A selection of goals scored by the great Jimmy Greaves. Was he England's greatest? You decide! VHS tape converted and edited by www.old-to-new.co.uk. Produced with CyberLink PowerDirector
Jimmy Greaves was way ahead of his time. And I would say England's best ever. He played in a era that the game was a true mans game. I have to say what a player. Incredible skill.
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He had it all, superb skill, dribble past opponents, shoot with either foot, good header for a shortish guy too. Phenomenal strike rate. Very similar player to Gerd Muller.
Jimmy made goal scoring look easy . the game is played differently now and there is no point comparing footballers from different eras. He was and always will remain my idol . for me that is enough praise for my hero
Very rare these days, a player who could use both feet. Jimmy is a legend, and thats from a Gooner. I still think his England record is better than that of Wayne of Rooney . Wonder haw many Jim would have scored if he had played 100 for England
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Rooney is not even in the same class as Jimmy Greaves. The only other English striker who came close was Gary Lineker.
You are a true football supporter for saying that and I could say something similar about some of your Club's players.........Denis the Menace comes to mind along with little George Armstrong........And I am a Totts Supporter.......RIP Jimmy Greaves
He truly was 2 footed, comfortable on the ball and good in the air, I used to think he only scored tap ins but looking at these old clips, he really was the complete striker and amazing that Ramsay didn't pick him for the 66 WC final, what a risk that was, luckily it paid off!
Phenomenal striker. Pity there's not a few more of his Chelsea goals here. Especially brilliant in his final season with us. 41 in 40 league games, 43 goals in 43 games all comps, scored three or more in six matches including 5 past reigning champs Wolves. Gave Billy Wright nightmares in a few games.
As a kid in the 1960s I saw greaves play, both live and on tv. What people forget or dont know is the fact that he was very ill with hepatitis in 1965 and was never the same player after that. His lacklustre show in the 1966 world cup was due to the fact that he had lost that magic pace and dribbling ability that you speak of. Still great after and he recovered his goal scoring touch but became less mobile. Pre 1965 illness he was on another planet as a goal scoring forward.
What!? are you a kid.... Football back then was miles ahead football has gone to pieces and lost true footballers and legends of the game since the early 2000's. As soon as athletes started being picked over footballers and players taking into youth systems and trained there individual talents out of them, the game has died. With the balls the used back then the pitches they played on and the tackles they took and made, messi wouldn't stand a chance end of.
Yes, I remember the goal against Newcastle when he left (Ollie Burton) all over the place. I was in the Paxton Road end (with the visitors) for the game against Leicester when he left Malcolm Manley, Graham Cross, Brian Potts, David Nish & Peter Shilton helpless. Greavesie was the best striker, and possibly the best footballer, ever I reckon. Our David Gibson (Leicester) said he was the best opponent he had ever faced.
Jimmy was my idol at school I used to have his name written all over my satchel I got a load of hassle being the only Spurs fan in a lancashire school I rmember the Monday after spurs gave Burnley a real beating. I couldnt show my delight I had a terrible day being bullied by a few Burnley fans . happy memories !
Thanks for the memories. Way out on his own in those days. Scored the best goal I've ever seen, taking the ball at the halfway line, beating 5 defenders before slotting home. Can't remember who the game was against but stuck in my mind for the last 50 years.
+john wells Hello John......I was at that game at WHL and was my first ever pro match V Newcastle 1969 on a sandy pitch and still remember THAT goal......such class and a cool head. Keeper was Iam Mcfaul and 2 of the defenders were Ollie Burton and Bobby Moncur. BEST goalscorer I have EVER seen and would be worth £200 million and getting wages of £1 million a week.......Rooney not fit to lace his boots. Chris (Arsenal fan)
Chris, Great to read your comments. Agree entirely what you say about Rooney (and quite a few others fall into the same category) I'm also now an Arsenal fan and watch the games from far away in Thailand. I wish Wenger would do the right thing next month to shore up a small squad to give us a fighting chance for the title this season.
As a young Spurs fan, initially I was unhappy as he replaced Les Allen from the double team. Soon changed my mind he was simply superb, and more skillful than many gave him credit for. Simply the best.
