I had the immense pleasure of watching Greavsie play for Spurs on many occasions. The way he floated over the pitches that often more resembled the muddy Somme battlegrounds was like watching a graceful ballet dancer with the killer final ball usually just stroked gently into the net after leaving defences in tatters. My all time favourite player above any other in the world. Simply magical.
I only saw Greaves play once - my dad took me to London specially to see him at Spurs. Greatest natural finisher ever, in my humble. Scored with both feet and his head, always in the right spot, deadly with timing and coordination.
Brilliant composure on the ball. Made it look easy - which it isn't. What a player he was, and what a fine man in overcoming his problems to become a much-loved TV personality. Speaks volumes for the man.
Jimmy Greaves really did have it all. Pace, skill, athleticism, great vision, super football brain. If you consider the quality of the pitches, the ball that was used and the boots that were used it really puts him into context. He would go for £100M in todays market without question.
Jimmy scored in my first game at WHL (1968 Leeds 2-1), my second game (1969 ManCity 1-3), goalless in my third game, his last at WHL as a Spurs player ( 1970 Palace 4th round FA Cup) and the last time I saw him play, a goal for West Ham at WHL in 1970 when everyone in the crowd cheered a goal against Spurs because it was Jimmy Greaves. We loved him and always will.
Jim was an amazing finisher, but the provider of the final pass on so many occasions was Alan Gilzean, who passed away in 2018. A quiet man but what vision and precision of his passing and heading to put the ball in the perfect spot for Jim to score. Happy Days they were at 'Red Hot Lane' ! RIP Jim and Alan.
Beautifully clean striker of a ball. Brilliant technique body over the ball when he hits them. Never seems to snatch at chances. He also had that mad change of pace that defenders hate. He effortlessly goes up a gear and can change direction instantly. Just a quality footballer really.
Late to the comments but if only a goal against Leicester had been televised. The greatest goal I have ever seen in the flesh. Jimmy got a hat trick that day in the late 60s at the Lane. Spurs 3.0 up were pegged back to 3 goals to 2 and almost contrived to give it away. Some things never change.
RIP Jimmy, phenomenal finisher & your TV duo with Sainty(RIP)brings back so many happy memories. I'm sure your both up there now entertaining them all.
The best English goal scorer I ever saw. One of the most remarkable things about him was how two footed he was. He just took the ball how it came and never had to adjust his body position to take it on his ‘good’ foot.
A Greaves tale. The late and tragically killed Tottenham player John White (perhaps in a moment of youthful exuberance) moaned to captain Danny Blanchflower, "Greaves spends eighty minutes loitering on the halfway line most matches." Blanchflower replied "When you score 30+ goals a season you can join him on the halfway line"!
i was present for one of his exhibitions of loitering on the halfway line. He picked up the ball and dribbled around the entire Leicester (might have been Stoke) team , leaving just Gordon Banks, who ended up on his arse while Jimmy rolled the ball into an empty net. 5 mins standing ovation for the best goal never to have been televised.
Philip Paine - A variation on that story is that one day at a team meeting, one or two players moaned that Greavsie didn't tackle or defend enough, and so on. Bill Nick asked if anyone fancied scoring 25-30 goals a season. They all shut up.
The times that the fans called out ^ come on Greavesie get in the game^ but the he always got on the score sheet with one or two. Funnily enough when he took his kit off at the end of the match it was still as immaculate as when he put it on! I was lucky enough to see him loads of times, a truly remarkable man, I cherish his memory.
When you see the skill he and the other players showed on these terrible pitches, it makes you appreciate them even more! Current overpaid footballers wouldn’t stand a chance! What a man!
I love the goal at 00:40 which starts with Spurs giving George Best the runaround in their own half and ends with Greavsie scoring a goal worthy of Best at the other end.
Really enjoyed the video. In the 1960s I was a paperboy and on a Sunday morning would stop and read about how Jimmy had scored in just about every paper even the Scotsman. Good days I dont think we had Match of the Day every week.
Jimmy was my school boy hero, modelled my game on his. Now I watch my 7 year old grandson model his game on his hero Harry Kane. He taps the ball over the line turns and runs off to celebrate, such joy.
Bloody beautiful. The word I was thinking while I was watching this was “finisher”, and I’m glad others agree! I think modern strikers have, and should, taken lessons from him.
As a QPR fan for over 50 years . The goal at 0.42 against Man Utd . Where he turns the defender and cuts through to score . I think its Ian Ure or Sadler . He turns . Is still one of the greatest goals ever .
