Dixie Dean
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William Ralph Dean better known as Dixie Dean, was an English
football player. Dean originally started his career with Birkenhead based Tranmere Rovers before moving on to Everton, the club he had supported as a child, where he became one of the most prolific goal-scorers in English football
history. Dean played the majority of his career at Everton before injuries caught up with him and he moved on to new challenges at Notts County and Ireland's Sligo Rovers. He is best known for his exploits in 1927-28 season which saw Dean score 60 league goals - a record which stands to this day.
A statue of Dean was unveiled outside Goodison Park
in May 2001. A year later Dean became one of 22 players inducted into the inaugural English football hall of fame
. He was the first Everton player to wear the "number 9" shirt. Dean is regarded as one of the greatest pre-war sports heroes in British culture.
, Cheshire
a major town on the Wirral Peninsula
. It is on the opposite side of the River Mersey
to Liverpool
. Dean's family on both his mother and father's side hailed from Chester. He was the grandson of Ralph Brett, a train driver who drove the royal train during the reign of George V
. Dean grew up as a supporter of Everton
thanks to the efforts of his father, William Sr who once took him during the 1914-1915 title winning season.
Dean's childhood coincided with the First World War
and between the age of 7 and 11 he delivered cow's milk to local families as part of the "war effort: "Well, it was war time you see, so you were grafting all the time. I used to take milk out. I’d be up at half-past four in the morning and go down and get the ponies and the milk floats, then I’d come out to this place in Upton, between Upton
and Arrowe Park
, and Burgess’ Farm was there. We used to collect the milk in the big urns and take it out to people’s houses, serving it out of the ladle. And not only that, you had an allotment, and that was in school time. And there was no such thing as pinching and stealing and all that bloody caper. In those days, you were growing all that stuff and you needed it for the war time."
Dean attended Laird Street School but felt he was given no formal education. He said: "My only lesson was football[...]I used to give the pens out on Friday afternoons...the ink, and the chalks. That was the only job I had in school[...]I never had any lessons."
When he turned 11, he voluntarily attended Albert (Memorial) Industrial school, a borstal
school in Birkenhead because of the football facilities on offer. The Dean family home had little room for him due to family's size and Dean was happy with the arrangement as he could play for the borstal school's football team. Dean falsely told fellow pupils he was caught stealing as he didn't want to be considered too virtuous by his fellow pupil.
He left school aged 14 and worked for Wirral Railway
as an apprentice fitter, his father William Sr. also worked there. His father had been working on the railway since he was 11 years old for Great Western Railway
, he later became as a train driver before moving to Birkenhead to work for Wirral Railway and be closer to his future wife and William Jr.'s mother Sarah. Dean's father William Sr. would later retire with the company.
Dean took on a night-job so that he could concentrate on his first love, football: "The other two apprentice fitters, they didn’t like the night job because there were too many bloody rats around there, coming out of the Anglo-oil company and the Vacamoil company...rats as big as whippets. So I took their night job, and of course, I could always have a game of football then." Dean would kick the trespassing rats against the wall.
His manager at Wirral Railway's sons were directors of New Brighton A.F.C.
and they had expressed an interested in signing Dean. Dean had told the club that he was not interested in signing and would later play for local team Pensby United in Pensby. It was at Pensby United where Dean attracted attention of a Tranmere Rovers scout.
. In Dean's obituary in The Times
, Geoffrey Green
suggested that the nickname was taken from a "Dixie" song that was in the chart during Dean's childhood as there was "something of the Uncle Tom
about his features".
Alternatively, the Tranmere Rovers's club historian Gilbert Upton uncovered evidence that the name 'Dixie' could be a corruption of his childhood nickname, Digsy - acquired from his approach to the children's game of tag, where Dean would dig his fist into the girl's back, hence 'Digsy'.
before moving to Everton
. Whilst at Tranmere, he was on the receiving end of a tough challenge which resulted in him losing a testicle
in a reserve game against Altrincham. Immediately following the challenge, a team mate rubbed the area to soothe the pain. Dean shouted "Don't rub 'em, count 'em!".
He scored 27 goals in 30 league appearances for Tranmere Rovers and was attracting the interest of many clubs across England including Arsenal F.C.
and Newcastle United F.C.
.
Upon leaving Tranmere Rovers, the secretary Bert Cooke
reneged on an agreement to pay 10% of the transfer fee to Dean. Dean was paid 1% of the fee which he gave to his parents who in turn donated it to Birkenhead General Hospital
.
. It was a dream come true for him when Everton secretary Thomas H. McIntosh
arranged to meet him at the Woodside Hotel in 1925. Dean was so excited that he ran the 2.5 miles (4 km) distance from his home in the North End of Birkenhead to the riverside to meet him.
He later revealed he was expecting a £300 signing fee to be given to his parents when he transferred to Everton but they received only £30. Tranmere Rovers' manager Bert Cooke told him "that’s all the League will allow". Dean appealed to John McKenna, the Football Association Chairman but was told "I’m afraid you’ve signed, and that’s it."
