RIP Jimmy Greaves

[dublinbluenose]

Saint & Greavsie is one of the great football shows.

RIP

 

[ste d' indica]

RIP fella, top class footballer, seemed like a genuinely lovely man.

 

[kev]

As a player he was a fantastic instinctive goal scorer and poacher supreme.
His troubles with alcohol and weight problems after retirement from football obviously made the headlines, but he did tremendously well to eventually put his alcoholism behind him.
As a pundit and show host he always came across as a bloke who it would be fun to spend some time with.
He had a stroke in 2016 and apparently spent his last years unable to walk or talk.
Talented and troubled in equal measure.
Rest In Peace Greavesie

 

[Blue Sky]

#​	Player	Team(s)	M.​	goals​	Penalty​	Ø​
1​	Jimmy Greaves	Chelsea FC Tottenham Hotspur West Ham United	516​	357​	29​	0.69​
2​	Alan Shearer	Southampton FC Newcastle United Blackburn Rovers	559​	283​	56​	0.51​
3​	Nat Lofthouse	Bolton Wanderers	452​	253​	2​	0.56​
4​	Ian Rush	Leeds United Newcastle United Liverpool FC	514​	233​	2​	0.45​
5​	David Herd	Manchester United Arsenal FC Stoke City	412​	223​	0​	0.54​
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[Blue Sky]

#​	Player	Team(s)	M.​	goals​	Penalty​	Ø​			​	​	​	​
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6​	Tony Cottee	Leicester City West Ham United Everton FC	548​	215​	9​	0.39​
7​	Geoff Hurst	West United Stoke City	520​	211​	16​	0.41​
8​	Ronnie Allen	West Bromwich Albion	415​	210​	18​	0.51​
9​	Wayne Rooney	Manchester United Everton FC	491​	208​	23​	0.42​
10​	Denis Law	Manchester United Manchester City	376​	201​	8​	0.53​

 

[duncs pigeon]

RIP Jimmy. What a footballer and goalscorer.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Before my time as a player.
But great on the telly.
Up there with his mate Saint now.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Only player post WW2 to score 40+ in a league season, criminal that Saint and Greavesie was cancelled on the advent of the PL, ITV should have kept it going as an accompaniment for their Football League coverage or Sky should have poached them for a PL based show

 

[daza_1973]

The king of my childhood Saturday lunchtimes in our mid 80's glory days - R.I.P

 

[gonetomorrow]

Greaves, Law, Baxter, Best.
These were the figures who dominated the playground football games. You had your cuffs clutched in hand like Law or you hung around the box like Greavesie and fed on scraps.
But he wasn't just a poacher. The first English match I attended was at Spurs v Forest 1963/64 and he scored a hattrick - one being an airborne volley. He wasn't long back from his Italian trip.

 

[royalblue66]

Remember him with St John, they were in America up in the Catskill mountains,
think they were looking for Mohamed Ali’s training camp, Greavsie went off to ask directions, when he got back he said to St John “ let’s get outa here, it’s like the village of the damned” he said with a shudder ?. What T V entertainment that
show was. RIP Jimmy.

 

[PSB1]

One of Britain's absolute finest strikers. Did all his work in the last third but wow! what a player. Not one for blasting a shot ... placed the ball having sent the GK wandering off somewhere else. Complete class. Broke Evertonian hearts more than once but, like Banks, he was somehow above the tribal warfare.

R I P Never be one like you.

 

[john jako]

Great guy on the TV, never watched him as an youngish but looking at his stats and clips of him I can see why people say he’s one of the greatest ever. RIP.

 

[Bluerover]

The king of my childhood Saturday lunchtimes in our mid 80's glory days - R.I.P

Likewise.

A legend.

RIP

 

[davek]

His scoring record is out of this world. What a 'kin player.

RIP