Such a shame that so many of these clips are old, faded and almost unwatchable. If only the modern video technology were available in the 60s/70s. An absolutely amazing man and a goal scoring machine.
He scored a total of 366 goals in top-flight football but sad to say none of the 18 goals in the above video quite recapture what was his real genius: his extraordinary knack of being able to somehow dance through a ruck of defenders in the box and come out the other side with the ball still at his feet. In truth it would sometimes look like he'd lost momentarilycontrol as he jinked and shimmied his way through but then all of a sudden he would emerge goalside of those now mesmirised defenders before deftly placing beyond reach of the goalie. In nearly 70 years of watching top flight football I've witnessed only one other player consistently capable of executing such exceptional control, and that player is none other than Lionel Messi.
@@jimmelton5846 True, but if greaves were 50 years younger, he would have adapted with the times accordingly to play at the highest level. i.e would have been as fit through modern training regimes at top clubs today.
Last month been watching Saint & Greaves moments on RUclips along with Brian Clough clips .Three proper football men who played the game when it was Beautiful Game ,played by men whom Terraces no matter stadium respected their greatness Terrace Knighthood made Sir Saint ,Sir Clough & Sir Greaves & that compliment meant more than a day out Buck Palace with Queen .How real footy people mourn their loss 3 characters & entertained both On/Off Pitch .I was lucky I got watch every Saturday Lunctime Saint & Greavsie Show . By far better, funnier never let you down ,respected by all within game always got exc access with hilarious opinions . Now take seat at Football Genius Table besides Busby ,Stein, Shankly, Clough & Taylor with Maradona playing keepy up with bunch off grapes RIP FELLOWS GREATNESS TRUE LEGENDS .
No current English players do this now. Only a handful can play like this & only one player can do this well today - Lionel Messi. Maradonna, Cruyff & Best were masters. Jimmy just took it a step further in his day - magic! We miss you JG.
I was lucky enough to see Jimmy at Chelsea where I believed he scored his finest goals. Against Preston with Tom Finney playing his last of 3 goals was the greatest goal I ever saw in my 79 years where from his own half he beat 6 defenders and the Preston players clapped him back to the centre circle and Finney shook his hand. The all- time greatest goal scorer, pure genius
And to think that jimmy at times may have been half cut, he did like a drink, and who doesn’t, I remember seeing him running round a rugby pitch while I was playing, there was Jim trying to get fit, that was way back in 1974. England’s greatest ever striker without a doubt. RIP SIR Jim 🙏🙏
Why is there no film of Jimmy Greaves at Chelsea. As a Fulham FC supporter I would go to Chelsea every other week, and the greatest player I have ever seen was Greave’s , and that includes our own Johnny Haynes. Jimmy scored wonder goals at Chelsea, I do think he was better at Chelsea than he was at Spurs, for one he was faster at Chelsea.
Not a Spurs fan by any means but Greaves is the greatest pure “ finisher” I’ve seen in 60 odd years of watching English football.
@Dan James Why?
@Dan James No they're not.
Neutral here (the username gives it away): Jimmy Greaves was the best striker ever, certainly since I’ve been watching football (60 years).
@Dan James shouldn’t you be playing COD ?
@john banwell 🤣
I had the immense pleasure of watching Greavsie play for Spurs on many occasions. The way he floated over the pitches that often more resembled the muddy Somme battlegrounds was like watching a graceful ballet dancer with the killer final ball usually just stroked gently into the net after leaving defences in tatters. My all time favourite player above any other in the world. Simply magical.
The way he used to glide over those muddy pitches was incredible. RIP Jim.
What a world class player. RIP Greavsie. From a Man U fan.
Why do you have to say 'from a man utd fan?'... cringey
@@danny6_6_6 Because I know tossers like you would bite.😉
RIP Jimmy. An absolute genius of a player ⚒️
44 goals in 57 England appearances... & not one penalty ! Maestro
in fairness to kane he's scored his tally and spent half his time inside his own half.
And he took the corners.
@@davec8730 Given their different roles, it is easy to imagine them both playing together.
@@aaropajari7058 spurs would have had a title or two, or dropped greaves for not tracking back.
The greatest goalscorer ever. The man was a genius. RIP Greavsie, you were untouchable.
Greatest English goalscorer ever.
Greatest English striker of that era.
Rip jimmy im spurs fan from ireland never saw you play but my dad did and he said you were the best ever
Martin Allen and your dad was right
I only saw Greaves play once - my dad took me to London specially to see him at Spurs. Greatest natural finisher ever, in my humble. Scored with both feet and his head, always in the right spot, deadly with timing and coordination.
