hello I am Dixie Dean, I was Born in Birkenhead, Merseyside, I initially played for my local club, Tranmere Rovers, before moving to my boyhood side, Everton, for a fee of £3,000 in 1925, and immediately made an impact, scoring 32 goals in his first full season.Despite a serious motorcycle accident in Holywell North Wales in 1926, in which I suffered a fractured skull and jaw, I fully recovered and went on to greater success at the club. I am 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 Division One title. Although Everton were relegated to Division Two in 1930, I 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 - a sequence of success not matched since.By then, I was captain of the side. However, the harsh physical demands of the game (as it was played then) took their toll, and I was dropped from the first team in 1937. I went on to play for Notts County and then Sligo Rovers in Ireland. After retiring, I went on to run the Dublin Packet pub in Chester, England, and work at Littlewoods Football pools as a porter at their Walton Hall Avenue offices, where I was remembered by fellow workers as a quiet, unassuming man.In total, I scored a total of 383 goals for Everton, in 433 appearances, an exceptional strike-rate. With modern scoring rates being much lower, both that record, and the record of 60 League goals in a season, are unlikely to ever be broken. I was also known as a very professional player, having never been booked or sent off throughout his entire career despite suffering rough treatment and provocation from opponents (indeed I lost a testicle in one tackle).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), I scored 379 goals in 438 games (0.87 goals per game), and while I spent one prolific season in the Second Division, that was all, while Rowley spent several seasons in the third and fourth divisions.I joined Sligo Rovers in January 1939 in time to help the club with their FAI Cup campaign. I played 7 league games for the club, scoring ten goals, including 5 in a 7-1 win over Waterford which remains a club record for the most goals scored in a single game. I also played four Cup matches scoring once. One goal came in the final against Shelbourne which ended in a 1-1 draw, Shelbourne taking the replay 0-1. Tragedy struck when my runners up medal was stolen from my hotel room after the game. On a return trip to Ireland to watch Rovers in the 1978 cup final a package was delivered to my hotel room with the medal inside. Even thieves admire genius.I also made 16 appearances for England, scoring 18 goals. Six of those goals came in the way of hat-tricks. I scored three against Belgium in May 1927 and then another three against Luxembourg 10 days later.My nickname "Dixie" was given to me by fans due to my dark complexion and curly black hair, which was, in their perception, similar to that of African-Americans in the Southern United States. I himself deeply disliked the moniker, preferring to be known as Bill.I died from heart failure in 1980 at Goodison Park, Everton's home ground, whilst I was watching a match against our closest rivals, Liverpool. Liverpool won the match 2-1, pricks. In 2001, a statue of myself was erected outside the Park End of the stadium carrying the inscription, "Footballer, Gentleman, Evertonian." In 2002 I became an Inaugural Inductee to the English Football Hall of Fame. In 2003, Littlewoods Football pools sponsored the ‘Dixie Dean Award’ for Everton Personality of the Year, at the Merseyside Sports Personality of the Year Awards. It was won by former Everton boss Howard Kendall.
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