Beethoven, Shakespeare and Rembrandt.
That is the ‘supremely great’ company the legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly deemed worthy of the former Everton striker William Ralph ‘Dixie’ Dean. Yet, Erling Haaland is vying for a place on the list after an explosive debut campaign in England. The Norwegian prodigy has become the first player since Dean to score more than half a century of goals for an English top-flight club in a single season.
However, Manchester City’s number nine still has some way to go to match English football’s original number nine – quite literally; Dean wore the…
