story, “David Dicks” is replaced by “Newton Dicks”, who again could not be confirmed as an Arsenal football player.
So the meme story, like many of its kind, is certainly false news.
Update: Further investigation has revealed there was actually an Arsenal player named John Dick who joined the club in 1898.
John Dick’s profile on Arsenal.com reads: “Although goal scoring was not his forte, John [Dick] grabbed a brace in the Gunners’ 12-0 victory over Loughborough on March 12, 1900, which remains Arsenal’s biggest home league win. During the 1904/05 season, John became one of the first Arsenal players to reach 200 games for the Club, and also enjoyed a stint as captain. In total he played 284 games, scoring 13 goals, in his 14-year spell before moving to Prague to begin his coaching career.”
We yet cannot confirm if John Dick was the Arsenal player that inspired the memes or his name was just a mix up with David Dicks.
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This is a haha story. The meme was so funny. And the name us even Dicks and not Dick.
It’s false. That’s a photo of Liam Brady.
Why not use the name Julian Dicks. He did exist.
Indeed he does exist. He was one of West Ham’s and England’s hardest defenders and is still pretty handy today! This might explain why the author thought better than to use his name ?
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arsenal.com/historic/players/john-dick
You started by saying it's "probably isn't true" thrn ended with "certainly not true"…did you convince yourself of the facts while writing????
Thanks for setting the record straight.
John Dicks played 266 games scored 12 for woodWhich Arsenal
… unless the joke meant 'in the 1890s'…
Very wrong info.
John Dick was born in the year 1877, January 29. From Scotland. He played 266 times for Woolwich Arsenal and scored 12 times. Later left Arsenal in the summer of 1912 to coach in football in Czech (in prague which was the capital of Bohemia before Czech). He later returned to England and died of cancer, aged 55.
Well…
“However funny the meme is though, it probably isn’t TRUE.”
False may be your weak investigation skills (or no skills at all serms to be the most accurate).
https://www.arsenal.com/historic/players/john-dick
David dicks https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dick_(soccer)&ved=2ahUKEwi0uamynMrxAhUJlWoFHUFvAFAQmhN6BAgDEAI&usg=AOvVaw1zgJMSYI4QwSetUdIn73Z0&cshid=1625429553828