Even in the closing stages of his glorious career Dixie Dean was box office, drawing crowds and causing a stir wherever he went - and in the most unusual circumstances. After a foot injury ended his spell at his final League club Notts County in 1938 he regained fitness and played for two more teams at a time when the world was on the brink of war. He received a call from across the Irish Sea with an offer to join Sligo Rovers in January 1939, having just turned 32. So he too