Jimmy once said of the legendary manager Bill Nicholson, "it was a pleasure and a privilege to play for him" "We didn't always see eye to eye. We had a love/hate relationship. I loved the way I played and he hated it"
Heard him say “if you asked Spurs fans, they’d say I played my best football at Spurs. If you asked Chelsea fans, they’d say I played my best football at Chelsea. And if you asked West Ham fans, they’d agree with the Spurs and Chelsea fans”
RIP - aware of him through Saint & Greavsie from my childhood and then as I got older realised what a ridiculous scoring record he had. Amazing number of goals in a career
Just seen on sky that he did the qtr final draw for the 1992 rumbelows cup in Trump towers with president trump. I did not know that. “It’s some pad you have here” he said to trump at the conclusion 😂😂😂😂
Too young to have seen him play but his goalscoring record was insane. In his first senior season at Chelsea he scored 22 goals and he scored 30 goals or more 9 times in a season. Shearer and Henry combined managed that total 9 times between them!
Scored 44 in 57 games for England as well but the best stats of all are this on his wiki page:
"he made an impression at youth level, scoring 51 goals in the 1955–56 season and 122 goals in the 1956–57 season".
And watching back those old clips so good with either foot. I had forgotten that. Definitely a childhood hero, whichever team you supported just because he was a great great goalscorer.
Just looking at his stats, I hadn't realised how soon he finished his professional career. He was only 30 when he left Spurs, and 31 when he left West Ham when alcohol and lack of motivation ended his career prematurely
Despite that, his goal scoring stats are ridiculously good.
The greatest goal scorer ever to have played for England and a real character into the bargain, one of my big time heroes. Football has lost one of its favourite sons. RIP…..Jimmy…..RIP.
Played a lot of golf with Bobby Smith’s son who talks fondly of ‘Uncle Jimmy’s’ visits to their family home in the early 60s. Spoke very highly of Greaves as a person.
RIP Jimmy, so very sad news. I believe that he made his debut for Chelsea as a 17-year old at White Hart Lane and scored in a 1-1 draw. Also scored on all his debut's for Spurs and West Ham. Our greatest ever goalscorer. Does anyone know if he ever played against us at the Valley?
RIP Jimmy, so very sad news. I believe that he made his debut for Chelsea as a 17-year old at White Hart Lane and scored in a 1-1 draw. Also scored on all his debut's for Spurs and West Ham. Our greatest ever goalscorer. Does anyone know if he ever played against us at the Valley?
Think he also scored on his England and AC Milan debuts as well
I enjoyed reading his autobiography. As others have already said, that whilst he had his career before I was born the clips of his many goals show how fantastic he was and Saint and Greavsie was at a time (as Jimmy says in his book) when football was less serious. RIP.
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Just seemed to walk the ball into the net
RIP
RIP Jim.
RIP
Scored 44 in 57 games for England as well but the best stats of all are this on his wiki page:
"he made an impression at youth level, scoring 51 goals in the 1955–56 season and 122 goals in the 1956–57 season".
122 goals!!
Definitely a childhood hero, whichever team you supported just because he was a great great goalscorer.
His scoring record speaks for itself as to how good he was.
It’s a funny old game, as he said.
Thanks Jimmy football was made better because of you.
Heard Glen tell this story years ago, a great education to his young self, but to be fair he was smart enough to learn.
Despite that, his goal scoring stats are ridiculously good.
Football has lost one of its favourite sons.
RIP…..Jimmy…..RIP.
RIP, a true great.
I believe that he made his debut for Chelsea as a 17-year old at
White Hart Lane and scored in a 1-1 draw.
Also scored on all his debut's for Spurs and West Ham.
Our greatest ever goalscorer. Does anyone know if
he ever played against us at the Valley?
Worth recording on +1 or watching on the ITV hub, loads of clips of his goals.