Norman Dean was a professional footballer, who started his professional career at Southampton

Southampton F.C.

Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...

, before spells at Cardiff City

Cardiff City F.C.

Cardiff City Football Club are a Welsh professional football club based in Cardiff, Wales. The club competes in the English football pyramid and is currently playing in the Football League Championship. Cardiff City is the best supported football club in Wales, averaging approximately 22,500 for...

 and Barnsley

Barnsley F.C.

Barnsley Football Club are a professional English football club based in the town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Nicknamed the Tykes, they were founded in 1887 under the name Barnsley St. Peter's...

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Southampton

Norman Dean first joined Southampton in September 1961 as an amateur with the club's nursery side, CPC Sports, while undertaking a welding apprenticeship. He spent a long time in the club's reserve team, scoring 66 goals in 105 appearances for the reserves. He made his first appearance in the first team in a League Cup tie at Tranmere Rovers on 13 September 1963, but had to wait until September 1965 for his first league appearance.

He was a valuable member of the team, alongside Terry Paine

Terry Paine

Terence Lionel Paine MBE is a former English footballer.Paine made 713 football league appearances for Southampton F.C. and 111 for Hereford United F.C...

, John Sydenham

John Sydenham

John Sydenham, born in Southampton 15 September 1939 is a former footballer, who played most of his career for Southampton F.C.-Early career:...

 and Martin Chivers

Martin Chivers

Martin Harcourt Chivers is a retired English professional footballer from the 1960s and 1970s.-Southampton:...

 that gained Southampton promotion from League Division 2 in 1965-66

1965-66 in English football

The 1965–66 season was the 86th season of competitive football in England.-Diary of the season:7 October 1965: An experiment to broadcast a live game to another ground takes place...

, scoring 11 goals in 18 appearances, including a hat-trick against local rivals, Portsmouth

Portsmouth F.C.

Portsmouth Football Club is an English football club based in the city of Portsmouth. The club is nicknamed Pompey. Portsmouth's home matches have been played at Fratton Park since the club's formation in 1898. The team currently play in the Football League Championship after being relegated from...

 on 5 February 1966. After Saints reached Division 1, he was replaced by Ron Davies

Ron Davies (footballer)

Ronald Tudor "Ron" Davies was a Welsh footballer who played as a centre forward. He spent most of his career with Southampton in the Football League First Division, and also for the Welsh national team....

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Cardiff City

In March 1967, he was signed by Jimmy Scoular

Jimmy Scoular

James "Jimmy" Scoular was a Scottish football player and manager. Known as a tough, combative player with precise passing skills, Scoular made over 600 appearances in The Football League with Portsmouth, Newcastle United and Bradford Park Avenue, as a player-manager, and attained nine caps for...

 for Cardiff City

Cardiff City F.C.

Cardiff City Football Club are a Welsh professional football club based in Cardiff, Wales. The club competes in the English football pyramid and is currently playing in the Football League Championship. Cardiff City is the best supported football club in Wales, averaging approximately 22,500 for...

 for £6000. In the rest of the 1966-67 season he was virtually an ever-present, making 10 league appearances, scoring 2 goals. He also helped Cardiff to the Welsh FA Cup

Welsh Cup

The Welsh Cup is a knock-out football competition contested annually by teams from Wales.The Football Association of Wales is the organising body of this competition, which has been run every year since its inception in 1877-78...

 in 1967 and again the following season.

In the 1967-68 Cup Winners' Cup

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1967-68

The season 1967-68 of the European Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by A.C. Milan final victory against Hamburger SV, the fourth West German finalist in four years.-First round:-First leg:---------------------Second leg:...

, in a team that included John Toshack

John Toshack

John Benjamin Toshack OBE is a Welsh former footballer and manager. He is currently the manager of Macedonia. He has also managed several others clubs including Swansea City, who he took from the Fourth Division to the First in four seasons.As a player, he is remembered for being part of the...

 in attack and Bob Wilson

Bob Wilson (footballer born 1943)

Robert John "Bob" Wilson is an English former professional footballer.-Career:Wilson began his career with Aston Villa as a youth player. He went on to make nine league appearances for the club before he was sold to Cardiff City in August 1964 as manager Jimmy Scoular's first signing for a fee of...

 in goal, Dean scored 3 goals including the winner in the quarter-final play-off against Moscow Torpedo

FC Torpedo Moscow

FC Torpedo Moscow is an association football club, based in Moscow, Russia. The club was founded in 1930. On March 19, 2009 it was denied membership of the Professional Football League and did not play in the professional competitions in 2009...

 and 2 goals in the semi-final against Hamburg

Hamburger SV

Hamburger Sport-Verein, usually referred to as HSV in Germany and Hamburg in international parlance, is a German multi-sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch being its football department...

, which Cardiff lost 4-3 on aggregate.

Barnsley

In September 1968, he moved on to Barnsley

Barnsley F.C.

Barnsley Football Club are a professional English football club based in the town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Nicknamed the Tykes, they were founded in 1887 under the name Barnsley St. Peter's...

 where he stayed for 4 years, before a broken leg hastened his retirement.

After football

After retiring from playing, he returned to Corby where he worked for British Steel

British Steel

British Steel was a major British steel producer. It originated as a nationalised industry, the British Steel Corporation , formed in 1967. This was converted to a public limited company, British Steel PLC, and privatised in 1988. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index...

. He later worked for the Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

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He is currently back in Hampshire

Hampshire

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...

, working for Southampton F.C. as a security official at the club's Staplewood training ground.