Dean signed for Everton for £3,000, then a record fee received for Tranmere Rovers. The new signing made an immediate impact, scoring 32 goals in his first full season.
A motorcycling accident at Holywell
in North Wales
left Dean with a fractured skull and jaw in the summer 1926. Doctors were unsure of whether he would be able to play again. Fortunately he did do and in his very next game for Everton he scored using his head leading Evertonians to joke that the doctor had left the metal plate in Dean's head.
He is still the only player in English football to have scored 60 League goals in one season (1927-28
).
In the same season Everton won the First Division
title. Although Everton were relegated to Second Division
in 1930, Dean stayed with them, and the club subsequently won the Second Division in 1931
, followed by the First Division again in 1932
, and the FA Cup
in 1933
(in which he scored in the final itself
) - a sequence of success not matched since.
In December 1933, Dean issued a public appeal to have goods stolen returned to him. The Times
newspaper issued a statement reading: "Dixie Dean, the Everton and England forward appeals to the thief who robbed him of an international cap and presentation clock to return them. His house in Caldy Road, Walton, Liverpool was entered in his absence over Christmas, and the thief left behind gold watches and jewelry (sic)."
By then, Dean was captain of the side. However, the harsh physical demands of the game (as it was played then) took their toll, and he was dropped from the first team in 1937.
town centre was said to be crammed with wondrous locals, clamouring to catch a glimpse of the legendary player. He scored 10 goals in seven games for the Connacht
club including 5 in a 7-1 win over Waterford which remains a club record for the most goals scored in a single game.
He also played four Cup matches scoring once. His goal came in the final against Shelbourne
which ended in a 1-1 draw, Shelbourne taking the replay 0-1. Subsequently, Dean’s runners up medal was stolen from his hotel room. On a return trip to Ireland to watch Rovers 39 years later in the 1978 cup final a package was delivered to his hotel room with the medal inside.
in the Cheshire County League
1939-40 season, managing two games and one goal before the outbreak of war truncated his career. He made his debut is a 4-0 loss to Stalybridge Celtic and 5,600 people attended the game and Ashton United took gate receipts of £140
against British rivals Wales at the Racecourse Ground
in Wrexham
in February 1927, less than a month after his 20th birthday. His final game for England came in a 1-0 victory over Ireland in October 1932 at Blackpool F.C.
's Bloomfield Road
when Dean was 25 years old.
Dean was involved in the 1927
and 1929
editions of the British Home Championship
. During the 1927 edition, Dean four goals in his two games for England. He scored twice against Scotland at Hampden Park. Despite the loss, the Scots won the competition overall and applauded Dean for his efforts who finished the tournament as top scorer. In the 1929 edition he scored in his only outing against Ireland at Goodison Park.
The only international competitions outside of the British Home Championship during Dean's international career were the 1928 and 1936 Olympic Games and the inaugural FIFA World Cup
which took place in 1930
but Great Britain nor England participated.
In total Dean represented England 16 times and scored 18 goals in 8 games including hat-tricks against Belgium and Luxembourg.
in 1931 while still playing for Everton and England. He was initiated in Randle Holme Lodge, No. 3261 on 18 February 1931 in Birkenhead, Cheshire.
After retiring, he went on to run the Dublin Packet pub
in Chester
, (Everton and the Dublin Packet commemorates this with memorabilia) and work at Littlewoods
Football pools
as a porter at their Walton Hall Avenue offices, where he was remembered by fellow workers as a quiet, unassuming man.
In January 1972 he was admitted to St. Catherine's hospital in Birkenhead suffering from effects of influenza
. He was released a month later.
In November 1976 he had his right leg amputated due to a blood clot
. His health was waning and Dean could not leave his house as much as he would like to.
whilst watching a match against their closest rivals, Liverpool
. It was the first time that Dean had visited Goodison Park for several years due to ill-health.
The funeral took place at St. James Church on Laird Street, the street where he was born in Birkenhead.
an Italian prisoner of war was captured by British troops in the Western Desert, and told his captors "fuck your Winston Churchill
and fuck your Dixie Dean", exemplifying Dean's international status. One of the soldiers present was Liverpool-born Patrick Connelly who later went into show business using the pseudonym "Bill Dean
".
Everton arranged a testimonial for Dean in April 1964. Between 34 and 40 thousand people attended to see a Scotland XI and England XI, composed of players from Everton and Liverpool, compete. The Scots won 3-1.
Dean's 1933 FA Cup winners medal sold for £18,213 at auction in March 2001.
In May 2001, local sculptor Tom Murphy completed a statue of Dean which was erected outside the Park End of the stadium at a cost of £75,000 carrying the inscription, "Footballer, Gentleman, Evertonian".
In 2002 Dean became an Inaugural Inductee to the English Football Hall of Fame
.
There is an award named the "Dixie Dean" which is given to the Merseyside player of the year, it has been won by players of his former clubs Tranmere and Everton - and even Liverpool F.C.
When asked if he thought his record of scoring 60 goals in a season would be broken, he said: "People ask me if that 60-goal record will ever be beaten. I think it will. But there's only one man who'll do it. That's the fellow that walks on the water. I think he's about the only one."
