A lot of goals in a āpremiership seasonā but maybe you are going to mention Dixie Dean
Indeed. Thereās only one goalscoring record that matters in English league football. Dixie Dean 60 league goals on a season.
How close is Haaland now to the 60?
With Haaland toiling on 35 league goals to get to even two thirds of the Dixie Dean haul of 60 league goals, I see theyāre trying to create some makey-uppy records for him.
I was reading that Haaland on 51 goals in all competitions is just 12 off the Dixie Dean mark of 63 in all competitions. For Dixie Dean, outside of the league, there were a grand total of 2 games in other competitions, FA Cup 3rd and 4th round in which he scored 3 goals. For Citeh so far this season there have been 19 games so far in competitions other than the league. Thereāll be a minimum of 22 other non-league games and 23 if they make the European Cup final.
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Incredible scenes. Truly a special human, a special moment, a special club
Dixie Dean was a poxy cunt, to fuck with him. All hail our new overlord Erling Braut.
How many league games did Everton play that season?
He scored 60 in 39 league games
Ya but half the centrebacks be faced had trenchfoot.
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Dixie played in 39 of Evertonās 42 league games.
Anyone who takes records from that time in sport history seriously wouldnāt be the full shilling God bless them.
Hardly Erlingās fault Dixie wasnāt as robust as him.
Itās like when lads were saying Joe Canning was no good cos he couldnāt beat Nicky Rackards record of 7 goals in a championship match or something. Utterly pointless comparisons
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Thatās the fucking bedrock of tfk
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Joe Canning broke a record. For a period of time, he held the record as the highest scorer in the history of the All Ireland Hurling Championship back to its inception in 1887.
Erling Haaland is getting feted and guards of honour off the pitch for bringing up the tally of 35 goals in a league season. The record haul in a single season since the inception of the Football League in season 1888/89 is 60. Itās all in keeping really with the historical revisionism of his club Manchester City since they were taken over by a despotic human rights abusing oil money rogue State.
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Which is pointless as the structure Canning played under is a world apart from anything in the pre 1998 era.
So heās equalled it then?
Heās 25 shy of Dixie Deanās mark of 60.
At the time most teams were playing two defenders and 5 strikers.
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When Dixie Dean scored his record haul of 60 league goals in 1927/28, the record mark that he surpassed was 43. No other player in the 135 odd years of the football league has even scored 50 league goals in a season. There was someone I think just a few years later in the early 1930ās who scored 49 league goals in a season. It is a record that stands apart and stands the rest of time. Typical of modern day historical revisionism to try and come up with a makey-uppy record to put Haaland on a pedastel with Dixie Dean.