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Lee Michael Dixon (born 17 March 1964) is an English retired professional
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and pundit who played as a
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for Arsenal. Dixon was also capped 22 times for
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. A childhood Manchester City fan, Dixon began his footballing career as a youth at
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, making his professional debut for them in 1982. From there he played for Chester City and Bury before joining Stoke City in 1986 for a fee of £50,000. He instantly impressed at Stoke and forged a fine defensive partnership with
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. The pair's potential and performances attracted the attention of Arsenal and in January 1988 they both joined the "Gunners" for a combined fee of £765,000. The following season, as Dixon cemented his place in the team, Arsenal won their first league title in eighteen years in a dramatic final game of the season. A defensive mainstay in a successful Arsenal team until his retirement in 2002, Dixon's tenure at Arsenal saw him collect four league championship medals, three
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winner's medals and a
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medal. He was named in the PFA Team of the Year twice, for the seasons 1989–90 and 1990–91. His retirement came at the end of Arsenal's domestic double-winning 2001–02 season, their second in his time at the club. At the time of his retirement, he had played at 91 out of the 92 Football League grounds – everyone except Fulham's
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. Since his playing retirement, Dixon has worked as a football pundit and columnist. He began his television career working for the
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, primarily on their ''
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'' and ''
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'' programmes, then moved to
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for
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's Premier League coverage in the USA. He has also done charitable work, joining
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in a sponsored bike ride for
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which raised over £986,000 for the charity.


Club career


Early career

Born in
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, son of former Manchester City goalkeeper Roy Dixon, Lee was a boyhood Manchester City supporter. He began his professional playing career in the lower divisions. On leaving school in 1980, he joined
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as an apprentice in 1980, turning professional in 1982, then signed for Chester City (where he experienced finishing bottom of the whole Football League in 1983–84), Bury and later Stoke City. At the
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Dixon made a fine impression with some fine performances from right back as he played in 50 matches in 1986–87 scoring three goals. In 1987–88 Dixon made 38 appearances scoring twice. He joined First Division Arsenal in January 1988 for a fee of £375,000 and was later joined at Highbury by Stoke teammate
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.


Arsenal

On 29 January 1988
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bought Dixon from Stoke City following the departure of England right back,
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, to Manchester United. It took a while for Dixon to be given a first team role at
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. With England international
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at left back, the equally left-sided
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had been a guarded success in the unfamiliar right back role, though Dixon did make his debut against
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on 13 February 1988. This was the first time that Dixon had played in the First Division. He played six times in total before the season ended. Dixon was cup-tied in his first season which limited his appearances, and also meant he was unable to take part in the 1988 League Cup Final. In the new season, Winterburn moved across to left back, allowing Dixon to take over the No.2 shirt, which he duly did for well over ten years. Displaced Sansom left Arsenal the following winter. Dixon later wrote in his column in ''
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'' of the defence that he played in at Arsenal, "I was fortunate to play in an Arsenal back line that earned itself a reputation as being OK. I'm not trying to be overly modest in saying that, as individuals, we weren't the best players in the world. But certainly, all my weaknesses were compensated for by Tony Adams, Nigel Winterburn, Martin Keown, and Steve Bould, and vice versa. If one of us wasn't playing well, the others picked up the slack." Dixon and Winterburn made the full back positions their own for the next decade or so, while captain
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and the long-serving
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operated in the middle. Later in 1988 they were joined by
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who, like Dixon before him, had been spotted by Graham playing for Stoke City. These five defenders, often playing as a back five together (rather than the conventional back four) were the linchpin of an Arsenal side who became serious challengers for the First Division title the 1988–89 season, an honour which they had not won since 1971 but had looked more and more like winning since Graham's appointment as Arsenal manager in May 1986. Dixon was a marauding right back, ever willing to support his winger
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and his attacking skills were still noted even though his main job (and the main priority of the side as a whole) was to defend. He also had a short spell during this period as the club's penalty taker. Arsenal took the chase for the League championship to the last day of the season when they faced
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at
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. With Arsenal needing to win by two goals, the game stood at 1–0 as the clock showed the 90 minutes were up. Dixon received a ball in his own half and looked to mount a final attack. Spotting the run of centre forward Alan Smith towards the right channel, Dixon delivered a long ball on to his chest. Smith's run had forced a Liverpool defender across with him and Arsenal midfielder Michael Thomas made a charge into the gap, took Smith's sideways pass in his stride and slipped the ball past
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. There was barely time for Liverpool to restart and Arsenal took the title, the first of many honours Dixon would win. Arsenal struggled to hold on to the title the following year (and were unable to take part in the European Cup because the ban on English clubs after Heysel was still ongoing). In the 1990–91 season, Arsenal's defence (now with
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playing behind them in goal) grew even meaner, with just one defeat all season as they won the League championship again. After the 1992 summer, a fit-again Dixon was also defending the League title within the familiar Arsenal defence. With O'Leary's retirement imminent, Graham had provided extra cover in the centre of defence by signing
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from Everton – ironically the player who'd ended up playing at right back in Euro 92 after both Dixon and Stevens became unavailable. O'Leary ended up in Dixon's place at right back for the 1993
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final against
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– Dixon was suspended, having been sent off in Arsenal's FA Cup semi-final victory over Spurs. Arsenal won 2–1. Dixon was back when the sides met again for the
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final which Arsenal won by the same scoreline in a replay, after the initial game had ended in a 1–1 draw. In 1994, Dixon won a European medal to complement his domestic collection as Dixon, Winterburn, Bould and Adams suppressed the efforts of
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,
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and Faustino Asprilla of Italian side
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. Arsenal scored an early goal in the European Cup Winners Cup final in
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and this was enough, winning 1–0. Dixon was again in his No.2 shirt as Arsenal slumped domestically in 1995 but reached the final of the Cup Winners Cup again. Though the defence in Paris was breached by
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, Arsenal equalised and took the game to extra time. A lob from 40 yards in the final minute from
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(an ex- Spurs player) over
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prised the trophy from the Gunners. On 1 October 1996 Arsène Wenger arrived at Highbury and started to introduce lifestyle policies to the Arsenal squad, changing their outlook, self-awareness and
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. Wenger later admitted that he expected to replace each defender he inherited fairly quickly, but just as quickly realised he didn't need to. Dixon and his defensive colleagues recognised Wenger for giving them extra years at the helm of the game. Arsenal won the second "double" of the club's history in 1998 and Dixon received a testimonial the following year as he entered his tenth full season at Arsenal. Dixon played in a
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campaign in 2000 which saw Arsenal reach the final in the same Copenhagen stadium where they had won the Cup Winners Cup six years earlier. This time they were beaten on penalties by
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of
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. Earlier in that season he had missed a penalty in a shootout as Arsenal crashed out of the 1999/2000 FA Cup to
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. The following year Arsenal reached the FA Cup final but lost 2–1 to Liverpool at the Millennium Stadium in
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– the 37-year-old Dixon being outpaced by the 21-year-old
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for the winning goal. Dixon played on for one more season helping Arsenal to win another historic "double", the third in the club's history and second under manager Arsène Wenger, clinching the league title over rivals Manchester United at their home ground Old Trafford. This made him one of the few men to have won league titles in three different decades (1980s, 1990s and 2000s). Dixon retired from playing after winning that double in 2002 at the age of 38, with Adams quitting at the same time. Only Seaman and Keown then remained at the club from the defensive group Dixon had become associated with at Arsenal (after O'Leary's retirement in 1993, Bould had been the next to go in 1999 and then Winterburn followed him out of Highbury a year later). Dixon made 458 appearances in the League, scoring 25 goals.