In total, Dean scored 383 goals for Everton, in 433 appearances, an exceptional strike-rate, including 37 hat-tricks. Modern scoring rates are lower, so both that record, and the record of 60 League goals in a season, are unlikely to be broken. He was also known as a very sporting player, never booked or sent off throughout his entire career despite suffering rough treatment and provocation from opponents. Only Arthur Rowley
has scored more English league career goals, although it should be noted that while Rowley made 619 appearances, scoring 433 goals (0.70 goals per game), Dean scored 379 goals in 438 games (0.87 goals per game)
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
football player. Dean originally started his career with Birkenhead based Tranmere Rovers before moving on to Everton, the club he had supported as a child, where he became one of the most prolific goal-scorers in English football
Football in England
Association football is a national sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game...
history. Dean played the majority of his career at Everton before injuries caught up with him and he moved on to new challenges at Notts County and Ireland's Sligo Rovers. He is best known for his exploits in 1927-28 season which saw Dean score 60 league goals - a record which stands to this day.
A statue of Dean was unveiled outside Goodison Park
Goodison Park
Goodison Park is a football stadium located in Walton, Liverpool, England. The stadium has been home to Everton F.C. since its completion in 1892 and is one of the world's first purpose-built football grounds...
in May 2001. A year later Dean became one of 22 players inducted into the inaugural English football hall of fame
English Football Hall of Fame
The English Football Hall of Fame is housed at the National Football Museum, currently being relocated to Manchester, England. The Hall aims to celebrate and highlight the achievements of the all-time top English footballing talents, as well as non-English players and managers who have become...
. He was the first Everton player to wear the "number 9" shirt. Dean is regarded as one of the greatest pre-war sports heroes in British culture.
Early years
Dean was born at 325 Laird Street in BirkenheadBirkenhead
Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England. It is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool...
, Cheshire
Cheshire
Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...
a major town on the Wirral Peninsula
Wirral Peninsula
Wirral or the Wirral is a peninsula in North West England. It is bounded by three bodies of water: to the west by the River Dee, forming a boundary with Wales, to the east by the River Mersey and to the north by the Irish Sea. Both terms "Wirral" and "the Wirral" are used locally , although the...
. It is on the opposite side of the River Mersey
River Mersey
The River Mersey is a river in North West England. It is around long, stretching from Stockport, Greater Manchester, and ending at Liverpool Bay, Merseyside. For centuries, it formed part of the ancient county divide between Lancashire and Cheshire....
to Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
. Dean's family on both his mother and father's side hailed from Chester. He was the grandson of Ralph Brett, a train driver who drove the royal train during the reign of George V
George V
George V was king of the United Kingdom and its dominions from 1910 to 1936.George V or similar terms may also refer to:-People:* George V of Georgia * George V of Imereti * George V of Hanover...
. Dean grew up as a supporter of Everton
Everton F.C.
Everton Football Club are an English professional association football club from the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football...
thanks to the efforts of his father, William Sr who once took him during the 1914-1915 title winning season.
Dean's childhood coincided with the First World War
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
and between the age of 7 and 11 he delivered cow's milk to local families as part of the "war effort: "Well, it was war time you see, so you were grafting all the time. I used to take milk out. I’d be up at half-past four in the morning and go down and get the ponies and the milk floats, then I’d come out to this place in Upton, between Upton
Upton, Merseyside
Upton is a village in the parish of Overchurch on the Wirral Peninsula, England, situated close to Birkenhead. At the 2001 Census, the population was 15,731 , although as a ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, encompassing a larger area, it was recorded as 16,200.-History:Upton was...
and Arrowe Park
Arrowe Park
Arrowe Park is an area of parkland, woodland and leisure facilities to the west of Birkenhead within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, England. The park comprises approximately of land.-History:...
, and Burgess’ Farm was there. We used to collect the milk in the big urns and take it out to people’s houses, serving it out of the ladle. And not only that, you had an allotment, and that was in school time. And there was no such thing as pinching and stealing and all that bloody caper. In those days, you were growing all that stuff and you needed it for the war time."
Dean attended Laird Street School but felt he was given no formal education. He said: "My only lesson was football[...]I used to give the pens out on Friday afternoons...the ink, and the chalks. That was the only job I had in school[...]I never had any lessons."
When he turned 11, he voluntarily attended Albert (Memorial) Industrial school, a borstal
Borstal
A borstal was a type of youth prison in the United Kingdom, run by the Prison Service and intended to reform seriously delinquent young people. The word is sometimes used loosely to apply to other kinds of youth institution or reformatory, such as Approved Schools and Detention Centres. The court...
school in Birkenhead because of the football facilities on offer. The Dean family home had little room for him due to family's size and Dean was happy with the arrangement as he could play for the borstal school's football team. Dean falsely told fellow pupils he was caught stealing as he didn't want to be considered too virtuous by his fellow pupil.
