Jimmy Greaves
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | James Peter Greaves | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 20 February 1940 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth |
Manor Park, Essex , England | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 19 September 2021 | (aged 81)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Danbury, Essex, England | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
1955–1957 |
Chelsea | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1957–1961 | Chelsea | 157 | (124) | ||||||||||||||
1961 |
AC Milan | 10 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
1961–1970 | Tottenham Hotspur | 321 | (220) | ||||||||||||||
1970–1971 | West Ham United | 38 | (13) | ||||||||||||||
1975–1976 | Brentwood | ||||||||||||||||
1976–1977 | Chelmsford City | 38 | (20) | ||||||||||||||
1977–1979 | Barnet | 51 | (16) | ||||||||||||||
1979–1980 | Woodford Town | ||||||||||||||||
Total | 617 | (402) | |||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1957–1962[2] | England U23 | 12 | (13) | ||||||||||||||
1959–1967[3] | England | 57 | (44) | ||||||||||||||
1965 | United Kingdom | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
James Peter Greaves MBE (20 February 1940 – 19 September 2021) was an English professional footballer who played as a forward. Regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time and one of England's best ever players,[4][5][6] he is England's fifth-highest international goalscorer with 44 goals, which includes an English record of six hat-tricks, and is Tottenham Hotspur's second-highest all-time top goalscorer. Greaves is the highest goalscorer in the history of English top-flight football with 357 goals. He finished as the First Division's top scorer in six seasons, more times than any other player and came third in the 1963 Ballon d'Or rankings.[7][8] He is also a member of the English Football Hall of Fame.
Greaves began his professional career at
Greaves scored 13 goals in 12
After retiring as a player, Greaves went on to enjoy a successful career in broadcasting, most notably working alongside Ian St John on Saint and Greavsie from 1985 to 1992. During this period, he also made regular appearances on TV-am. He worked on a number of other sport programmes on ITV during this period, including Sporting Triangles (1987–1990).
Early life and club career
Chelsea
Greaves was born in Manor Park and grew up in Hainault, Essex .[9] He was scouted by Chelsea's Jimmy Thompson, and in 1955 was signed on as an apprentice to become one of "Drake's Ducklings" (named after manager Ted Drake in response to Manchester United's "Busby Babes").[9] He soon made an impression at youth level, scoring 51 goals in the 1955–56 season and 122 goals in the 1956–57 season under the tutelage of youth team coach Dick Foss.[10] Greaves scored in the 1958 FA Youth Cup final, but Chelsea lost the two-legged tie 7–6 on aggregate after Wolverhampton Wanderers turned round a four-goal deficit with a 6–1 win in the second leg.[11] He turned professional in the summer of 1957, though spent eight weeks working at a steel company to supplement his income during the summer break.[12]
First Division goals in England | |||
Player | Goals | Matches | Goals/matches |
Jimmy Greaves | 357 | 516 | 0.69
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Steve Bloomer | 314 | 535 | 0.59
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Dixie Dean | 310 | 362 | 0.86
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Gordon Hodgson | 288 | 455 | 0.63
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Alan Shearer | 283 | 559 | 0.51
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Aged 17, Greaves scored on his First Division debut on 24 August 1957 against Tottenham Hotspur in a 1–1 draw at White Hart Lane.[13][14] He was an instant success, as the News Chronicle reported that he "showed the ball control, confidence and positional strength of a seasoned campaigner" and compared his debut to the instant impact the young Duncan Edwards had as a teenager.[15] The "Blues" played attacking football during the 1957–58 campaign, resulting in high-scoring matches, and Greaves ended the season as the club's top scorer with 22 goals in 37 appearances.[16] Drake rested him for six weeks from mid-November as he did not wish the praise Greaves was receiving to go to his head; Greaves marked his return to the first team at Stamford Bridge with four goals in a 7–4 victory over Portsmouth on Christmas Day.[17]
Greaves scored five goals in a 6–2 win against league champions Wolverhampton Wanderers in the third match of the 1958–59 season.[18] Chelsea remained inconsistent and finished in 14th place. Nevertheless, Greaves ended the season as the First Division's top scorer with 32 goals in 44 league games.[14][19] Greaves scored 29 goals in 40 league matches in the 1959–60 campaign, five of which came in a 5–4 victory over Preston North End.[20] Despite his goalscoring exploits, the club could manage only an 18th-place finish, three places and three points above the relegation zone.[21]