2.36 and 2.44 instant control as he scores. How many times do you see today where modern players take too long to control the ball and lose out, cant see many today could score goals like those two goals. In a goalie to beat situation Jimmy always seemed to score, unlike many then and now who hit the goalie or miss altogether !!
a great point littlebigbrain , well said , he always knew where the net was, I seemed to remember reading he had a fantastic success in the number of penalties he converted in his career too showing how cool he was under pressure.
Jimmy Greaves was a dribbler, like Messi, but played in an era where positional play was much less sophisticated. Nowadays you'd try to get him on the ball as much as possible - as a number 10 maybe - because he was a player who could make things happen, could create something out of nothing with close control and pace. In the 60's he was often seen as a luxury and in the WC even lost out to a workhorse like Roger Hunt. Probably born in the wrong era is my lasting impression.
Yes Ashley Gaden i agree. Look at football now compared to even euro 96 and theres a huge gulf in class. Duncan Edwards and Bobby Charlton would be worth 150m each. Greaves the same. Sad how the talent has dried up. Society has gone soft never get back to how it was.
Talent has dried up with the working class kids not kicking balls together so much, being on computers, and the playing fields sold off to property developers
I remember a couple of years or so some internet poll about who was England's greatest ever striker. Jimmy wasn't in the top ten, which probably says something about the age of the voters. The stats don't lie - they are phenomenal. If a striker's job is to put the ball in the net, Jimmy was the greatest English striker of all time - Lineker, Owen, Shearer don't even come close. And as for Bobby Charlton........
Superlucas - He did play the first three games but was injured for the quarter final and semi final against Argentina and Portugal. He was fit for selection for the final, but Alf Ramsey preferred to retain Geoff Hurst, who had shown up well as Jimmy's replacement, scoring against Argentina. In truth, he was not at his very best at the time, having suffered a serious illness earlier in the year (I think it was hepatitis), and he probably never did reach quite the heights he had in the early 60s.
I heard Jimmy himself say he was never the same after hepatitis..not sure when it was.I believe he wasn't in great form in the group stages of the 66WC.Hurst himself modestly said that Greaves had more skill.
I noticed your Eric Clapton video - I was lucky enough to meet Eric aa few times way back in the early 80s in a pub near his house.They say never meet your heroes but he was always polite - I never let on I knew who he was instead recall talking about WBA - his favourite football team. A few years later ,I was queuing up for Mark Knopflers autograph after a gig at Guildford Civic Hall before Dire Straits were huge.Clapton walks out and says Hello mate - how are you -- made my day - the look on a friend's face was priceless.
@@marillion1 Way to go when chatting to celebs. Talk about things they're really interested in (the trick of course is to find out what those are). They've heard all the compliments thousands of times before, and having to respond to them must get incredibly tedious.
1963 as a 13 year old, went on to become a season ticket holder thru the 80/90s & now live in S Devon so very rarely go to matches but we have a strong Spurs supporters "shelf" at our local pub. Did you know Steve Perryman lives nearby, recovering from heart probs
Jimmy Greaves was the old school , never in trouble with the referees, after scoring wonder goals, just a shake of the hand. If it was one to one with a goalie to beat he was so cool, a goal every time. Many of his goals were placed , just as if he passed into the net, never has there been a more clinical or cool finisher in english foootball. I have seen greaves ( pre illness ) dribble ball beating many defenders with amazing pace, body swerves, run around the keeper at the end, so casual
Yes true and after research I found out that he also got sent off in the 1963 European cup winners cup semi final against OFK for attempting to punch a centre half who had been roughed up by Bobby Smith and picked on Jimmy as he was a smaller target !! Probably frustration led to his send off when playing for Barnet, for arguing with the Referee about a free kick I think ?
Beats me how Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic could have played such a hard match in such intensive heat, they must have been well knackered afterwards !! Hope you are keeping ok, my jobs are nearly finished so hopefully I can soon have a rest from my toils !!
114 F, wow !! Thats around 45 degrees centigrade...too hot !! It reached about 33 degrees centigrade ( thats about 90 F ) on the bbc weather reports in some parts of Uk in the recent hot spell. Of course it was hotter than that in some places, my back garden for a start reached 40 degrees ( its south facing and gets very hot there ) Also when Andy Murray played his final at wimbledon, it was reported to be at some of the times that afternoon reaching 50 degrees in the centre court area !!
