Today
May 5th is the 80th Anniversary of a feat that will never be
equaled in top flight professional football anywhere on the
Planet. William Ralph Dean, or plain 'Dixie' netted his 60th
League goal in Everton's Championship winning season of 1927
/ 28. Dixie was a Blues legend and in his remarkable Blues Career
he made 399 appearances, netting an astounding 349 goals, what
would he be worth today.
Dixie
was born in Birkenhead in 1907, and after playing for his local
club Tranmere Rovers he moved to the Blues in 1925. He left
Everton in 1938 where his career fizzled out at Notts County
and Sligo Rovers in Ireland. He played for England sixteen times,
scoring eighteen goals.
Dixie
died in March 1980 at the age of 73, fittingly at his beloved
Goodison Park, when he suffered a heart attack as the Blues
faced Liverpool. In 2002 Dixie became an Inaugural Inductee
to the English Football Hall of Fame, and a year before a statue
was erected outside the Park End carrying the inscription, 'Footballer,
Gentleman, Evertonian', a fitting tribute to a Legend of a footballer.
Below
are Dixie's Sixty Goals