He left school aged 14 and worked for Wirral Railway
Wirral Railway
The Wirral Railway was incorporated in 1863 as the Hoylake Railway , with powers to build lines from Birkenhead to New Brighton, and to Parkgate on the western side of the Wirral Peninsula; the latter line was not built. Between 1872 and 1882 the HR was renamed twice, and extensions of the line...
as an apprentice fitter, his father William Sr. also worked there. His father had been working on the railway since he was 11 years old for Great Western Railway
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...
, he later became as a train driver before moving to Birkenhead to work for Wirral Railway and be closer to his future wife and William Jr.'s mother Sarah. Dean's father William Sr. would later retire with the company.
Dean took on a night-job so that he could concentrate on his first love, football: "The other two apprentice fitters, they didn’t like the night job because there were too many bloody rats around there, coming out of the Anglo-oil company and the Vacamoil company...rats as big as whippets. So I took their night job, and of course, I could always have a game of football then." Dean would kick the trespassing rats against the wall.
His manager at Wirral Railway's sons were directors of New Brighton A.F.C.
New Brighton A.F.C.
-Revived club:New Brighton A.F.C. were reborn in 1993, and joined the Birkenhead and Wirral League, which they won in their first season. In 1995 the club switched to the South Wirral League. After upgrading their new ground, the club were admitted to the Second Division of the West Cheshire League...
and they had expressed an interested in signing Dean. Dean had told the club that he was not interested in signing and would later play for local team Pensby United in Pensby. It was at Pensby United where Dean attracted attention of a Tranmere Rovers scout.
"Dixie" nickname
Dean and his family never appreciated the Dixie nickname and preferred people to call him or "Bill" or "Billy". The popular theory regarding how Dean acquired the nickname Dixie is that he did so in his youth, perhaps due to his dark complexion and hair which bore a resemblance to people from the Southern United StatesSouthern United States
The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive area in the southeastern and south-central United States...
. In Dean's obituary in The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, Geoffrey Green
Geoffrey Green
Geoffrey Green was a distinguished English football writer.Geoffrey Green was educated at Shrewsbury School, where he played football to a high standard. He started writing for The Times in the 1930s when football was not afforded much respectability among the paper's traditional readership...
suggested that the nickname was taken from a "Dixie" song that was in the chart during Dean's childhood as there was "something of the Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom is a derogatory term for a person who perceives themselves to be of low status, and is excessively subservient to perceived authority figures; particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to white people....
about his features".
Alternatively, the Tranmere Rovers's club historian Gilbert Upton uncovered evidence that the name 'Dixie' could be a corruption of his childhood nickname, Digsy - acquired from his approach to the children's game of tag, where Dean would dig his fist into the girl's back, hence 'Digsy'.
Tranmere Rovers
Dean initially played for his local club Tranmere RoversTranmere Rovers F.C.
Tranmere Rovers Football Club are an English team based in Birkenhead, Wirral. The club currently compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system...
before moving to Everton
Everton F.C.
Everton Football Club are an English professional association football club from the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football...
. Whilst at Tranmere, he was on the receiving end of a tough challenge which resulted in him losing a testicle
Testicle
The testicle is the male gonad in animals. Like the ovaries to which they are homologous, testes are components of both the reproductive system and the endocrine system...
in a reserve game against Altrincham. Immediately following the challenge, a team mate rubbed the area to soothe the pain. Dean shouted "Don't rub 'em, count 'em!".
He scored 27 goals in 30 league appearances for Tranmere Rovers and was attracting the interest of many clubs across England including Arsenal F.C.
Arsenal F.C.
Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...
and Newcastle United F.C.
Newcastle United F.C.
Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has played at its current home ground, St James' Park, since the merger...
.
Upon leaving Tranmere Rovers, the secretary Bert Cooke
Bert Cooke
Bert Cooke was a football manager. He managed Tranmere Rovers from 1912-1935, the longest spell of any manager at the club. He oversaw their first Football League match in 1921.-Management career:...
reneged on an agreement to pay 10% of the transfer fee to Dean. Dean was paid 1% of the fee which he gave to his parents who in turn donated it to Birkenhead General Hospital
Birkenhead General Hospital
Birkenhead General Hospital was a hospital in Birkenhead, England. The hospital was built in 1864 and ceased to be used in 1982....
.
Everton
Dean had seen Everton play only once, his father took him to a league game when he 8 years old at Goodison ParkGoodison Park
Goodison Park is a football stadium located in Walton, Liverpool, England. The stadium has been home to Everton F.C. since its completion in 1892 and is one of the world's first purpose-built football grounds...
. It was a dream come true for him when Everton secretary Thomas H. McIntosh
Thomas H. McIntosh
Thomas Herbert McIntosh more commonly known as Thomas H. McIntosh was secretary manager of Darlington, Middlesbrough and Everton- Biography :He played for Darlington before becoming secretary manager in 1902...
arranged to meet him at the Woodside Hotel in 1925. Dean was so excited that he ran the 2.5 miles (4 km) distance from his home in the North End of Birkenhead to the riverside to meet him.
