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Title: There’s Only One Dixie Deans (the Autobiography)
Author: Dixie Deans with Ken McNab
Published: 15 Sep 2011
Player Homepage: John “Dixie” Deans
Synopsis
Dixie Deans is a true Celtic football club legend. Between 1971 and 1976, he scored 132 goals in 184 games – a tally that earned him a place in the pantheon of greats to have worn the famous green and white hoops – and was part of the great Celtic team that swept to nine consecutive Scottish league titles and dominated a golden era for our national game.
Dixie cemented his status in football folklore by becoming the first Scottish player to hit hat-tricks in two cup finals, but he is remembered just as much for the special bond he struck with the fans – ties that remain as strong today, exactly 40 years after he first signed for Celtic from Motherwell.
Now Dixie, a member of the Celtic Hall of Fame, opens his scrapbook of memories on a lifetime of adventures in the beautiful game of football. From the struggle of growing up in a one-parent family to losing his beloved mother just as his career was starting to blossom, to playing under the legendary Jock Stein, Dixie recalls the tumultuous days of a roller-coaster career at the very pinnacle of Scottish football. He lifts the lid on the untold story behind his signing for Celtic, the truth about him and Rangers, his mercurial relationship with Stein and his unique ‘brotherly’ pact with fellow Celtic icon Jimmy Johnstone.
He also pulls no punches over the war with the SFA that saw him branded Public Enemy No1, what life was like playing for a Grand Old Team that included the likes of Dalglish, Macari, McNeill and Connolly and how his Scotland hopes ended in tatters. Also revealed for the first time is the devastating low he experienced after missing the penalty against Inter Milan in 1972 that wrecked Celtic’s European dream – and the amazing redemption of hitting a hat-trick in the Scottish Cup Final just 17 days later.
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Product Details
- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Birlinn (15 Sep 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1780270283
- ISBN-13: 978-1780270289
