Saint & Greavsie is one of the great football shows.
RIP
RIP
RIP Jimmy Greaves
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RIP fella, top class footballer, seemed like a genuinely lovely man.
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
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
# | Player | Team(s) | M. | goals | Penalty | Ø |
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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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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
Player Valuation: £40m
RIP Jimmy. What a footballer and goalscorer.
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
Before my time as a player.
But great on the telly.
Up there with his mate Saint now.
But great on the telly.
Up there with his mate Saint now.
BlueStevie35
Player Valuation: £70m
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
The king of my childhood Saturday lunchtimes in our mid 80's glory days - R.I.P
gonetomorrow
Player Valuation: £80m
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.
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
Player Valuation: £70m
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.
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.
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.
R I P Never be one like you.
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
Player Valuation: £60m
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