In the
AC Milan
Greaves was signed by Italian
Tottenham Hotspur
After protracted negotiations,
Greaves scored twice in the
Manager Bill Nicholson and his assistant Eddie Baily then began a period of transition at White Hart Lane – Danny Blanchflower aged 38 retired in 1964 and John White was killed by a lightning strike.[49] Dave Mackay remained until 1968 and Greaves remained a consistent goalscorer. In the 1963–64 season Greaves scored hat-tricks in victories over Nottingham Forest, Blackpool, Birmingham City and Blackburn Rovers. Spurs finished in fourth place, six points behind champions Liverpool, and exited the FA Cup and Cup Winners' Cup at the opening stages.[50] Greaves scored 35 goals in 41 league games to again finish as the division's top scorer. Strike partner Bobby Smith left the club in the summer, though Greaves felt the partnership he went on to form with new signing Alan Gilzean was even more effective.[51]
Spurs finished sixth in 1964–65, though Greaves scored 29 goals in 41 league games to finish as the division's joint top scorer (with Andy McEvoy). He also scored two hat-tricks in the FA Cup – against Torquay United and Ipswich Town – to take his total tally to 35 goals in 45 appearances. He missed three months at the start of the 1965–66 season after being diagnosed with hepatitis,[52] but recovered to end the campaign with 16 goals in 31 matches, remaining the club's top scorer as they finished the league campaign in eighth place whilst failing to make it past the Fifth Round of the FA Cup.[52]
Greaves scored 31 goals in 47 appearances in the
In 1968–69, Greaves scored 27 goals in 42 league games to finish as the First Division's leading scorer for the sixth and final time.[56] He scored four of his goals in one match against Sunderland, and also scored hat-tricks against Burnley and Leicester City. His nine goals in cup competitions, including a hat-trick against Exeter City, left him with an overall goal tally of 36 in 52 games.[56] His goals for the season took him past Bobby Smith as Spurs' top goalscorer[57] as well as surpassing Steve Bloomer as the First Division's top goalscorer with 336 goals. Spurs performed inconsistently in the 1969–70 season, and Greaves was dropped from the first team after playing in an FA Cup defeat to Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park on 28 January 1970.[58] He was never recalled to the starting line-up, but still ended the season as the club's joint top scorer (with Martin Chivers), having scored 11 goals in 33 matches. He finished his Spurs career with 268 goals in 381 appearances in total,[59] including 15 hat-tricks, a club record.[60] The club only attributes him with 266 goals, as they do not include two that he scored in the 1962 FA Charity Shield.[61][62] Greaves was given a testimonial match by Spurs on 17 October 1972 in a 2–1 win over Feyenoord at White Hart Lane attended by over 45,000 people.[63][64]
West Ham United
In March 1970, Greaves joined West Ham United as part-exchange in Martin Peters' transfer to White Hart Lane.[65] Brian Clough's Derby County had also been interested in Greaves, but he did not want to move away from London. In hindsight Greaves felt that Clough might have helped him revive his career, as he had done for Greaves's former Tottenham teammate Dave Mackay.[65] Greaves later admitted his regret in making the move to Upton Park.[66] He scored two goals on his "Hammers" debut on 21 March, in a 5–1 win against Manchester City at Maine Road.[67]
In January 1971, with Bobby Moore, Brian Dear and Clyde Best, Greaves was involved in late-night drinking, against the wishes of manager Ron Greenwood, before a FA Cup tie away to Blackpool.[68] On arriving in Blackpool, Greaves and his teammates had been informed by members of the press that the game, the following day, was unlikely to go ahead due to a frozen pitch and the likelihood of frost that night. Believing that there would be no game the following day, Greaves drank 12 lagers in a club owned by Brian London and did not return to the team hotel until 1.45am. In fact, the match went ahead and West Ham lost 4–0. Greaves claimed the defeat was not a result of the late night, the drinking or the frozen pitch, but because the West Ham team in which he was playing was not good enough. As a result, the players were fined and dropped by the club.[69]
Greaves was struggling with his fitness and his motivation. He felt he had become a
Greaves's final season in the First Division took his goalscoring tally to a record 357 goals in the First Division. Together with the 9 goals at A.C. Milan, he had scored 366 goals in the top five European leagues, a record that lasted until 2017 when it was surpassed by Cristiano Ronaldo.[72]
Later career
After leaving West Ham, Greaves put on weight and did not attend a match as either a player or a spectator for two years.