He later revealed he was expecting a £300 signing fee to be given to his parents when he transferred to Everton but they received only £30. Tranmere Rovers' manager Bert Cooke told him "that’s all the League will allow". Dean appealed to John McKenna, the Football Association Chairman but was told "I’m afraid you’ve signed, and that’s it."
Dean signed for Everton for £3,000, then a record fee received for Tranmere Rovers. The new signing made an immediate impact, scoring 32 goals in his first full season.
A motorcycling accident at Holywell
Holywell
Holywell is the fifth largest town in Flintshire, North Wales, lying to the west of the estuary of the River Dee.-History:The market town of Holywell takes its name from the St Winefride's Well, a holy well surrounded by a chapel...
in North Wales
North Wales
North Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales. It is bordered to the south by the counties of Ceredigion and Powys in Mid Wales and to the east by the counties of Shropshire in the West Midlands and Cheshire in North West England...
left Dean with a fractured skull and jaw in the summer 1926. Doctors were unsure of whether he would be able to play again. Fortunately he did do and in his very next game for Everton he scored using his head leading Evertonians to joke that the doctor had left the metal plate in Dean's head.
He is still the only player in English football to have scored 60 League goals in one season (1927-28
1927-28 in English football
The 1927–28 season was the 53rd season of competitive football in England.-Events:This was the season in which Dixie Dean scored an astounding 60 goals in 39 league appearances for Everton – 58.8% of their seasons total .-Honours:...
).
In the same season Everton won the First Division
Football League First Division
The First Division was a division of The Football League between 1888 and 2004 and the highest division in English football until the creation of the Premier League in 1992. The secondary tier in English football has since become known as the Championship....
title. Although Everton were relegated to Second Division
Football League Second Division
From 1892 until 1992, the Football League Second Division was the second highest division overall in English football.This ended with the creation of the FA Premier League, prior to the start of the 1992–93 season, which caused an administrative split between The Football League and the teams...
in 1930, Dean stayed with them, and the club subsequently won the Second Division in 1931
1930-31 in English football
The 1930–31 season was the 56th season of competitive football in England.-Events:Of note this season was Manchester United's record of the worst start in a major European league – they lost their first twelve games of the season and went on to be relegated....
, followed by the First Division again in 1932
1931-32 in English football
The 1931–32 season was the 57th season of competitive football in England.-Honours:Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour...
, and the FA Cup
FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...
in 1933
1933 FA Cup Final
The 1933 FA Cup Final was a football match between Everton and Manchester City on 29 April 1933 at Wembley Stadium in London. The deciding match of English football's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup , it was the 62nd final, and the 11th at Wembley...
(in which he scored in the final itself
1933 FA Cup Final
The 1933 FA Cup Final was a football match between Everton and Manchester City on 29 April 1933 at Wembley Stadium in London. The deciding match of English football's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup , it was the 62nd final, and the 11th at Wembley...
) - a sequence of success not matched since.
In December 1933, Dean issued a public appeal to have goods stolen returned to him. The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
newspaper issued a statement reading: "Dixie Dean, the Everton and England forward appeals to the thief who robbed him of an international cap and presentation clock to return them. His house in Caldy Road, Walton, Liverpool was entered in his absence over Christmas, and the thief left behind gold watches and jewelry (sic)."
By then, Dean was captain of the side. However, the harsh physical demands of the game (as it was played then) took their toll, and he was dropped from the first team in 1937.
Sligo Rovers
At 32, Dean signed for Irish team Sligo Rovers in January 1939 in time to help the club with their FAI Cup campaign. On his arrival, the Railway Pub in SligoSligo
Sligo is the county town of County Sligo in Ireland. The town is a borough and has a charter and a town mayor. It is sometimes referred to as a city, and sometimes as a town, and is the second largest urban area in Connacht...
town centre was said to be crammed with wondrous locals, clamouring to catch a glimpse of the legendary player. He scored 10 goals in seven games for the Connacht
Connacht
Connacht , formerly anglicised as Connaught, is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the west of Ireland. In Ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for...
club including 5 in a 7-1 win over Waterford which remains a club record for the most goals scored in a single game.
He also played four Cup matches scoring once. His goal came in the final against Shelbourne
Shelbourne F.C.
Shelbourne Football Club is an Irish professional football club based in the Drumcondra area of Dublin, currently playing in the League of Ireland Premier Division....
which ended in a 1-1 draw, Shelbourne taking the replay 0-1. Subsequently, Dean’s runners up medal was stolen from his hotel room. On a return trip to Ireland to watch Rovers 39 years later in the 1978 cup final a package was delivered to his hotel room with the medal inside.
Ashton United
He ended his professional playing days with Hurst F.C.Ashton United F.C.
Ashton United Football Club is an English football club, based in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester.-History:The club was originally founded in 1878 as Hurst F.C. and the earliest known match report dates back to March 1879. By 1880 the club were playing at Hurst Cross, their current ground....
in the Cheshire County League
Cheshire County League
The Cheshire County League was a football league founded in the north west of England in 1919, drawing its teams largely from Cheshire, surrounding English counties and North Wales....