The best striker to ever play English football
@Dan James 44 goals in 57 games for England and not a single goal from the penalty spot... Who in your opinion was better?
@Peter Burry Played when they had rock hard heavy footballs and strikers would get kicked to shit, if he played now he'd be unstoppable
@@jimmynich4791 say it again
The balls have always been the same weight only heavy when wet.
What a man. My hero in the 60's. God bless you.
Mine too!
What a player! By far England's best ever goalscorer. My condolences to his family. RIP
Greaves was simply the best striker I ve ever seen.He was just magic.
Brilliant composure on the ball. Made it look easy - which it isn't. What a player he was, and what a fine man in overcoming his problems to become a much-loved TV personality. Speaks volumes for the man.
Leeds fan here. Jimmy ,the greatest English goalscorer of all time . Loved watching him as a kid. His ratio if scoring will never be beaten
Forest fan here, he always scored against us.Fabulous goalscorer.
Legend of a player and also hosted possibly the best footy show of all time. RIP Sir.
And he played with the old heavy ball. Every header a sure fire headache or sore neck. Pure talent one of the greatest of all time.
When this man was born they not only broke the mould, they tore down the factory and flattened the street it was situated in. Their work was complete.
Great comment
Jimmy Greaves really did have it all. Pace, skill, athleticism, great vision, super football brain. If you consider the quality of the pitches, the ball that was used and the boots that were used it really puts him into context. He would go for £100M in todays market without question.
Jimmy scored in my first game at WHL (1968 Leeds 2-1), my second game (1969 ManCity 1-3), goalless in my third game, his last at WHL as a Spurs player ( 1970 Palace 4th round FA Cup) and the last time I saw him play, a goal for West Ham at WHL in 1970 when everyone in the crowd cheered a goal against Spurs because it was Jimmy Greaves. We loved him and always will.
Jim was an amazing finisher, but the provider of the final pass on so many occasions was Alan Gilzean, who passed away in 2018. A quiet man but what vision and precision of his passing and heading to put the ball in the perfect spot for Jim to score. Happy Days they were at 'Red Hot Lane' ! RIP Jim and Alan.
Good comment. I never would have remembered Alan Gilzean unless you had mentioned him - but you’re absolutely right, of course.
Both players where outstanding, and they gave brilliant performances
They were called The G Men.
Best English striker ever, goals/games rate unmatchable. How much would he be worth in modern football? £150-200m easy.
Probably more ,he had better trickery than neymar ,speed of mbappe and as clinical as Halaand or Kane
@@michaelday7556 which is what I'm saying in many ways ,also comparing him to today's players who play on bowling greens compared to him
@@McFlashh adjust your glasses mate that last goal alone blows you statement out of the water!
@@McFlashh Bore off
@@McFlashh Have you any idea how bad the pitches were back then, or how brutal the defenders were?
Beautifully clean striker of a ball. Brilliant technique body over the ball when he hits them. Never seems to snatch at chances. He also had that mad change of pace that defenders hate. He effortlessly goes up a gear and can change direction instantly. Just a quality footballer really.
Best by a country mile and not a dive in sight . Except yo head the ball
The greatest English goal scorer of all time.
The man had no peers.
A true genius.
A natural goalscorer.He made it look easy.
Always thanked the assist 👍🏻👍🏻 Don’t get that so much nowadays. A genius.
Late to the comments but if only a goal against Leicester had been televised. The greatest goal I have ever seen in the flesh. Jimmy got a hat trick that day in the late 60s at the Lane. Spurs 3.0 up were pegged back to 3 goals to 2 and almost contrived to give it away. Some things never change.
RIP Jimmy, phenomenal finisher & your TV duo with Sainty(RIP)brings back so many happy memories. I'm sure your both up there now entertaining them all.
Jimmy Greaves and his foot machine, everybody's going to see a sensation. RIP Jimmy x
Gosh what a player. A pure footballer.
Supported spurs for 72 years Jimmy was the best! If Kane is valued at 150 million what price Jimmy? Probably 250 million
He was a ruthless finisher and hunted on his own....that's what gives him the edge over other strikers.
He wasn't just great he was the greatest RIP JIM
Rest in power Jimmy. You were simply the greatest .
The best English goal scorer I ever saw. One of the most remarkable things about him was how two footed he was. He just took the ball how it came and never had to adjust his body position to take it on his ‘good’ foot.