I wish I could go back in time and watch the England matches that Jimmy was fantastic in like when we beat Scotland 9-3 in 1961, he scored three goals and so many other games as well of course. without a doubt he is England's best striker ever. With him and Bobby Charlton in the England team the two were invincible; and also you had Gordon Banks, Bobby Moore and Jack Charlton in the side as well, who were equally good at their part of the game.
England's best ever striker closely followed by Gary Lineker. Its a shame back then the pitches were so bad and the TV quality so poor. Many of his most spectacular goals were not included. I remember one in a World Cup qualifier when he ghosted past 4 or 5 defenders before scoring.
344 goals in 478 appearances for Chelsea and Spurs is Messi like constitency before goal. It is phenomenal. He is not so much underrated as non rated yet was without argument the finest British post war striker. it is weird.
The guy would have scored even more goal today as the offside rule is easier today than in the 50s and 60s. In his day you had to have two players between you and the goal line and not as it is today being level with the 2nd last player. The number of goals that were chalked off because he was level with the 2nd last player must have been between 50 and a 100 goals on top of the 357 first division goals he scored which is still the record and a 100 more than Shearer.
Good to hear from you Legend. By the way, it'd be great if someone put up a definitive 10 - 15 minute film... I'll be that 80 - 100 of Greavsie's goals are gathering rust in various places.
Well I do other things in my life other than writing on youtube jimmy greaves threads !! Write a few comments on classical music on youtube, alsodoing all my jobs on my house decorating, gardening etc also have a girlfriend who has a house that needs forever repairing and redecorating, like many women she should have married an all round builder and decorator !! Hope you are keeping well, very hot in UK at the moment !!
My dad told me if you wouldhave suggested ayear b4 that greaves would not play in 66 final Hed ave got an extra day off for mourning, I dont think ive ever heard him bitch about it, he truly his bonafide knight of the lane,
How could such temples of football have such muddy penalty areAs. Anyway I heard Jimmy had a stroke. I hope he has a full recovery and even if not I hope he has a good quality of life left on this earth.
I should imagine that jimmy's second sending off for Barnet was a lot down to frustration at getting older and more injury prone and also to his inborn problems of liking a bit too much to drink. Jimmy was never a dirty player who went out to hurt people. When you get older and your body cant do what it did so easily when you where younger, it does make you get wound up, as I fully know myself ! I notice on your channel that you like Brian Clough, great Character wasn't he !!
He played in the first 3 matches but got injured and when it came to the final and he was fit Ramsey decided to stick with Hurst. So he did play but not in the knockout stages or the final..
Well hepatitis can be caused by many things of which some I would not wish to mention, just say that jimmy got it in 1965 and he admits himself that it knocked the stuffing out of him and he lost a yard of pace that he never got back, what caused him to catch it ...who knows ? I believe I heard that Gary linneker also got it at some stage in his career, have to check up on that one ?
These three were better players than either Muller, Greaves or Romario (who has grand ideas of himself). But my point is that as well as a goalscorer par excellence, Jimmy was far more skillful than the average Lineker-esque goal hanger.
Yes he was a self confessed alcoholic as were many footballers round this time and if they were not then there were near to it as football had a drinking culture round it at that time as did many working class people, we all spent a lot more time in pubs, drinking and smoking etc. The breathalizer and smoking bans in pubs etc have changed habits for average people a lot, no pubs with meals in those days, lucky to get a packet of crisps ! Anyway, jimmy's liking for alcohol did him no favours !
I was born well after Greaves time but I have to say that I find all my inspiration from the great players of the 60s-70s not the overpaid wannabe gangsters and it soulless globalised market place of todays footballers.
Having said that Legend, I have only seen him over 90 mins once... Scotland '67... he was AWFUL... Bobby Charlton on the other hand was everywhere... put me in mind of Mazzola jnr for Italy... same graceful dribbling. Jimmy was terrible in that game. Mind you, the real stars were the Celtic / Rangers contingent, slim Jim would've been annonymous had England 11 fit men.
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Jimmy was my boyhood idol. Quite simply the greatest goalscorer England has ever seen. He was a genius. If he was playing today he'd be priceless.