1939-40 season, managing two games and one goal before the outbreak of war truncated his career. He made his debut is a 4-0 loss to Stalybridge Celtic and 5,600 people attended the game and Ashton United took gate receipts of £140
International career
Dean made his début for the England national football teamEngland national football team
The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
against British rivals Wales at the Racecourse Ground
Racecourse Ground
The Glyndŵr University Racecourse Stadium AKA The Racecourse Ground is a stadium located in Wrexham, North Wales. It is the home of Wrexham F.C. and, since 2010, the Crusaders Rugby League team who play in the engage Super League...
in Wrexham
Wrexham
Wrexham is a town in Wales. It is the administrative centre of the wider Wrexham County Borough, and the largest town in North Wales, located in the east of the region. It is situated between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley close to the border with Cheshire, England...
in February 1927, less than a month after his 20th birthday. His final game for England came in a 1-0 victory over Ireland in October 1932 at Blackpool F.C.
Blackpool F.C.
Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...
's Bloomfield Road
Bloomfield Road
Bloomfield Road is an all-seater football stadium in the English town of Blackpool, Lancashire. It has been the permanent home of Blackpool F.C. since 1901 and is named after the road on which the stadium's main entrance used to stand. The stadium has been in a process of redevelopment since 2000...
when Dean was 25 years old.
Dean was involved in the 1927
1927 British Home Championship
The 1927 British Home Championship was a football tournament played between the British Home Nations during the 1926–27 season. It was shared by England and Scotland after a series of high scoring draws in the opening matches left England, Wales and Ireland well behind with Scotland ahead,...
and 1929
1929 British Home Championship
The 1929 British Home Championship was a football tournament played between the British Home Nations during the 1928–29 season. The competition was won by Scotland, who won all three matches with strong attacking football epitomised by Hughie Gallacher, who scored seven of his team's 12 goals...
editions of the British Home Championship
British Home Championship
The British Home Championship was an annual football competition contested between the United Kingdom's four national teams, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from the 1883–84 season until the 1983–84...
. During the 1927 edition, Dean four goals in his two games for England. He scored twice against Scotland at Hampden Park. Despite the loss, the Scots won the competition overall and applauded Dean for his efforts who finished the tournament as top scorer. In the 1929 edition he scored in his only outing against Ireland at Goodison Park.
The only international competitions outside of the British Home Championship during Dean's international career were the 1928 and 1936 Olympic Games and the inaugural FIFA World Cup
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...
which took place in 1930
1930 FIFA World Cup
The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in Uruguay from 13 July to 30 July 1930...
but Great Britain nor England participated.
In total Dean represented England 16 times and scored 18 goals in 8 games including hat-tricks against Belgium and Luxembourg.
Endorsements
Dean was involved in many high-profile endorsements of products.Personal life and post-football career
Dean became a FreemasonFreemasonry
Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation that arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century. Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around six million, including approximately 150,000 under the jurisdictions of the Grand Lodge...
in 1931 while still playing for Everton and England. He was initiated in Randle Holme Lodge, No. 3261 on 18 February 1931 in Birkenhead, Cheshire.
After retiring, he went on to run the Dublin Packet pub
Public house
A public house, informally known as a pub, is a drinking establishment fundamental to the culture of Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. There are approximately 53,500 public houses in the United Kingdom. This number has been declining every year, so that nearly half of the smaller...
in Chester
Chester
Chester is a city in Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77,040 inhabitants, and is the largest and most populous settlement of the wider unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a population of 328,100 according to the...
, (Everton and the Dublin Packet commemorates this with memorabilia) and work at Littlewoods
Littlewoods
Littlewoods is the name of a former retail and gambling company founded in Liverpool, Merseyside, England by John Moores in 1923.It started as a shopping catalogue company, processing orders by post in the early 1970s. In 1981, it expanded to a call centre, processing orders via telephone. At its...
Football pools
Football pools
A football pool, often collectively referred to as "the pools", is a betting pool based on predicting the outcome of top-level association football matches set to take place in the coming week. The pools are typically cheap to enter, with the potential to win huge money. Entries were traditionally...
as a porter at their Walton Hall Avenue offices, where he was remembered by fellow workers as a quiet, unassuming man.
In January 1972 he was admitted to St. Catherine's hospital in Birkenhead suffering from effects of influenza
Influenza
Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae , that affects birds and mammals...
. He was released a month later.
In November 1976 he had his right leg amputated due to a blood clot
Thrombosis
Thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel, obstructing the flow of blood through the circulatory system. When a blood vessel is injured, the body uses platelets and fibrin to form a blood clot to prevent blood loss...
. His health was waning and Dean could not leave his house as much as he would like to.
Death
Dean died on 1 March 1980, aged 73 after suffering a heart attack at Everton's home ground Goodison ParkGoodison Park
Goodison Park is a football stadium located in Walton, Liverpool, England. The stadium has been home to Everton F.C. since its completion in 1892 and is one of the world's first purpose-built football grounds...
whilst watching a match against their closest rivals, Liverpool
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...
. It was the first time that Dean had visited Goodison Park for several years due to ill-health.
