baldy Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 Just seen a posting that Jimmy has died. One of our greatest strikers who certainly encountered the highs and lows that life can throw at you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100%cornish Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 Jimmy Greaves saw him play in my 1st ever football match ,my dad took me to Home Park to watch Plymouth reserves vs Spurs Reserves and it was Jimmys 1st game back in this country after playing in Italy .My dad got Jimmys autograph ,thats what got me hooked on watching footy Jimmy was a great and he must of been devastated when he wasnt picked for the 1966 England team .Jimmy was 1 of the greats up there with my all time Hero George Best .Jimmy played at Home Park December 1961 the crowd was 12,907 for a reserve match .I was 5 at the time Spurs won 4-1 and Jimmy scored twice Ian Pethick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldy Posted September 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 57 minutes ago, 100%cornish said: Jimmy Greaves saw him play in my 1st ever football match ,my dad took me to Home Park to watch Plymouth reserves vs Spurs Reserves and it was Jimmys 1st game back in this country after playing in Italy .My dad got Jimmys autograph ,thats what got me hooked on watching footy Jimmy was a great and he must of been devastated when he wasnt picked for the 1966 England team .Jimmy was 1 of the greats up there with my all time Hero George Best .Jimmy played at Home Park December 1961 the crowd was 12,907 for a reserve match .I was 5 at the time Spurs won 4-1 and Jimmy scored twice Great anecdote Steve. Fancy winning the double and then adding a player of that class. Have to remind everyone, they haven’t won the league since oops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bray Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 37 minutes ago, baldy said: Great anecdote Steve. Fancy winning the double and then adding a player of that class. Have to remind everyone, they haven’t won the league since oops! Yes Steve can remember catching the train in St.Austell and i was one of the near 13,000 at Home Park that afternoon. Jimmy always referred the to the Scots as ' you Jocko's'. What a player he was, one of my all time football heroes, RIP Jimmy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100%cornish Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 Saint and Greavsie show was so funny Jimmy always had a go about how bad Scottish goalies where Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheolderIgetthebetterIwas Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 RIP Jimmy...my all time hero when I started playing football and supporting Spurs. What would he be worth today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldy Posted September 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 Aged 14. This was the first time I saw the great man, just look at that team. Leicester City v Tottenham Hotspur, 25 March 1967 Score1-0 to Tottenham Hotspur CompetitionLeague Division One Attendance27,711 View Leicester City v Tottenham Hotspur head to head 0Leicester City 1Tottenham Hotspur Goals: Goals: Jimmy Robertson Starting lineup: GoalkeeperGordon Banks DefenderDavid Nish DefenderPeter Rodrigues Central defenderGraham Cross Left backRichie Norman MidfielderPaul Matthews MidfielderBobby Roberts MidfielderJackie Sinclair Wing halfBilly McDerment Outside LeftMike Stringfellow ForwardJimmy Goodfellow Starting lineup: GoalkeeperPat Jennings DefenderMike England DefenderJoe Kinnear DefenderCyril Knowles Defender/MidfielderDave Mackay Midfielder Alan Mullery MidfielderTerry Venables ForwardAlan Gilzean ForwardJimmy Greaves ForwardFrank Saul WingerJimmy Robertson TheolderIgetthebetterIwas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Pethick Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 Was interested to read that Jimmy Greaves' record of 366 in the top 5 European Leagues (357 in Division One, 9 in Serie A) was only surpassed in 2017 by Cristiano Ronaldo. Greaves wound down his career playing for Chelmsford, Atherstone, Barnet and Woodford, by this stage he was gripped by alcoholism and a self admitted lack of motivation (read in his autobiography that, out of all his West Ham teammates in his final season at the top level in 1971, he only rated Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Billy Bonds and Pop Robson as players) . By contrast, Ronaldo is seeing out his days playing for Manchester United. Two big "what ifs?" in his career, how would his career have played out if he played in the 1966 World Cup Final? And, perhaps more intriguingly, what if he had joined Brian Clough at Derby in 1971 instead of going to West Ham? Cloughie did specialise at both Derby and Forest in taking players that were in the autumn of their career or with disciplinary issues and reinvigorating them (as he did with the likes of Kenny Burns, Charlie George, Larry Lloyd and Dave Mackay). A genius of a player who found redemption and national treasure status in a second act as a much loved pundit and TV personality. Dave Deacon and baldy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 On 19/09/2021 at 14:03, TheolderIgetthebetterIwas said: RIP Jimmy...my all time hero when I started playing football and supporting Spurs. What would he be worth today? Mine too Older. At Home Park for the FA Cup game in 1962 with Dad when I was 11. 40,040 in the ground that day, what an atmosphere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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