Scouser2 Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 Sad news and he has in recent years has not had the best of health, was one of the best goal scorers around in his day and for those of a certain age (pre SKY) growing up watching his show with Ian St John was very entertaining and must see TV if you liked football ### World Cup-winning England striker and Tottenham's record goalscorer Jimmy Greaves has died at the age of 81. Greaves began his career with Chelsea before spells at AC Milan, Spurs and West Ham. He scored 269 goals in 379 games for Tottenham and holds the record for the most goals in a season for Spurs with 37 in 1962-63. A member of the World Cup-winning squad in 1966, Greaves scored 44 goals in 57 games for England. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skygod Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 Appropriate that Chelsea are playing Tottenham today. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killie71 Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 10 minutes ago, Scouser2 said: Sad news and he has in recent years has not had the best of health, was one of the best goal scorers around in his day and for those of a certain age (pre SKY) growing up watching his show with Ian St John was very entertaining and must see TV if you liked football ### World Cup-winning England striker and Tottenham's record goalscorer Jimmy Greaves has died at the age of 81. Greaves began his career with Chelsea before spells at AC Milan, Spurs and West Ham. He scored 269 goals in 379 games for Tottenham and holds the record for the most goals in a season for Spurs with 37 in 1962-63. A member of the World Cup-winning squad in 1966, Greaves scored 44 goals in 57 games for England. RIP. His goal stats are phenomenal. He must have been some striker. Saint & Greavsie was compulsory viewing, back in the day. From memory, it consisted of 30 minutes of Ian St John in fits of laughter at JG’s patter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangodog Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 Only received an MBE this year along with Ron Flowers. That was probably only because they knew he wouldn't last much longer. When you think of some of the useless plonkers that were honoured before him. Stupid system. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killie71 Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 Without checking, there must be a story behind his short lived AC Milan career. 9 goals in 12 games. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasg Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 2 minutes ago, Killie71 said: Without checking, there must be a story behind his short lived AC Milan career. 9 goals in 12 games. He didn’t settle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killie1961 Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 2 hours ago, Jasg said: He didn’t settle RIP Jimmy what a player and character. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fankle Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 One of the best finishers ever to play the sport... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAG Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 4 hours ago, Killie71 said: Without checking, there must be a story behind his short lived AC Milan career. 9 goals in 12 games. Incredible goal record abroad. You have to wonder how much getting injured for the WC final affected his legacy in football. Seems much more ordinary English players of his generation were lauded for a single match, despite being nowhere near as good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skygod Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 6 hours ago, Jasg said: He didn’t settle I have it at the back of my mind that Chelsea wouldn’t sell him to Spurs so he went via Milan. Could be wrong but it rings a bell. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasg Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 24 minutes ago, skygod said: I have it at the back of my mind that Chelsea wouldn’t sell him to Spurs so he went via Milan. Could be wrong but it rings a bell. He had 2nd thoughts after he signed for Milan but the contract was signed so they made him honour it.Chelsea and Spurs both tried to sign him but he thought he had more chance of success at Spurs.Fee was set at 99,999 so he wasn’t the first 100,000 player,it’s all in his book including getting a yellow for kicking a player who spat on him while playing for milan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fankle Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 On 9/19/2021 at 3:58 PM, RAG said: Seems much more ordinary English players of his generation were lauded for a single match, despite being nowhere near as good. I watched a recent documentary about the 66 World Cup team. When Alf Ramsay took over he apparently informed the players that only three of them were world class, Jimmy Greaves, Bobby Charlton and Ray Wilson. The rest of the team's objective was to get the ball to them as much as possible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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