RIP Jimmy Greaves

[Inigo Montoya]

Condolences to his family

Wonderful finisher. One of the greatest I’ve ever seen.
Reinvented himself with the Saint And Greavsie show which for a while was so watchable.

RIP

 

[BlackShark_80]

Tweet

— Twitter API (@user) date

RIP

 

[EverReddy]

Spurs have just announced the death of Jimmy Greaves.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Really sad at this. I watched documentary on BT about him and what a finisher, but could run with the ball as well. R.I.P. Greavsie.

 

[EverReddy]

Can a mod please merge the multuiple Jimmy Greaves threads. Thanks

 

[Stack]

RIP, a huge loss. I remember him from when I was a kid.

 

[RomfordRed75]

RIP
I grew up watching Saint and Greavsie, great show.
Fitting that Spurs are playing Chelsea today as well

 

[Port Vale Devil]

RIP, I cannot remember him as a player but loved Saint and Greavsie.

Had been ill for a long time though so hopefully in a better place now.

 

[Paxi]

Ffs. RIP seemed like a nice man. Condolences to all the spurs fans — he’s a legend in English football.

 

[Pexbo]

Very sad indeed. One of the faces of British Football Broadcasting since before I can remember. RIP.

 

[Wilt]

Terrific striker.

RIP Jimmy.

 

[Peter van der Gea]

RIP

 

[golden_blunder]

Awww I grew up on that tv show, loved it

too young to see him as a footballer but by all accounts he was razor sharp

 

[EverReddy]

Was the absolute best at "passing it into the net". Not showy but deadly effective.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Awww I grew up on that tv show, loved it

too young to see him as a footballer but by all accounts he was razor sharp

Just discussing on Talksport about when he joined A C Milan and got homesick and wanted to come home, but he couldn't stop scoring goals.

 

[WeePat]

Ah crap that's horrible news. RIP.

 

[Paxi]

What happened to him?

 

[DomesticTadpole]

What happened to him?

He died.

 

[Paxi]

He died.

No shit.

 

[Joga Bonito]

RIP

 

[Devil may care]

One of my Dad's favourite players, R.I.P Greavsie.

 

[Bocca9978]

Legend of the game. RIP Jimmy.

 

[Steve Bruce]

Legend is thrown about all too easy these days, but not with Jimmy. A true legend of the game and a great personality afterwards RIP

 

[Bulldog United]

I loved watching Saint and Greavsie as a kid.
There's some episodes on YouTube I was watching awhile back.
RIP to an England legend.

 

[Inigo Montoya]

Really sad at this. I watched documentary on BT about him and what a finisher, but could run with the ball as well. R.I.P. Greavsie.

Good mates with Best and Law for all the problems that brought him in later life

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Good mates with Best and Law for all the problems that brought him in later life

They mentioned an anecdote about someone wanting to do a book about him and Best and he said If anybody can remember where him and Bestie were in the 70's go ahead. Also someone said about him doing a book about goalscoring and he said. I arrive, the ball arrives, there you go.

 

[Desert Eagle]

RIP

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

Rest in peace.

 

[RedRonaldo]

RIP

 

[NasirTimothy]

Great of the game. One of the best to ever come out of England. RIP.

I could be misremembering this but I seem to recall him talking about his goalscoring technique and saying that he used to always aim for the keeper when finishing. Often he’d miss and the ball would go in

Also remember him saying that if he’d scored every chance he missed, and missed every one that he did score, he’d have 3 times the goals…..

 

[Inigo Montoya]

They mentioned an anecdote about someone wanting to do a book about him and Best and he said If anybody can remember where him and Bestie were in the 70's go ahead. Also someone said about him doing a book about goalscoring and he said. I arrive, the ball arrives, there you go.

A Spurs supporter once told me back in the day when Utd were in London, Greaves would go out with the Utd lads. Apparently this guy was good mates with Dave McKay and he told him that Law went out with Greaves the night before Utd played Chelsea.
Law woke up pissed as a fart and reported to play at Stamford Bridge still out of it. Sir Matt told the staff to get him showered and on the pitch even though he was drunk.

Law played the first half and scored 2 goals and was done after that!

 

[DomesticTadpole]

A Spurs supporter once told me back in the day when Utd were in London, Greaves would go out with the Utd lads. Apparently this guy was good mates with Dave McKay and he told him that Law went out with Greaves the night before Utd played Chelsea.
Law woke up pissed as a fart and reported to play at Stamford Bridge still out of it. Sir Matt told the staff to get him showered and on the pitch even though he was drunk.

Law played the first half and scored 2 goals and was done after that!

Wow! Actually amazing they have lasted this long. Just shows what amazing talents they were.

 

[Darkhorsez]

RIP Greavsie. Never saw him as a player but loved watching his show with Saint. My week was incomplete without seeing it. What memories. Feel really sad.

 

[Acole9]

R.I.P. sad news. Lived just down the road from me.

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

One of the greatest goal scorers this country has ever seen.

11 seasons out of 12 scoring over 20 goals!

44 England goals in 57 caps! Should’ve had the record

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Greaves

This is him (1 min in) cooly drifting through our defence and placing it in the net. A lovely elegant player.

RIP.

 

[Stack]

 

[DomesticTadpole]

One of the greatest goal scorers this country has ever seen.

11 seasons out of 12 scoring over 20 goals!

44 England goals in 57 caps! Should’ve had the record

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Greaves

This is him (1 min in) cooly drifting through our defence and placing it in the net. A lovely elegant player.

RIP.

What a goal that was. It was like the defence wasn't there.

 

[red woppit]

One of England's greatest goalscorers. A sad day, RIP Jimmy Greaves.

 

[ZolaWasMagic]

Sad news, RIP. Fitting that the 2 clubs he loved most and was a legend for, are facing off today.

 

[FireballXL5]

Great player. RIP Greavsie.