Roger Hoy

Roger Hoy

Roger joined his boyhood favourites Tottenham from school, signing professional forms in 1964 and making his League bow two years later.

In an out of the side at White Hart Lane, Roger was guaranteed first team football at Crystal Palace and stepped down a division just in time to see his new team win promotion to the top flight for the first time in their history.

A bid from newly promoted Luton in 1970 was accepted and Roger enjoyed 12 months at Kenilworth Road before falling out with the Hatter’s management and moving on to Cardiff where his League career was effectively ended by a bad knee injury.

Roger then emigrated to Australia where he played and coached for a while before working for a transport group.

For many years though, this mid-field enforcer who took no prisoners on the playing field was a full time church minister! Roger sadly passed away in 2018.