RIP WR(Dixie)Dean.

Joey66 · March 1, 2020

My great uncle described his 60th goal to me .......it was like a scene from the TV Drama the GV ......I have read most of Dixies books a pure athlete and goalscorer in his era....

allezlesbleus · March 1, 2020

I heard the news on the world service as I was in France that year. I shed a tear and wondered how my dad was taking the news. He had been at the match of course. Gutted, as you would expect.
My uncle had been at GP for his 60th. Just laughed and said it was amazing when ever we asked him about it!!!

tommye · March 1, 2020

Never forget him slotting his 8th against Luton in that Elland Rd semi before playing Amokachi in for our winner.
Great game.

RIP Dixie

firefighterblue · March 1, 2020

Steve Wigan said:
Dixies niece or daughter in law or something was once cut my hair. She lived in Crosby. And its always worth retelling the story of Dixie walking along Lime Street and seeing the RS goalkeeper(Elisha Scott?) on the other side of the road. Dixie nodded a 'hello' and Elisha dived into the gutter.

That would have been his granddaughter. She is married to Prentice the echo reporter. Live in Formby. Think she has something to do with the Dixie Dean hotel in Liverpool. Saw her on the opening night of the hotel and was sitting behind kenwright at the palace match

monty · March 1, 2020

What were you doing when Dixie died.......on my way home from the game fuming, on hearing the news the match was forgotten

royalblue66 · March 1, 2020

monty said:
I have been fortunate to meet the great man twice. The first occasion was when he ran the Dublin Packet in Chester, shortly before he lost that job. Some years later my second meeting when he was the doorman at Littlewoods in Canning St Birkenhead, a job arranged for him by Sir John Moores as the poor guy was almost penniless compared to todays Prima Donna's he was destitute. Needless to say the mental image of the great man putting on a brave face in those circumstances remains fixed in my mind to this day even so he'd still chat EFC.
A special presentation was made to Dixie shortly before his sad demise to celebrate his achievements in football. That award was made by Bill Shankley who hailed Dixie as "the best that was and will be and his records will last forever"
Youngsters seem to think that the game was simpler back then hence it was easier to score. If that's the case I'd like to see some of todays crowd cope with proper physicality dished out by big strapping defenders wearing studs with nails hanging out of them. Dixie is acclaimed as the greatest header of a ball the game has known, he nodded a heavy leather casey with a ridge of laces protruding that could leave an imprint on your forehead, what a man.
God rest you old lad and thanks for what you did for our club, to me you'll always be the special one at EFC. I hope when we move your statue is placed to look across the river at your home town in perpetuity.

Nice.

PhilM · March 1, 2020

monty said:
I have been fortunate to meet the great man twice.

For many years, he lived behind my wife's house when she was growing up - just off Aigburth Road in Chequers Gardens. An idol, no, the idol and he'd talk to you.

The best there ever was and the best there ever will be.

John Barton · March 1, 2020

monty said:
What were you doing when Dixie died.......on my way home from the game fuming, on hearing the news the match was forgotten

Wasnt it the same game when s##house Case finished Nultys career

Old Blue 2 · March 1, 2020

My dad (born 1911) told me when I was young that he had seen Dean play loads of times in the late-1920s and 1930s. Saw the team with the FA Cup in 1933.

The actor in Brookside, Bill Dean, is a mad Evertonian. Took that name as his stage name - real surname is Connolly. I worked with one of his sons years ago.