Dixie - The Autobiography of Dixie McNeil: The Story of a Wrexham Legend

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Dixie - The Autobiography of Dixie McNeil: The Story of a Wrexham Legend

Dixie - The Autobiography of Dixie McNeil: The Story of a Wrexham Legend

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Solidly built and almost impossible to stop once into his stride Dixie McNeil had the natural goalscorers instinct.

At the end of the day as well with us being non-league, I’m sure the players will want to get to the third round proper and face a Premier League club. Being top goal scorer in the whole of the football league two seasons running is a fabulous thing; I still don’t know if anyone else has done it? Dixie was a prolific goalscorer throughout his career and was the top goalscorer in all four of the Football League divisions in two successive seasons (1974/75 and 1975/76). We've detected that you are using AdBlock Plus or some other adblocking software which is preventing the page from fully loading. With our high quality and fast digitizing process, we help newspaper archives in converting their physical prints into digital format.I didn't remember it was only one season, but I think he was a bit of a rebel so perhaps our manager couldn't handle him. Phil Parkinson is targeting a second league victory of 2024, as they welcome AFC Wimbledon to the STōK Cae Ras. In the third year of managing we were still the lowest paid club in the Football League and at the start of the 4th season, I decided to go to Coventry in First Division. The FA Cup is a competition engrained in the Club’s history, with the most famous victory coming against Arsenal in 1992. A last-minute leveller at home to minnows Blyth Spartans meant another trip up north and back to St James’ Park where he scored in a 2-1 win.

And with Wrexham's 2022/23 campaign kick-starting this weekend, McNeil expects to see another professional performance in the North East on Saturday. Wrexham managed four seasons in the second division and, after a slow start, McNeil proved again that he could score goals at that level, even well into his mid 30’s. He retired from professional football in 1983 but played on in the Welsh National League with Chirk AAA, and also made an appearance in the FA Cup in 1985, at the age of 38.It’s been 44 years since Wrexham last played Spartans in the competition, with goals from Graham Whittle and McNeil proving to be the difference in the replay. Then, from a re-taken corner, McNeil bundled in the equaliser and it was back to the North East for another replay.

Reserves/Youth: All reserve and youth competitions from age group U17 and above (including friendlies). Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too. We meet footballing celebrities too, such as Peter Shilton, Graham Taylor, George best, John Sillett and many more whom Dixie met. We assist them in setting their prints free for future generations to access and appreciate them and their historical value.After a spell as assistant manager at Coventry City, he worked in sales for a brewery and reported on Wrexham's games for local radio before becoming manager of Flint Town United and later Caernarfon Town and Cefn Druids.

He later had successful spells with Lincoln City and Hereford United, helping the latter to reach the dizzy heights of the Second Division. Wrexham’s memorable title-winning 1977/78 season included a fabulous FA Cup adventure to the quarter-finals in a remarkable run that was dominated by replays and McNeil’s scoring exploits. McNeil is very much Mr Wrexham, and the present stability of the club, now in community ownership after a period of great uncertainty, and ably guided by player-manager Andy Morrell, who has continued the current success on the field of the previous manager Dean Saunders, gives McNeil enormous pleasure and real hope that Wales’s oldest league club can once again regain its rightful status.Years later when I was granted a testimonial at Wrexham, he came and was the guest speaker at the evening dinner. Graham kept in touch after he went to Watford and Aston Villa and then being the England manager showed how good he was as a manager. He made his Football League debut for Exeter City in the 1966-67 season against Wrexham, a club he would later play for and manage. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). I obviously wanted to keep it as a memento of what we had done that season with promotion to the Second Division and reaching the Sixth Round of the Cup.



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