Dixie was more interested in quantity than quality throughout his career and he plied his trade with the single minded focus that all great goalscorers possess. I’ve got to say everything at the moment is hunky-dory and everybody has the same ambition of getting promoted. He himself later entered management, spending five seasons at the helm with Wrexham, before plying his trade in the League of Wales with Flint Town United, Caernarfon Town and NEWI Cefn Druids. Years later when I was granted a testimonial at Wrexham, he came and was the guest speaker at the evening dinner. Signing from Leicester City in 1966, he scored eleven times in 31 league games for Exeter before continuing to score on a regular basis for Northampton, Lincoln, Hereford and Wrexham.

McNeil became Wrexham manager in 1985 winning the Welsh Cup and progressing to the European Cup Winners' Cup in his first season. There were also a couple of brief, though praiseworthy, excursions into Europe and McNeil managed to score in the narrow defeats against NK Rijeka and FC Magdeburg. Without setting the world on fire, as few do at Exeter, McNeil made a solid start with the Grecians and top scored for the club with 11 goals from 31 games. Following Hereford's relegation at the end of the 1976-77 season, McNeil joined Wrexham and was part of their greatest success as a club when they too graced the Second Division for four seasons, from 1978 until 1982.With our high quality and fast digitizing process, we help newspaper archives in converting their physical prints into digital format. Unfortunately for McNeil and his teammates a certain George Best scored six at the other end in an 8-2 United victory. The FA Cup continued to offer highlights and Dixie scared several more first division defences before he was through. SEE the BACKSIDE OF the PHOTO - many times the image for sale will present stamps, dates, and other publication details - these marks attest to and increase the value of the press photos.

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).He was awarded a testimonial by Wrexham, against Kevin Keegan's Premier League side, Newcastle United in 1994. 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. In front of over 42,000 people Dixie McNeil scored a magnificent goal to put Wrexham two up on the way to a 2-1 win and a quarter final tie at home to Arsenal. The supporters have come back in droves to watch the games; the players are doing a brilliant job on the pitch and the manager is thriving. John Sillet was a great maanager but would come down on you if he felt it was the right thing to do.