Dixie Dean

[laughs]

Dixie Dean in 1927, and Harry Kane three times, 2019, '21, and now in 2026.

Very special.

So wait, wait, come on.

Jamie [laughing] yeah, sh- yeah, Banks.

[laughing] Dixie Dean, and WG, Fatty Foulke, and WG Grace.

[laughing]

Um, Paul Robinson, Jamie Carragher, Rio Ferdinand, John Terry, Gary Neville, Michael Carrick, Scott Parker, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole, Wayne Rooney, and Peter Crouch.

We get def- we get beaten at Chelsea, I think, in the January, and the board, um, [lips smack] transfer lists him for 250 quid.

And Everton who were the big team at the time, this is the team with Dixie Dean, they're winning leagues and cups and we're in the doldrums kind of thing.

Uh, they put in a cheeky bid for him, and the Kop's up in arms, and there was a big campaign to the Echo letters page, Echo letters page.

I mean, that, the Echo letters page, that was it before, before Twitter.

So I kind of, for those teams that would have won titles that didn't, the benefit that they get is they get a a more level playing field one of the big competitors removed for the next few years to try and make up for some of that so I don't know that's what I look at doing

Everton the four guys again when Dixie Dean's near a 100 year record gets smashed by Harlan he gets like 120 goals in League 2 or something like that you've

got the AFL finance restrictions haven't you so you know it's not as easy as I mean it would be a hell of a perish you pay them wouldn't it you know but it's difficult and they can't be just expelled from the Premier League can't they if they can vote The Premier League clubs just can vote to expel them.

Where

And the board decided to transfer list him.

250 quid and Everton who then are the great team the Dixie Dean team of the 30s you know they put a cheeky bidding for him Liverpool fans went mad the Kop various Kopites bombarded the Echo with letters you know a big campaign so they were even organised then and there's one letter where some fella goes because the old Rosen the pseudonyms then but he went to him I don't care The old man, spelt O-W-L-D, the old man could go out there on a crutch and he'd still be the best goalie in the world for me.

Sell him at your pedal.

And he took him off the transfer list.

I remember.

And Dixie Dean, of course, got a 60-yard goal season for Everton, the highest number of goals in the top flight season in English football ever.

That is

right.

Cruyff did it in 70, 80, refused to go to Argentina.

You know, protests in the Olympics with, you know, the Black Panther symbols, the 1938 Olympics in Germany, Dixie Dean refusing to acknowledge a certain German when he went over there as well.

It will always be political.

It always has been political and it always will be political.

Might be a full-arm cast next week.

Dixie Deans.

Dixie Dean.

Correct.

Oh, point each.

Dixie Dean.

Very good.

Well done.