Erling Haaland has broken a Premier League record but not Dixie Dean’s

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Haaland has overtaken Alan Shearer and Andy Cole, but is still some way short of Dean’s tally of 60 goals in the 1927-28 season

By Paul McParlan for These Football Times

There is a statue on the perimeter of Goodison Park that commemorates the most prolific goalscorer England has ever produced. He scored 60 league goals in one season and, more than 40 years after his death, is still the yardstick against which all strikers are judged. That man is Dixie Dean.

William Ralph Dean was born in Birkenhead on 21 January 1906. Although the nickname “Dixie” persisted throughout his career, he detested it and anybody careless enough to address him as Dixie was reminded his name was Bill. As a kid he was known as “Digsy” due to a street game of tag, which involved digging your fist into the back of somebody you had tagged. When he started playing for the Wirral railway company’s football team as a teenager, establishing a reputation as a goalscoring prodigy, local press reports referred to him as “Dixie” rather than “Digsy” and the name stuck.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/these-football-times/2023/may/05/dixie-dean-premier-league-record-alan-shearer-andy-cole

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