One of the true, all time greats.
When you think of football you think of Jimmy Greaves.
I’m still seething at that time Eamon Dunphy got Greavsie on the short lived Dunphy Show on TV3 and sat him down beside Liam Griffin for five minutes, asking him one question - about hurling.
He had a very bad stroke in the last couple of years and had no quality of life so it’s probably a merciful release
RIP
A genius.
A brilliant goal scorer. He was the stuff of legend when I was growing up. Spent many a childhood Saturday watching himself and Ian St John on the box.
Well played Chairman Levy. It would be a lovely touch for Spurs to name a stand after Jimmy Greaves. He’s more than worthy of having the whole stadium named after him.
The GOAT
His lack of professionalism meant he was a joke figure in Italy
What happened there. 9 goals in 12 matches would suggest he was producing the goods.
I’ll try and post the chapter in John Foots book. It’s scathing of him and he was the reason that Italian clubs didn’t buy English players for years
Imagine what he’d have done if he tried.
Turned up drunk on the first day
Tactically not up to it
Smoked
Not disciplined
Etc
So he drank like fuck and scored 9 goals in 12 games … imagine if he was dry
Cue the footix being upset that someone isn’t in awe of an English footballer
A drunkard was too good for em. Walked all over em.
No, he was tacttically not up to it. Sort.of like ronaldo at his worst now, when he left Milan won the scudetto
The lure of joining Tottenham Hotspur got him out of Italy fairly quickly.
