Jimmy greaves was 80 last week and BT broadcast an excellent documentary celebrating the event. He was the consummate goalscorer. Although he isn't England's leading scorer he was without doubt England's best. Rooney scored 53 in 107 games, Charlton 49 in 106 and Lineker 48 in 80. Greaves scored 44 goals in 57 games, but all the 44 were from open play, no penalties. It's a moot point but you could argue that his injury gave Geoff Hurst the chance to win us the world cup.
Daily Mail have a campaign going to get him recognised, which is a great idea....... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...campaign-Jimmy-Greaves-deserves-honoured.html
357 top flight goals, some record, and I can't see it being beaten. All scored before the "Premier League Era" so they obviously don't count.
Jimmy Greaves is my favourite all time player,I saw him as a boy at the old Bramall Lane. A funny man too but he has always said that the 1966 team were never fully honoured by the country or their skills utilised. Especially Sir Bobby Moore, even Harry Kane has been honoured.
Greaves is a legend. He deserves an honour. I'm not supporting anything the Daily Mail does though I'm afraid. Fascist lovely people should not be the people getting behind this campaign.
No argument about it to be fair, if he hadn’t got injured Hurst wouldn’t have played. Very odd how he’s always been not recognised fully for his achievements.
Used to love watching Jimmy play, when he got on a run towards goal he just seemed to flow in an effortless motion. He had a shot on him but largely seemed to stroke the ball into the net, footballing genius.
You say not recognised but I find he certainly is amongst my generation, I suppose it's down to there not being the same coverage now. Match of the day started in 1964 (the first show only had 20,000 viewers) and only became popular when shown in colour in 1969. Jimmy finished from first division football in 1971.
His best years as a player were a little before my time but I've seen enough to know that he deserves every accolade and honour bestowed on him. Saint and Greavsie wasn't before my time and that was brilliant.
Wonderful, wonderful player with a goal scoring record that few will ever match. Interesting thought (well, to me anyway): you couldn’t coach what Greavsie had. Would modern coaches have tried to get him to play in a particular way? Would modern managers not have picked him because he wouldn’t play their preferred style or tracked back? What would the spreadsheet have made of his stats (the important ones like how far a player has run in a game)? That’s quite a few thoughts, come to think of it.
Jimmy Greaves good goalscorer for England and Tottenham but when you start talking about goal ratios per game for England him being the best just think about our very own Tommy Taylor up to his death who had a better ratio of goals per game than are Tommy (and possibly still the best) if he had not come to that tragic end f**** me, can't say any more.