International career

Dixon made his
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début in April 1990 in a
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warm-up game against
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. He played well, but there was little hope of him being in the squad for the
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as he was at least third in the pecking order behind Gary Stevens and Paul Parker. Only injury to one of these two would have opened a door for Dixon to go to Italy and that didn't happen as the pair stayed fully fit for the length of the tournament. After the World Cup, new manager
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instantly replaced Stevens and Parker with Dixon, who scored a goal at
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in his sixth international in an important
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qualifier against the
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. The game ended 1–1. By the end of 1991, Dixon had played in eleven internationals, including all of the Euro 92 qualifiers, through which England qualified for the finals in Sweden. As the finals approached, Dixon suffered an injury, allowing Stevens a route back into the side as the deadline for squad announcement approached. Taylor duly named Dixon instead of Stevens in his provisional squad, but ultimately neither went to the tournament. Dixon pulled out through an injury suffered in an accident at home so Stevens was recalled, only for the Rangers full back also to withdraw through injury. England ended up with no recognised right back in their squad and didn't get past the group stages. 1993 did not go well internationally, with England failing to qualify for the
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in the United States. Dixon's 21st cap, in a 7–1 win over
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in the final qualifier (a result which was immaterial) seemed to be his last as Taylor's successors
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and Glenn Hoddle did not select Dixon. In late January 1999, caretaker England manager
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recalled Dixon to the England squad more than five years after his last appearance, and he took to the field on 10 February in a 2–0 defeat by
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. His international career ended with 22 caps in total but he did not play in a major tournament.


Media career

He also worked as a regular pundit for the
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...
on ''
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'' as well as appearing on '' Score'', and ''
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'' before leaving the BBC to join
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for the '' Premier League on NBC Sports'', working alongside
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(until summer 2022) and
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(since summer 2022). He has also contributed to the network's ''Premier League Download'' program. In 2018, he co-commentated
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matches in the video game by
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, ''
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'' alongside Derek Rae. This partnership continued in the 2019 game, ''
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'' with inclusion of him also commentating some 'default' games (kick off, tournament, career and Ultimate Team modes) alongside Derek Rae once again as well in ''
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''. However, he is replaced by Stewart Robson in ''
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''.


Personal life

In retirement, Dixon has concentrated on several business interests including the Riverside Brasserie in
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, originally with his friend
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. In 2010, he became "completely hooked" on cycling, and goes riding two or three times a week, after
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persuaded him to take part in the 'Dallaglio Cycle Slam' during the Six Nations Championship in February that year, raising money for
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. They raised over £986,000 for the charity.


Career statistics


Club

:a.  The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the FA Community Shield,
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,
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,
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,
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and
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.


International


Honours

Arsenal * Football League First Division: 1988–89,
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*
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: 1997–98, 2001–02 *
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:
1992–93 Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 '' Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since t ...
, 1997–98, 2001–02 * FA Charity Shield:
1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...
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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
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European Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The cup was, chronologically, the second seasonal inter-European club competition organised by UEFA. The tournam ...
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