William Ralph Dean-Our Dixie

[Gnomie]

You can keep them all, This guy is the greatest striker there ever was, what was he made of? and of course he was ours. We will rightly brag about Our Dixie, his 60 goals will never be beaten. Many away fans come to see his statue, now that is respect. I know plenty of Liverpool fans who will tell you he was a one off, a true football genius.

This video gets me going, look at the homecoming after the 1933 FA cup final. I read that Dixie insisted they travelled down Scotland Road, and popped into his local to show off the cup. Wether true or not i dont know?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hMYsD5KtJAg&feature=related

He was unbelievable. I met him when he was in his wheelchair, i was bursting with pride to meet the Everton Legend. I was also at the Derby game when he died. 1st March 1980.

Bravo Dixie :handclap:

[Ged]

That laced casey must have weighed like a medicine ball when wet. 37 Everton hat tricks and broke his 100 goals then 200 goals records in the shortest time too.

The first club and International No.9 which is why it's always been so special for Everton players to adopt that number, players like Joe Royle, Bob Latchford, Graeme Sharp and Duncan Ferguson.


See here:


http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3285&highlight=DIXIE+DEAN


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[ChrisGeorge]

You can keep them all, This guy is the greatest striker there ever was, what was he made of? and of course he was ours. We will rightly brag about Our Dixie, his 60 goals will never be beaten. Many away fans come to see his statue, now that is respect. I know plenty of Liverpool fans who will tell you he was a one off, a true football genius.



Hi Tony

I am a Red as I believe you know, but as a football fan and a Liverpudlian, I honor the greatness of Dixie Dean, one of the finest sports stars the city of Liverpool has ever seen. I still have some yellowed newscuttings about his final illness and death.

Bravo Dixie, indeed!!!! :handclap:

All the best

Chris

[Mark R]

They say records are there to be broken but his 60 never will, even more so with fewer games. I honestly believe if there were 50 games a season it wouldn't be beaten. My dad took us to Chester years ago and he was in the pub there...I was in the same room as him but don't remember him (I was very young) :shock:
There are some who believe Tommy Lawton was better but I hate the way people have to compare :disgust:

[ChrisGeorge]

They say records are there to be broken but his 60 never will, even more so with fewer games. I honestly believe if there were 50 games a season it wouldn't be beaten. My dad took us to Chester years ago and he was in the pub there...I was in the same room as him but don't remember him (I was very young) :shock:
There are some who believe Tommy Lawton was better but I hate the way people have to compare :disgust:

Hi Mark

Wonderful that you were actually in the same bar as Dixie Dean. My grandfather, a Red, saw Dean play, along with the other greats of the era. His attitude toward Dixie at the end of the striker's life while the football great was tending to his bar was, right or wrong, that he was "drinking the profits" of the business. Although, on the other hand, to give Dixie his due, we have to recognize that, then and now, the transition to life after a great sports career is always going to be difficult.

All the best

Chris

[Ged]

Tommy Lawton gets a mention in one of Rising damp's episodes as Leonard Rossiter was a blue. Lawton learned his trade from Dean and he in fact broke Bobby Charlton's England goals record but as some goals were war-time, they didn't count as full Internationals.

American baseball star Babe Ruth came over to see Dean.

Dean's feat becomes even more amazing when you consider that many of his headed goals came after a fractured skull suffered during a motorbike accident. He also lost a testicle in a tackle.

He was out injured nearly all season and we got relegated, he comes back then we come back up.

[SteH]

Dean's feat becomes even more amazing when you consider that many of his headed goals came after a fractured skull suffered during a motorbike accident. .

He had a steel plate inserted into his skull after that, no wonder he scored so many goals with his head then :PDT_Piratz_26:

[Mark R]

Thanks Chris,

My grandfather (like yours) was also a Red but he loved Dixie. He was at the Arsenal game when he got his 60th. Apparently when he got the goal Dixie apparently said that "that's it - I'm going off now" (or words to that effect!)
Yes Ged - Rising Damp - Alan says "Who's Tommy Lawton?" to Rigsby's disbelief!
SteH - I think the steel plate had been well removed when he scored the 60 goals.

[Ged]

In Dean's biography, it is recorded that he got on famously with liverpool's goalie Elisha Scott and he always used to send him tablets just prior to the derby game.