So cool, almost nonchalant, in front of goal. A true master of his craft.
Jimmy Greaves was way ahead of his time. And I would say England's best ever. He played in a era that the game was a true mans game. I have to say what a player. Incredible skill.
He had it all, superb skill, dribble past opponents, shoot with either foot, good header for a shortish guy too. Phenomenal strike rate. Very similar player to Gerd Muller.
Jimmy made goal scoring look easy . the game is played differently now and there is no point comparing footballers from different eras. He was and always will remain my idol . for me that is enough praise for my hero
Very rare these days, a player who could use both feet. Jimmy is a legend, and thats from a Gooner. I still think his England record is better than that of Wayne of Rooney . Wonder haw many Jim would have scored if he had played 100 for England
Rooney is not even in the same class as Jimmy Greaves. The only other English striker who came close was Gary Lineker.
You are a true football supporter for saying that and I could say something similar about some of your Club's players.........Denis the Menace comes to mind along with little George Armstrong........And I am a Totts Supporter.......RIP Jimmy Greaves
He truly was 2 footed, comfortable on the ball and good in the air, I used to think he only scored tap ins but looking at these old clips, he really was the complete striker and amazing that Ramsay didn't pick him for the 66 WC final, what a risk that was, luckily it paid off!
Simply the greats my hero as a boy and still my hero god bless you Jimmy RIP
first saw in 63 as a 13 year old & I've never seen a better striker than Greavsie, best ever for me
Absolutely top lad! Have him in my all time Britain XI...
Phenomenal striker. Pity there's not a few more of his Chelsea goals here. Especially brilliant in his final season with us. 41 in 40 league games, 43 goals in 43 games all comps, scored three or more in six matches including 5 past reigning champs Wolves. Gave Billy Wright nightmares in a few games.
Jimmy Greaves was the only opposition played to score against my team and I would enjoy it
THE BEST finisher in the game and his biography is so good, a must read for anybody who remembers Jimmy playing.
That´s right sir! :-)
As a kid in the 1960s I saw greaves play, both live and on tv. What people forget or dont know is the fact that he was very ill with hepatitis in 1965 and was never the same player after that. His lacklustre show in the 1966 world cup was due to the fact that he had lost that magic pace and dribbling ability that you speak of. Still great after and he recovered his goal scoring touch but became less mobile. Pre 1965 illness he was on another planet as a goal scoring forward.
just a fantastic player we salute you
when you look at Jimmy today, or even when he was in his 40s doing Saint and Greavsey, it is hard to imagine he was such a great goalscorer.
What a player. Messi like finishing. Way ahead of his time.
What!? are you a kid.... Football back then was miles ahead football has gone to pieces and lost true footballers and legends of the game since the early 2000's. As soon as athletes started being picked over footballers and players taking into youth systems and trained there individual talents out of them, the game has died. With the balls the used back then the pitches they played on and the tackles they took and made, messi wouldn't stand a chance end of.
An all time great- as a finisher I've still not seen anyone better!
Jimmy will always be my favourite.
I remember that goal against Newcastle in 1969 and also the one against Leicester in 1968 when he beat five defenders.
Yes, I remember the goal against Newcastle when he left (Ollie Burton) all over the place. I was in the Paxton Road end (with the visitors) for the game against Leicester when he left Malcolm Manley, Graham Cross, Brian Potts, David Nish & Peter Shilton helpless. Greavesie was the best striker, and possibly the best footballer, ever I reckon. Our David Gibson (Leicester) said he was the best opponent he had ever faced.
Jimmy was my idol at school I used to have his name written all over my satchel I got a load of hassle being the only Spurs fan in a lancashire school I rmember the Monday after spurs gave Burnley a real beating. I couldnt show my delight I had a terrible day being bullied by a few Burnley fans . happy memories !
Thanks for the memories. Way out on his own in those days. Scored the best goal I've ever seen, taking the ball at the halfway line, beating 5 defenders before slotting home. Can't remember who the game was against but stuck in my mind for the last 50 years.