Look at his control and making space he’s up there with the gods of football a master technician
A Greaves tale.
The late and tragically killed Tottenham player John White (perhaps in a moment of youthful exuberance) moaned to captain Danny Blanchflower, "Greaves spends eighty minutes loitering on the halfway line most matches." Blanchflower replied "When you score 30+ goals a season you can join him on the halfway line"!
like that story made me smile in this sad time =)
i was present for one of his exhibitions of loitering on the halfway line. He picked up the ball and dribbled around the entire Leicester (might have been Stoke) team , leaving just Gordon Banks, who ended up on his arse while Jimmy rolled the ball into an empty net. 5 mins standing ovation for the best goal never to have been televised.
@@barclayfleming.7776 I do, I was there too! Happy days 😊
Philip Paine - A variation on that story is that one day at a team meeting, one or two players moaned that Greavsie didn't tackle or defend enough, and so on. Bill Nick asked if anyone fancied scoring 25-30 goals a season. They all shut up.
The times that the fans called out ^ come on Greavesie get in the game^ but the he always got on the score sheet with one or two. Funnily enough when he took his kit off at the end of the match it was still as immaculate as when he put it on! I was lucky enough to see him loads of times, a truly remarkable man, I cherish his memory.
Greatest goal scorer the world has ever seen 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
First time I'm seeing his highlights.... Wow what a player
I love this guy.
When you see the skill he and the other players showed on these terrible pitches, it makes you appreciate them even more! Current overpaid footballers wouldn’t stand a chance! What a man!
Kane is one of our own but Sir Jimmy will always be the greatest at WHL.
I love the goal at 00:40 which starts with Spurs giving George Best the runaround in their own half and ends with Greavsie scoring a goal worthy of Best at the other end.
Really enjoyed the video. In the 1960s I was a paperboy and on a Sunday morning would stop and read about how Jimmy had scored in just about every paper even the Scotsman. Good days I dont think we had Match of the Day every week.
The original penalty box assassin, so deadly. RIP 🙏🏼 Jimmy
when Rooney passed greaves he took double the amount of games to pass him
Having had the pleasure of watching Jimmy Greaves on many occasion and getting his autograph,he was head &shoulders above Harry Kane
doesn't get talked about enough
He does in our house / circle of friends. Greatest ever spurs player
If jimmy was playing to day there not enough money in the country for any one to buy him just simply the best and my hero
he was the best finisher of his generation .. his record is as good as any of the worlds greats .. shame injury cost him so much
Yeh he should be seen as one of the greats. He’s quite clearly the greatest english player of all time and it isn’t even close.
A Legend
RIP Jimmy
What a header that first one was. Genius of a player
A Legend. RIP
RIP Jimmy Greaves .
Jimmy was my school boy hero, modelled my game on his. Now I watch my 7 year old grandson model his game on his hero Harry Kane. He taps the ball over the line turns and runs off to celebrate, such joy.
Bloody beautiful. The word I was thinking while I was watching this was “finisher”, and I’m glad others agree! I think modern strikers have, and should, taken lessons from him.
The greatest ! And I'm a gooner
The I'm a yid but Liam Brady was something else and Rocky Rocastle top player
Embarrassing
Amazing finisher, but damn was he fast with ball at his feet.
When he was in the penatly area only one outcome, genius natural goalscorer,RIP Jimmy.
As a QPR fan for over 50 years . The goal at 0.42 against Man Utd . Where he turns the defender and cuts through to score . I think its Ian Ure or Sadler . He turns . Is still one of the greatest goals ever .
he was prolific at chelsea too in short time ,ac milan still got good goal /game ratio lol in few games ,scored few west ham loved in london really
While he was with Chelsea, he reached 124 First Division goals in 4 seasons, including 111 before his 21st birthday.
Wish’d I’d seen him play - made it look so easy ⚽️
A little man with a big heart and big boots.
He was magic.
What a striker he was. The best ever. From a Burnley fan.
I was lucky enough to see him play when Spurs came to Newcastle, you can't teach what he could do, natural born predator, lethal
Such a shame that so many of these clips are old, faded and almost unwatchable. If only the modern video technology were available in the 60s/70s. An absolutely amazing man and a goal scoring machine.
I feel privileged to have seen Greaves play for Spurs, and many years later, to see Kane too!
