Dixie Dean

[john]

Born 100 years ago yesterday

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Dean

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[scouserdave]

How soon we forget
On the front page of the Echo last night. Surprised there's been so little response on this forum. I might be a Superior Rednose, but Dixie is up there with Shanks. Man is a legend

[john]

How soon we forget
On the front page of the Echo last night. Surprised there's been so little response on this forum. I might be a Superior Rednose, but Dixie is up there with Shanks. Man is a legend

Bill Shankly, then manager of local rivals Liverpool, said (on the BBC) "those of us privileged to see Dean play, talk of him the way people talk about Beethoven, Shakespeare or Mozart, he was that good"

After a long retirement, Dixie died in 1980, appropriately watching the Blues play their historic rivals from the other side of Stanley Park (Liverpool won 2-1.) At his funeral, huge crowds lined the streets of Liverpool in silent tribute. Bill Shankly, the Liverpool manager and football’s king of the one-liners, remarked that Dixie, dead, could draw a bigger crowd than today’s Everton, live.

[jimbo]

does his name have anything to do with the Dixie we used to use as a warning when we were "raidin bonnies" or getting up to mischief in Scotty in the 50s? Someone ,usually the meeker lads were given the job of "keepin dixie"

[jimbo]

did I say meeker? meant of course the less madder