The following season, his FA Cup semi-final replay goal against Birmingham City helped put Blackpool into the Final against Newcastle United.

[1] Perry's most notable achievement was scoring the injury-time winner in the 1953 FA Cup Final against Bolton Wanderers, cementing a comeback from 1–3 to 4–3 thanks to an earlier Stan Mortensen hat-trick.

During the 1955–56 season, Perry scored twenty goals (a record for a winger)[1] (including a hat-trick in the first of two West Lancashire derbies in the space of twenty-four hours) to help Blackpool to their highest-ever league position of runners-up in the First Division.

Perry was inducted into the Hall of Fame at Bloomfield Road, when it was officially opened by former Blackpool player Jimmy Armfield in April 2006.

In January 2007, he was reunited with the FA Cup after 54 years when the trophy was taken to Bloomfield Road as part of the build-up to the Seasiders' fourth-round tie with Norwich City.