 He scored 59 goals in one season, which attracted the attention of the chief scout of Tottenham Hotspur.He was invited to join the club as an unpaid junior, but found him a job as a metal worker in Chingford.In 1937, Tottenham decided to release him, although before he left for home, he played in a junior match and scored twice, which changed the mind of the club's manager Jack Tresadern, and he was then invited to join the Tottenham nursery club at Northfleet where he played with Bill Nicholson while working as a groundstaff boy at Tottenham.