Top nine EFC number nines.....

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Dixie Dean 383 goals in 433 games. Different era, but that's a phenomenal record.

Can't ever see anybody beating that. No chance. And if anybody ever did, they'd never score them in that amount of games. It'd take them near 600 games these days to get anywhere near 383 goals.

Put it this way, someone would have to notch 30 goals a season every single year for 13 years to do it!!
 

summerisle said:
Dixie : 349 goals in 399 games
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I know it's not everton related but messi has scored 289 goals in 312 games for Barcelona. In the modern game his record is nearly on par with the great man. I don't think anyone would get near deans ratio of games to goals, but messi has.
 
Ronaldo mustn't be far off those goals per game ratios for Real Madrid now too. They're freaks of nature though. Statistics like theirs don't come around too often, let alone in the same league at the same time!
 
The difference with them is they're playing for top clubs already.

These days if a striker scoring 30 goals a season played for us, they'd be snapped straight up by one of the Sky clubs in England, or a top European club.

There's absolutely no chance a club of our current standing could keep hold of a player who was that good for more than two years, never mind 13 years, unless we were a successful top club already.
 

However, I'd like to think a regular 30 goals a season striker could maybe propel us into that same bracket, meaning the likes of Man U, Man C or Chelsea couldn't prise him off us anyway, even with loads of dollar!!
 
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dean was scoring them with a 6lb football (when wet) and getting genuine GBH off centre half's every match! It must have been an almost religious experience to see him play. I knew an old guy, Mr Kenny, who was there when he scored his first header at Goodison after nearly dying in the motorcycle crash and the rumour had got around that he would never be able to head the ball again. Mr Kenny said that when it Dean's header went in, it was the first time he had really felt happy since returning from the Somme, that's some f*cking statement that! He said Dean was the closest thing he had ever seen to perfection.
 
Bluebonic said:
dean was scoring them with a 6lb football (when wet) and getting genuine GBH off centre half's every match! It must have been an almost religious experience to see him play. I knew an old guy, Mr Kenny, who was there when he scored his first header at Goodison after nearly dying in the motorcycle crash and the rumour had got around that he would never be able to head the ball again. Mr Kenny said that when it Dean's header went in, it was the first time he had really felt happy since returning from the Somme, that's some f*cking statement that! He said Dean was the closest thing he had ever seen to perfection.
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Felt a bit emotional reading it.

In June 1926 Dixie took his girlfriend out to North Wales on his motorcycle. Whilst driving along St Asaph road they were involved in an accident with a motor cycle combination with two men in .All but the girl was seriously injured . Dixie was told he would never play football again. Just 15 weeks later he proved the doctors wrong and was back playing football for his beloved Everton . Dean had a broken jaw and a fractured Skull. Metal plates were inserted to help mend the skull . But they were removed later destroying the myth of them still being in his head when he rose to power the ball in the back of the net with his head. But you can forget this if you want to keep up the mystic of the legend of Dixie.

Whilst recuperating in hospital he helped out transporting corpses to and from the mortuary. One day young Dean was found swinging from branch to branch in an apple tree collecting fresh ripe fruit for the hospital patients and staff .The passing doctor looked up at Dean and said if you can do that you can go back to training for the Blues. Dixie donned the Royal Blue again and played for the remainder of the season scoring 21 times in 27 games.
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http://www.nsno.co.uk/vintage/dixie-dean-a-legend-among-greats/
 
Everything that can be said about Dixie has been said, and it goes without saying a legend amongst legends, but that Tommy Lawton record really jumps of the page he must have been some player.
 
Lawton has to be up there with the all time Everton great number 9s, having scored in every game one season.
 

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