+john wells Hello John......I was at that game at WHL and was my first ever pro match V Newcastle 1969 on a sandy pitch and still remember THAT goal......such class and a cool head. Keeper was Iam Mcfaul and 2 of the defenders were Ollie Burton and Bobby Moncur. BEST goalscorer I have EVER seen and would be worth £200 million and getting wages of £1 million a week.......Rooney not fit to lace his boots. Chris (Arsenal fan)
Chris, Great to read your comments. Agree entirely what you say about Rooney (and quite a few others fall into the same category)
I'm also now an Arsenal fan and watch the games from far away in Thailand. I wish Wenger would do the right thing next month to shore up a small squad to give us a fighting chance for the title this season.
As a young Spurs fan, initially I was unhappy as he replaced Les Allen from the double team. Soon changed my mind he was simply superb, and more skillful than many gave him credit for. Simply the best.
Tapper Greaves. The best forward in the history of the game.
He will not be equalled EVER.
2.36 and 2.44 instant control as he scores. How many times do you see today where modern players take too long to control the ball and lose out, cant see many today could score goals like those two goals. In a goalie to beat situation Jimmy always seemed to score, unlike many then and now who hit the goalie or miss altogether !!
As Brian Clough said"And Jimmy was the best of the lot". He should know.
a great point littlebigbrain , well said , he always knew where the net was, I seemed to remember reading he had a fantastic success in the number of penalties he converted in his career too showing how cool he was under pressure.
True gent! Had strength, soul and passion!
Jimmy Greaves was a dribbler, like Messi, but played in an era where positional play was much less sophisticated. Nowadays you'd try to get him on the ball as much as possible - as a number 10 maybe - because he was a player who could make things happen, could create something out of nothing with close control and pace. In the 60's he was often seen as a luxury and in the WC even lost out to a workhorse like Roger Hunt. Probably born in the wrong era is my lasting impression.
Yes Ashley Gaden i agree. Look at football now compared to even euro 96 and theres a huge gulf in class. Duncan Edwards and Bobby Charlton would be worth 150m each. Greaves the same. Sad how the talent has dried up. Society has gone soft never get back to how it was.
Talent has dried up with the working class kids not kicking balls together so much, being on computers, and the playing fields sold off to property developers
I remember a couple of years or so some internet poll about who was England's greatest ever striker. Jimmy wasn't in the top ten, which probably says something about the age of the voters. The stats don't lie - they are phenomenal. If a striker's job is to put the ball in the net, Jimmy was the greatest English striker of all time - Lineker, Owen, Shearer don't even come close. And as for Bobby Charlton........
Legend!
a true legend. a magic striker.great for spurs. my dad's team.
Superlucas - He did play the first three games but was injured for the quarter final and semi final against Argentina and Portugal. He was fit for selection for the final, but Alf Ramsey preferred to retain Geoff Hurst, who had shown up well as Jimmy's replacement, scoring against Argentina. In truth, he was not at his very best at the time, having suffered a serious illness earlier in the year (I think it was hepatitis), and he probably never did reach quite the heights he had in the early 60s.
I heard Jimmy himself say he was never the same after hepatitis..not sure when it was.I believe he wasn't in great form in the group stages of the 66WC.Hurst himself modestly said that Greaves had more skill.
@@marillion1 From memory, he contracted hepatitis during 65/66, and his form had already taken a dip before the World Cup.
I noticed your Eric Clapton video - I was lucky enough to meet Eric aa few times way back in the early 80s in a pub near his house.They say never meet your heroes but he was always polite - I never let on I knew who he was instead recall talking about WBA - his favourite football team. A few years later ,I was queuing up for Mark Knopflers autograph after a gig at Guildford Civic Hall before Dire Straits were huge.Clapton walks out and says Hello mate - how are you -- made my day - the look on a friend's face was priceless.
@@marillion1 Way to go when chatting to celebs. Talk about things they're really interested in (the trick of course is to find out what those are). They've heard all the compliments thousands of times before, and having to respond to them must get incredibly tedious.
none better at putting the ball in the net than Jimmy Greaves, mate
1963 as a 13 year old, went on to become a season ticket holder thru the 80/90s & now live in S Devon so very rarely go to matches but we have a strong Spurs supporters "shelf" at our local pub. Did you know Steve Perryman lives nearby, recovering from heart probs
Jimmy Greaves was the old school , never in trouble with the referees, after scoring wonder goals, just a shake of the hand. If it was one to one with a goalie to beat he was so cool, a goal every time. Many of his goals were placed , just as if he passed into the net, never has there been a more clinical or cool finisher in english foootball. I have seen greaves
( pre illness ) dribble ball beating many defenders with amazing pace, body swerves, run around the keeper at the end, so casual
Left or right foot head bum or heel a bloody genius.