The funeral took place at St. James Church on Laird Street, the street where he was born in Birkenhead.
Legacy
Dean was an internationally renowned figure. Military records show that during the Second World WarWorld War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
an Italian prisoner of war was captured by British troops in the Western Desert, and told his captors "fuck your Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
and fuck your Dixie Dean", exemplifying Dean's international status. One of the soldiers present was Liverpool-born Patrick Connelly who later went into show business using the pseudonym "Bill Dean
Bill Dean
Bill Dean was a British actor who was born in Everton, Liverpool. He was born Patrick Connolly but took his stage name in honour of Everton football legend William 'Dixie' Dean.- Biography :...
".
Everton arranged a testimonial for Dean in April 1964. Between 34 and 40 thousand people attended to see a Scotland XI and England XI, composed of players from Everton and Liverpool, compete. The Scots won 3-1.
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Dean's 1933 FA Cup winners medal sold for £18,213 at auction in March 2001.
In May 2001, local sculptor Tom Murphy completed a statue of Dean which was erected outside the Park End of the stadium at a cost of £75,000 carrying the inscription, "Footballer, Gentleman, Evertonian".
In 2002 Dean became an Inaugural Inductee to the English Football Hall of Fame
English Football Hall of Fame
The English Football Hall of Fame is housed at the National Football Museum, currently being relocated to Manchester, England. The Hall aims to celebrate and highlight the achievements of the all-time top English footballing talents, as well as non-English players and managers who have become...
.
There is an award named the "Dixie Dean" which is given to the Merseyside player of the year, it has been won by players of his former clubs Tranmere and Everton - and even Liverpool F.C.
When asked if he thought his record of scoring 60 goals in a season would be broken, he said: "People ask me if that 60-goal record will ever be beaten. I think it will. But there's only one man who'll do it. That's the fellow that walks on the water. I think he's about the only one."
In total, Dean scored 383 goals for Everton, in 433 appearances, an exceptional strike-rate, including 37 hat-tricks. Modern scoring rates are lower, so both that record, and the record of 60 League goals in a season, are unlikely to be broken. He was also known as a very sporting player, never booked or sent off throughout his entire career despite suffering rough treatment and provocation from opponents. Only Arthur Rowley
Arthur Rowley
George Arthur Rowley, , nicknamed "The Gunner" because of his explosive left-foot shot, was an English football player and cricketer. He holds the record for the most goals in the history of English league football, scoring 434 from 619 league games. He was the younger brother of Manchester United...
has scored more English league career goals, although it should be noted that while Rowley made 619 appearances, scoring 433 goals (0.70 goals per game), Dean scored 379 goals in 438 games (0.87 goals per game)
Everton
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: 1 (1931) - FA Charity Shield:2 (1928, 1932)
- FA CupFA CupThe Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...
: 1 (1933) - Central League Championship: 1 (1938)
Individual
- England Caps: 16
- England Goals: 18
- Football League Representative Appearances: 6
- Football League Representative Goals: 9
- 'Sunday Pictorial Trophy' for 60 League Goals in 1927-28
- Lewis's Medal to commemorate 200 league goals in 199 appearances
- Hall of Fame Trophy (1971)
- Football Writers' AssociationFootball Writers' AssociationThe Football Writers' Association is an association of England football journalists and correspondents writing for newspapers and agencies, founded in 1947....
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(2002)
Career statistics
| Club | Division | Season | League | FA Cup | Club Total | International | Total Games | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||||
| Notts County Notts County F.C. Notts County Football Club are an English professional football club based in Nottingham. They are the oldest of all the clubs in the world that are now professional, having been formed in 1862. They currently play in League One of The Football League, the third tier of the English football system... |
Third | 1938-39 | 6 | 3 | - | - | 6 | 3 | - | - | 6 | 3 | ||
| Third | 1937-38 | 3 | 0 | - | - | 3 | 0 | - | - | 3 | 0 | |||
| Total | 9 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 3 | ||||
| Everton Everton F.C. Everton Football Club are an English professional association football club from the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football... |
First | 1937-38 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | 5 | 1 | ||
| First | 1936-37 | 36 | 24 | 4 | 3 | 40 | 27 | - | - | 40 | 27 | |||
| First | 1935-36 | 29 | 17 | - | - | 29 | 17 | - | - | 29 | 17 | |||
| First | 1934-35 | 38 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 43 | 27 | - | - | 43 | 27 | |||
| First | 1933-34 | 12 | 9 | - | - | 12 | 9 | - | - | 12 | 9 | |||
| First | 1932-33 | 39 | 24 | 6 | 5 | 45 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 46 | 29 | |||
| First | 1931-32 | 38 | 45 | 1 | 1 | 39 | 46 | 1 | 1 | 40 | 47 | |||
| Second | 1930-31 | 37 | 39 | 5 | 9 | 42 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 48 | |||
| First | 1929-30 | 25 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 25 | - | - | 27 | 25 | |||
| First | 1928-29 | 29 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 33 | 27 | |||
| First | 1927-28 | 39 | 60 | 2 | 3 | 41 | 63 | 5 | 4 | 46 | 67 | |||
| First | 1926-27 | 27 | 21 | 4 | 3 | 31 | 24 | 5 | 12 | 36 | 36 | |||