His return to football was successful enough that he signed for Chelmsford City in the Southern League for the 1976–77 season, making his debut in a 2–2 draw against Maidstone United on 25 September 1976, attracting a crowd of 2,030 to New Writtle Street.[78] Appearing 38 times for Chelmsford, scoring 20 goals, Greaves enjoyed the club's foray into the Anglo-Italian Cup, calling it the "highlight" of his time there.[79][80] He was still struggling with alcoholism and delirium tremens and sought out help from Alcoholics Anonymous.[81] He was also hospitalised in the alcoholics' ward of Warley Psychiatric Hospital.[82]
In August 1977, and still coping with alcoholism, Greaves made his debut for Barnet in a 3–2 win against Atherstone Town.[83] Playing from midfield in 1977–78, Greaves netted 25 goals (13 in the Southern League) and was their player of the season.[84] He chose to leave the Bees early in the 1978–79 season to focus on his business interests and beating his alcoholism, despite manager Barry Fry's attempts to get him to stay at Underhill.[85] Greaves went on to make several appearances for semi-professional side Woodford Town before retiring.[84] By this time he was sober, and remained so for the rest of his life.[86]
International career
Goals for England | |||
Player[87] | Goals | Matches | Goals/matches |
Harry Kane* | 62 | 89 | 0.70
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Wayne Rooney | 53 | 120 | 0.44
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Bobby Charlton | 49 | 106 | 0.46
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Gary Lineker | 48 | 80 | 0.60
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Jimmy Greaves | 44 | 57 | 0.77
|
* Harry Kane still active (26 March 2024) |
Greaves made his debut for the England under-23 team in a 6–2 win over Bulgaria at Stamford Bridge on 25 September 1957; he scored two goals,[2] and missed out on a hat-trick after failing to convert a penalty.[88]
Greaves won his first
He played in all four of England's games at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile, scoring one goal in the 3–1 victory over Argentina before playing in the quarter-final defeat to Brazil.[94] During the defeat to Brazil a stray dog ran onto the pitch and evaded all of the players' efforts to catch it until Greaves got down on all fours to beckon the animal.[95] The Brazilian player Garrincha thought the incident was so amusing that he took the dog home as a pet.[96]
On 20 November 1963, he scored four goals in an 8–3 win over Northern Ireland.[97] The following year, on 3 October, he scored another hat-trick against the same team[98] making him England's all-time top goalscorer with 35 goals. He scored four goals again on 29 June 1966, in a 6–1 friendly win over Norway, bringing his tally to 43 goals and in doing so ensured himself a starting place in the 1966 FIFA World Cup.[99]
"I danced around the pitch with everyone else but even in this moment of triumph and great happiness, deep down I felt my sadness. Throughout my years as a professional footballer I had dreamed of playing in a World Cup Final. I had missed out on the match of a lifetime and it hurt."
— Greaves was bitterly disappointed to have missed the World Cup final, though it was only after his playing career ended that he descended into alcoholism.[100]
At the World Cup he played all three group games against
Greaves played only three more times for England after the 1966 World Cup, scoring a single goal. His final cap came in a 1–0 win over
Style of play
Greaves was a prolific goalscorer, and cited his relaxed attitude as the reason for his assured composure and confidence.[107][108] He also had great acceleration and pace,[109][110] as well as great positional skills,[111][112] clinical finishing,[108] and opportunism inside the penalty area; he was also an excellent dribbler.[113][114]
Broadcasting career
Greaves became a columnist at The Sun newspaper in 1979.[115] He continued to write his column until 2009, then began working as a columnist for The Sunday People.[116] He worked as a pundit on Star Soccer from 1980, and later co-presented The Saturday Show before he was selected as a pundit for ITV's coverage of the 1982 FIFA World Cup.[117] From there he worked on World of Sport and On the Ball, where he struck up a partnership with Ian St John.[118] Greg Dyke also hired Greaves to work as a television reviewer and presenter on TV-am in what Dyke admitted was a way of "dumbing down" the programme to attract more viewers.[119] From October 1985 to April 1992 he and St. John presented a popular Saturday lunchtime football programme called Saint and Greavsie.[120] He went on to work as a team captain on Sporting Triangles, opposite Andy Gray and Emlyn Hughes.[121] His career in television came to an end as the Premier League was starting up, and he believed that his light-hearted approach to football was not considered serious enough for television bosses at the time.[122] Despite this, he continued as a pundit at Central Television until 1998.[123]
He released his autobiography, Greavsie, in 2003. Greaves also wrote numerous books in partnership with his lifelong friend, the journalist and author Norman Giller.[124]
Personal life
Greaves was of Irish descent through his grandparents.[125] He married Irene Barden at Romford register office on 26 March 1958,[126] and, though the pair went through a divorce process at the height of his alcoholism, it was never finalised and they reunited after three months apart.[127] The couple renewed their vows on 7 September 2017 in Danbury, Essex.[128]
They had five children; Jimmy Jr (who died before his first birthday in 1960), Lynn (born 1959), Mitzi (born 1962), Danny (born 1963) (who was a professional footballer with Southend United), and Andrew (born 1965).[115][129][130]
Whilst playing for Tottenham Hotspur, Greaves took out a £1,000 bank loan to start a packing business with his brother-in-law.[131] By the end of his playing career this company had an annual turnover of over £1 million.[131] He had a number of different business interests, including a travel agency.[132] Greaves entered the 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally. In his first ever rally, alongside co-driver, Tony Fall, Greaves drove a Ford Escort to a sixth-place finish out of the 96 entrants.[126][133]
Greaves underwent surgery on an artery in his neck following a mild stroke in February 2012.