Yes true and after research I found out that he also got sent off in the 1963 European cup winners cup semi final against OFK for attempting to punch a centre half who had been roughed up by Bobby Smith and picked on Jimmy as he was a smaller target !! Probably frustration led to his send off when playing for Barnet, for arguing with the Referee about a free kick I think ?
Beats me how Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic could have played such a hard match in such intensive heat, they must have been well knackered afterwards !! Hope you are keeping ok, my jobs are nearly finished so hopefully I can soon have a rest from my toils !!
114 F, wow !! Thats around 45 degrees centigrade...too hot !! It reached about 33 degrees centigrade ( thats about 90 F ) on the bbc weather reports in some parts of Uk in the recent hot spell. Of course it was hotter than that in some places, my back garden for a start reached 40 degrees ( its south facing and gets very hot there ) Also when Andy Murray played his final at wimbledon, it was reported to be at some of the times that afternoon reaching 50 degrees in the centre court area !!
No one ever will touch Jimmy´s position at the top of the Worlds greatest strikers.
I wish I could go back in time and watch the England matches that Jimmy was fantastic in like when we beat Scotland 9-3 in 1961, he scored three goals and so many other games as well of course. without a doubt he is England's best striker ever. With him and Bobby Charlton in the England team the two were invincible; and also you had Gordon Banks, Bobby Moore and Jack Charlton in the side as well, who were equally good at their part of the game.
England's best ever striker closely followed by Gary Lineker. Its a shame back then the pitches were so bad and the TV quality so poor. Many of his most spectacular goals were not included. I remember one in a World Cup qualifier when he ghosted past 4 or 5 defenders before scoring.
England's most clinical finisher, around 0.7-0.8 goals a game for England...
344 goals in 478 appearances for Chelsea and Spurs is Messi like constitency before goal. It is phenomenal. He is not so much underrated as non rated yet was without argument the finest British post war striker. it is weird.
Messi of The 60's
nah Pele was there so no
And Eusebio was also a better striker than Greaves.
Completely true comment. Greaves was at his peak in the seasons up to 1965 and lost his quicksilver pace after that illness.
The guy would have scored even more goal today as the offside rule is easier today than in the 50s and 60s. In his day you had to have two players between you and the goal line and not as it is today being level with the 2nd last player. The number of goals that were chalked off because he was level with the 2nd last player must have been between 50 and a 100 goals on top of the 357 first division goals he scored which is still the record and a 100 more than Shearer.
Some of the clips also show that Greaves was a better and more dangerous aerial finisher than is often currently remembered.
As a Man united fan I have to admit Greavesie was a bit special. In his day Scored some great goals .
Good to hear from you Legend. By the way, it'd be great if someone put up a definitive 10 - 15 minute film... I'll be that 80 - 100 of Greavsie's goals are gathering rust in various places.
I agree 100 percent with you vitusdoom and have never forgiven the late Sir Alf Ramsey for dropping the great Jimmy Greaves in the 1966 World Cup.
Top scorer ever in the English top division. Alan Shearer , who is 5th, is the only modern striker who comes close.
Defending was shocking back then though
Yes but so were the pitches
It was baffling why he was dropped after the '66 win he l ws the top scorer in the league
My first football hero. Only Lineker (of the English players) came close to him since! But he was not as skilful as Jimmy.
Well I do other things in my life other than writing on youtube jimmy greaves threads !!
Write a few comments on classical music on youtube, alsodoing all my jobs on my house decorating, gardening etc also have a girlfriend who has a house that needs forever repairing and redecorating, like many women she should have married an all round builder and decorator !!
Hope you are keeping well, very hot in UK at the moment !!
@seanreillyireland I couldn't agree more, and I can't think of anyone even in pensioners' memories who would come close.
