Dixie Dean is the player who defined the number 9 role, everything that is Everton walks the path that Dean put us on ever since he joined us in 1925 at the age of 18, he would go on to score 32 goals that season. Just 2 seasons later he would achieve one of the greatest feats in the history of Everton, the 60 goal season, a record that still stands today. In a world of behemoths, Dean stood hulking just as they did, but was so much more than a physical monster. Sound familiar?

83 years ago, Dixie Dean set a record for his longest streak of consecutively scoring in 9 games while playing at Goodison. When Romelu Lukaku shot a toe-poke past Heaton after Burnley traveled to Merseyside, he would match the record of the legendary Dean himself. I often refer to Lukaku as ‘free scoring’ because that’s precisely what he is, although Dixie Dean defines the word, and set his personal streak in an era of goals galore. Lukaku currently sits at the top of the scoring charts on 24 with Harry Kane sitting in 2nd place with 20 goals.

The number 9 of all number 9’s scored in 9 consecutive home games. Can our current number 10 make it 10?

Our next home game is against a recently defeated Chelsea. Manchester United were awarded a lucky goal after a powerful shot from Herrera deflected into the back of Begovic’s net, then Rashford would finish the job resulting in a rare 2-0 loss for the League leaders. Courtois will likely be back for when Chelsea travel to Goodison on the 30th of April, but if United can take 3 points from them then logically, enjoying our current home form, Everton can too. The question is “can Lukaku score?”. Usually I’d say no, but our home form is truly something to behold, in 2017 our goal difference at Goodison is 23+ with 5 clean sheets. I’m going to trust in the influence Goodison has been having recently, and guess that Lukaku will get his goal, etching his name in the Everton history books. To match a Big Dunc record is one thing, to surpass a Dixie Dean record is something else entirely.

Up the Ev.