Greaves died at his home in Little Baddow on 19 September 2021, aged 81.[141][142] As his death date coincided with the Premier League fixture between Tottenham and Chelsea, the two main clubs he played for in his career, a minute of applause was held to honour his memory.[143] His funeral was held on 22 October at Chelmsford Crematorium.[144]
Career statistics
Club
Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League Cup[b] | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
London XI | 1955–58 | – | – | – | 2[c] | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Chelsea | 1957–58 | First Division | 35 | 22 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 37 | 22 | ||
1958–59 | First Division | 42 | 32 | 2 | 2 | – | 3[c] | 3 | 47 | 37 | ||
1959–60 | First Division | 40 | 29 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 42 | 30 | |||
1960–61 | First Division | 40 | 41 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – | 43 | 43 | ||
Total | 157 | 124 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 169 | 132 | ||
A.C. Milan
|
1961–62
|
Serie A | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | – | 2[c] | 0 | 13 | 9 | |
Tottenham Hotspur | 1961–62 | First Division | 22 | 21 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 30 |
1962–63 | First Division | 41 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7[d] | 7 | 49 | 44 | |
1963–64 | First Division | 41 | 35 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2[e] | 1 | 45 | 36 | |
1964–65 | First Division | 41 | 29 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 35 | |
1965–66 | First Division | 29 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 16 | |
1966–67 | First Division | 38 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 31 | |
1967–68 | First Division | 39 | 23 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5[f] | 3 | 48 | 29 | |
1968–69 | First Division | 42 | 27 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 36 | |
1969–70 | First Division | 28 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 11 | |
Total | 321 | 220 | 36 | 32 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 11 | 381 | 268 | ||
West Ham United | 1969–70 | First Division | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 |
1970–71 | First Division | 32 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 9 | |
Total | 38 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 13 | ||
Brentwood Town | 1975–76 | Essex Senior League | ||||||||||
Chelmsford City | 1976–77 | Southern League Premier Division | 38 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 20 |
Barnet | 1977–78 | Southern League Premier Division | 30 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1[g] | 1 | 36 | 18 |
1978–79 | Southern League Premier Division | 21 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1[g] | 1 | 28 | 7 | |
Total | 51 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 64 | 25 | ||
Woodford Town | 1979–80 | Athenian League | ||||||||||
Career total | 615 | 402 | 56 | 42 | 11 | 7 | 25 | 18 | 707 | 469 |
- ^ Includes FA Cup, Coppa Italia
- Football League Cup
- ^ a b c Appearances in Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
- ^ 1 appearance and 2 goals in the 1962 FA Charity Shield (not recognized by Tottenham) and 6 appearances and 5 goals in the 1962–63 European Cup Winners' Cup.
- ^ Appearance/s and goal/s in the European Cup Winners' Cup.
- ^ 1 appearance in the 1967 FA Charity Shield (not recognized by Tottenham) and 4 appearances and 3 goals in the European Cup Winners' Cup.
- ^ a b Appearance/s and goal/s in the FA Trophy.
International
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
England | 1959 | 5 | 2 |
1960 | 6 | 9 | |
1961 | 4 | 5 | |
1962 | 10 | 6 | |
1963 | 9 | 8 | |
1964 | 8 | 6 | |
1965 | 5 | 2 | |
1966 | 7 | 5 | |
1967 | 3 | 1 | |
Total | 57 | 44 |
England's goal tally listed first.
Honours
A.C. Milan
Tottenham Hotspur
- FA Cup: 1961–62,[40] 1966–67[53]
- FA Charity Shield: 1962,[42] 1967 (shared)[149]
- European Cup Winners' Cup: 1962–63[47]
- Football League First Division runner-up: 1962–63[44]
England
- FIFA World Cup: 1966[135]
- British Home Championship: 1959–60 (shared), 1960–61, 1963–64 (shared), 1964–65, 1965–66; runner-up: 1962–63, 1966–67[150]
Individual
- Ballon d'Or third place: 1963
- Football League First Division top scorer: 1958–59, 1960–61, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1968–69
See also
- List of English football first tier top scorers
- List of footballers in England by number of league goals
- List of men's footballers with 500 or more goals
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Works cited
- Greaves, Jimmy; Scott, Les (2004), Greavsie: The Autobiography, ISBN 0-7515-3445-5
Further reading
- Greaves, Jimmy (1979), This One's On Me, Readers Union, with Norman Giller
External links
- Media related to Jimmy Greaves at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website