My dad told me if you wouldhave suggested ayear b4 that greaves would not play in 66 final
Hed ave got an extra day off for mourning, I dont think ive ever heard him bitch about it, he truly his bonafide knight of the lane,
How could such temples of football have such muddy penalty areAs. Anyway I heard Jimmy had a stroke. I hope he has a full recovery and even if not I hope he has a good quality of life left on this earth.
The greatest British striker in non-pensioners living memory, and maybe beyond. Superior to Muller because he was so skillful.
Imagine a GB team with Greaves, Law, Charlton and BEST in the forward line...........WOOOOOOOW. Chris Gooner fan but respector of all GREAT players
With John Charles the Welsh centre-forward.
Yeah but maybe Charles could play in central defence since he was also a great centre half.
Nobody did or does it better than James Peter Greaves ( or ever will)
I should imagine that jimmy's second sending off for Barnet was a lot down to frustration at getting older and more injury prone and also to his inborn problems of liking a bit too much to drink. Jimmy was never a dirty player who went out to hurt people. When you get older and your body cant do what it did so easily when you where younger, it does make you get wound up, as I fully know myself ! I notice on your channel that you like Brian Clough, great Character wasn't he !!
His style was rolls-royce smooth..:)
it was around 114 F in the Las Vegas area the day that you replied to me, mate.
He played in the first 3 matches but got injured and when it came to the final and he was fit Ramsey decided to stick with Hurst. So he did play but not in the knockout stages or the final..
Goal at .23 sec = Greaves like no other.
Best Striker Chelsea and Tottenham ever had
Up there with Muller for me, but just behind Eusebio, Puskas and van Basten.
I'D pick Greaves over Messi any day.
Well hepatitis can be caused by many things of which some I would not wish to mention, just say that jimmy got it in 1965 and he admits himself that it knocked the stuffing out of him and he lost a yard of pace that he never got back, what caused him to catch it ...who knows ? I believe I heard that Gary linneker also got it at some stage in his career, have to check up on that one ?
From a certain pensioner's "living memory": Greaves is definitely near the top of that list, mate.
I've never understood how Greaves ended up being remembered by many as just a goal-poacher, especially at or near the peak of his playing career.
there should be a statue of him outside of the new stadium. he was spurs greatest ever player.
These three were better players than either Muller, Greaves or Romario (who has grand ideas of himself). But my point is that as well as a goalscorer par excellence, Jimmy was far more skillful than the average Lineker-esque goal hanger.
this is why other team should just leave chelsea alone because when they do produce talent its normally top notch
Yes he was a self confessed alcoholic as were many footballers round this time and if they were not then there were near to it as football had a drinking culture round it at that time as did many working class people, we all spent a lot more time in pubs, drinking and smoking etc. The breathalizer and smoking bans in pubs etc have changed habits for average people a lot, no pubs with meals in those days, lucky to get a packet of crisps ! Anyway, jimmy's liking for alcohol did him no favours !
Anybody knows why the hell didn't he play at the 1966 World Cup ???
I was born well after Greaves time but I have to say that I find all my inspiration from the great players of the 60s-70s not the overpaid wannabe gangsters and it soulless globalised market place of todays footballers.
England's greatest goal scorer.
No, really.
Generally true, yet he was sent off playing for Barnet.
He got 74 more than Shearer but played five years less!! Shearer missed almost 2 seasons with serious knee injuries though, to be fair.
Whar are the odds that I'd bump into you in a thread about "Greavsie"? :)
Wasn't it due to drinking though? With all due respect! I love Jimmy!
What about Gerd Muller .and Manny Burgsmuller I think you will find they scored more goals than Jimmy.
Not forgetting Hungarians Kocsis' 75 goals in 68 and Puskas' 84 in 85. Puskas of course was tremendous creative player as well as scorer.
Product of CHELSEA FC
Man, Spurs could do with another Greaves
not superior to Muller, Muller had more goals and won a lot of trophies for Club and country.
Having said that Legend, I have only seen him over 90 mins once... Scotland '67... he was AWFUL... Bobby Charlton on the other hand was everywhere... put me in mind of Mazzola jnr for Italy... same graceful dribbling. Jimmy was terrible in that game. Mind you, the real stars were the Celtic / Rangers contingent, slim Jim would've been annonymous had England 11 fit men.
Easily the best striker England ever had and on awful pitches
crap.