WATCH: Know Your History... Dixie's 60

Everton had already clinched the league crown for the third time in their history when Arsenal came to Goodison Park on the last day of the 1927/28 campaign... yet there was unprecedented excitement ahead of the match.

Dixie Dean had plundered six goals in the Club's previous two outings to take his league total for the season to an incredible 57 - two short of the record set by Middlesbrough's George Camsell just 12 months earlier.

Dean, therefore, needed a hat-trick to achieve immortality and the crowd turned out willing him to get it. Typical of a player who would go on to net a staggering 383 times in 433 appearances for the Club, he wouldn't disappoint.

What made the Everton man's untouchable season all the more impressive was that less than two years earlier, following a motorcycle accident, Dean had been told he would never play football again.

Watch the latest Know Your History below or here to learn more about Dixie's 60, his fight back from the accident doctors said would end his career and why Dean is rightly revered as Everton's greatest ever player.

If you enjoy this feature, discover the story of how St. Domingo Football Club became Everton Football Club here.

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01:50 Mon 18 Jan 2021

KNOW YOUR HISTORY... DIXIE'S 60

How striker went from a motorcycle accident that nearly ended his career to goalscoring immortality.