Wow im blown away
He scored a total of 366 goals in top-flight football but sad to say none of the 18 goals in the above video quite recapture what was his real genius: his extraordinary knack of being able to somehow dance through a ruck of defenders in the box and come out the other side with the ball still at his feet. In truth it would sometimes look like he'd lost momentarilycontrol as he jinked and shimmied his way through but then all of a sudden he would emerge goalside of those now mesmirised defenders before deftly placing beyond reach of the goalie.
In nearly 70 years of watching top flight football I've witnessed only one other player consistently capable of executing such exceptional control, and that player is none other than Lionel Messi.
R.I.P 🙏🏼
If he hadn't got injured in 1966 he'd have got more than Rooney.
Rooney only got the record through sheer number of games. Imagine if Grieves had 100 caps. Hed be on almost 80 goals.
@@aaropajari7058 imagine if Greaves had played in the modern game, he may have even bagged 5 goals a season.
@@barclayfleming.7776 no point comparing apples and oranges, the game has come a long way.
@@barclayfleming.7776 thanks old boy.
@@jimmelton5846 True, but if greaves were 50 years younger, he would have adapted with the times accordingly to play at the highest level. i.e would have been as fit through modern training regimes at top clubs today.
Last month been watching Saint & Greaves moments on RUclips along with Brian Clough clips .Three proper football men who played the game when it was Beautiful Game ,played by men whom Terraces no matter stadium respected their greatness Terrace Knighthood made Sir Saint ,Sir Clough & Sir Greaves & that compliment meant more than a day out Buck Palace with Queen .How real footy people mourn their loss 3 characters & entertained both On/Off Pitch .I was lucky I got watch every Saturday Lunctime Saint & Greavsie Show . By far better, funnier never let you down ,respected by all within game always got exc access with hilarious opinions . Now take seat at Football Genius Table besides Busby ,Stein, Shankly, Clough & Taylor with Maradona playing keepy up with bunch off grapes RIP FELLOWS GREATNESS TRUE LEGENDS .
as an Evertonian would cross the park to anfield just to see Jimmy play , 4:04 pure genius . RIP Jimmy . Jimmy poss Liverpool
Jimmy Greaves for me the greatest player in a spurs shirt,wish we had you at spurs now RIP Jimmy
What a goal 0:53
no modern day footballer can ever compare these guys were ordinary men doing extraordinary things then on the bus home.
Greaves would score 50 in this era and even Kane isn't close
Kane couldn't carry Greavsie's jock strap!!!
He wouldn’t he’d be a championship player at best
Una maquina de hacer goles.
RIP most of the crowd too
R.I.P wonderful player.
He was the best instinctive striker I ever saw.
You haven’t seen Romario then
Great Player, I always called out his name when I played football in the park and scored, memory's memory's. COYI
No current English players do this now. Only a handful can play like this & only one player can do this well today - Lionel Messi. Maradonna, Cruyff & Best were masters. Jimmy just took it a step further in his day - magic! We miss you JG.
I was lucky enough to see Jimmy at Chelsea where I believed he scored his finest goals.
Against Preston with Tom Finney playing his last of 3 goals was the greatest goal I ever saw in my 79 years where from his own half he beat 6 defenders and the Preston players clapped him back to the centre circle and Finney shook his hand. The all- time greatest goal scorer, pure genius
Its a pity the BBC don't Remaster/VidFIRE their film footage and restore some clarity and life back to these recordings.
And to think that jimmy at times may have been half cut, he did like a drink, and who doesn’t, I remember seeing him running round a rugby pitch while I was playing, there was Jim trying to get fit, that was way back in 1974. England’s greatest ever striker without a doubt. RIP SIR Jim 🙏🙏
Rip legend
The goal against United was one of the best ever.
Quite Simply THE BEST EVER 👍👍👍
as a boy playing one of his quotes stuck in my head..."you dont have to hit the ball hard to score a goal"
Why is there no film of Jimmy Greaves at Chelsea. As a Fulham FC supporter I would go to Chelsea every other week, and the greatest player I have ever seen was Greave’s , and that includes our own Johnny Haynes. Jimmy scored wonder goals at Chelsea, I do think he was better at Chelsea than he was at Spurs, for one he was faster at Chelsea.
RIP Jimmy. Right up there with The Beatles, and everyone’s favourite Uncle.
Oh what memories.
Absolutely lethal, in front of goal.
If you needed a centre forward to play for your life, you'd send Greavsie.
His style was rolls-royce smooth..:)
Rip lord jimmy
Um Cracasso J Greaves 💯🥇⚽
Absolute nightmare for defenders and goalkeepers - basically unstoppable.
Great
The goal at Ibrox was different class. I'd never seen that one before