| First | 1925-26 | 38 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 40 | 33 | - | - | 40 | 33 | |||
| First | 1924-25 | 7 | 2 | - | - | 7 | 2 | - | - | 7 | 2 | |||
| Total | 399 | 349 | 32 | 28 | 431 | 377 | 16 | 18 | 447 | 395 | ||||
| Tranmere Tranmere Rovers F.C. Tranmere Rovers Football Club are an English team based in Birkenhead, Wirral. The club currently compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system... |
Third | 1924-25 | 27 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 27 | - | - | 30 | 27 | ||
| Third | 1923-24 | 3 | 0 | - | - | 3 | 0 | - | - | 3 | 0 | |||
| Total | 30 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 27 | - | - | 33 | 27 | ||||
| Career Totals | 438 | 379 | 35 | 28 | 473 | 407 | 16 | 18 | 489 | 425 | ||||
International goals
| Goal Number | Date Scored | Stadium | Final score | Opponent | Minute goal scored | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 February 1927 | Racecourse Ground Racecourse Ground The Glyndŵr University Racecourse Stadium AKA The Racecourse Ground is a stadium located in Wrexham, North Wales. It is the home of Wrexham F.C. and, since 2010, the Crusaders Rugby League team who play in the engage Super League... |
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| 2 | 12 February 1927 | Racecourse Ground Racecourse Ground The Glyndŵr University Racecourse Stadium AKA The Racecourse Ground is a stadium located in Wrexham, North Wales. It is the home of Wrexham F.C. and, since 2010, the Crusaders Rugby League team who play in the engage Super League... |
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| 3 | 2 April 1927 | Hampden Park Hampden Park Hampden Park is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland. The 52,063 capacity venue serves as the national stadium of football in Scotland... |
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| 4 | 2 April 1927 | Hampden Park Hampden Park Hampden Park is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland. The 52,063 capacity venue serves as the national stadium of football in Scotland... |
2-1 | |||
| 5 | 11 May 1927 | Molenbeek | 9-1 | |||
| 6 | 11 May 1927 | Molenbeek | 9-1 | |||
| 7 | 11 May 1927 | Molenbeek | 9-1 | |||
| 8 | 21 May 1927 | Stade de la Frontière Stade de la Frontière Stade de la Frontiere is a multi-purpose stadium in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Jeunesse Esch... |
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| 9 | 21 May 1927 | Stade de la Frontière Stade de la Frontière Stade de la Frontiere is a multi-purpose stadium in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Jeunesse Esch... |
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| 10 | 21 May 1927 | Stade de la Frontière Stade de la Frontière Stade de la Frontiere is a multi-purpose stadium in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Jeunesse Esch... |
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| 11 | 26 May 1927 | Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir The Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir - stadium in Colombes, near Paris, France . Named in memory of French rugby player Yves du Manoir in 1928. Was the main stadium for the 1924 Summer Olympics and had a capacity of 45,000 at the time... |
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| 12 | 26 May 1927 | Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir The Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir - stadium in Colombes, near Paris, France . Named in memory of French rugby player Yves du Manoir in 1928. Was the main stadium for the 1924 Summer Olympics and had a capacity of 45,000 at the time... |
6-0 | |||
| 13 | 17 May 1928 | Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir The Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir - stadium in Colombes, near Paris, France . Named in memory of French rugby player Yves du Manoir in 1928. Was the main stadium for the 1924 Summer Olympics and had a capacity of 45,000 at the time... |
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| 14 | 17 May 1928 | Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir The Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir - stadium in Colombes, near Paris, France . Named in memory of French rugby player Yves du Manoir in 1928. Was the main stadium for the 1924 Summer Olympics and had a capacity of 45,000 at the time... |
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| 15 | 19 May 1928 | Olympisch Stadion Olympisch Stadion (Antwerp) The Olympisch Stadion or Kielstadion was built as the main stadium for the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. For those games, it hosted the athletics, equestrian, field hockey, football, gymnastics, modern pentathlon, rugby union, tug of war, and weightlifting events. It is currently used as the... |
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| 16 | 19 May 1928 | Olympisch Stadion Olympisch Stadion (Antwerp) The Olympisch Stadion or Kielstadion was built as the main stadium for the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. For those games, it hosted the athletics, equestrian, field hockey, football, gymnastics, modern pentathlon, rugby union, tug of war, and weightlifting events. It is currently used as the... |
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| 17 | 22 October 1928 | Goodison Park Goodison Park Goodison Park is a football stadium located in Walton, Liverpool, England. The stadium has been home to Everton F.C. since its completion in 1892 and is one of the world's first purpose-built football grounds... |
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| 18 | 9 December 1931 | Arsenal Stadium Arsenal Stadium Arsenal Stadium was a football stadium in Highbury, North London, which was the home ground of Arsenal Football Club between 6 September 1913 and 7 May 2006... |
7-1 |