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	Jimmy Greaves \| Top Class Football Player Commentator\| Biograghy
		Greaves was a phenomenal striker, scoring on his debut for Chelsea in 1957.
		Greaves was the first-choice striker for the England team during the 1966 World Cup but suffered a leg injury during a game against France and had to be replaced.
		Greaves made a comeback at the age of 38, playing for Barnet F.C. in the then Southern League, playing from midfield he netted 25 goals and was their player of the season.
	sport.y2u.co.uk /Football_England/FAp_Jimmy_Greaves.htm (934 words)

	Jimmy Greaves profile
		As goal scorers go, Jimmy Greaves was simply the best, he thrived on scoring goals, with hat tricks being a speciality.
		Jimmy Greaves was a household name many years ago, but everyone who saw him play say that he was England's greatest ever goal scorer, and has still yet to be matched, and when you look at his statistics, they suggest as much - and you can't argue with the facts.
		Jimmy Greaves was a footballing genius, at a time when money and TV rights were not a major factor in the game, and the boots and the ball were not the subject of millions of pounds worth of scientific research.
	jamesb007mi6.tripod.com /genius/greaves.htm (733 words)

	Jimmy Greaves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greaves was a phenomenal striker, scoring on his debut for Chelsea in 1957.
		With Spurs, Greaves won the FA Cup in 1962 and 1967, scoring against Burnley in the former.
		Greaves also worked frequently for TV-am as a TV critic and was a resident team captain on ITV sports quiz Sporting Triangles as well as co-hosting the popular Saturday morning kids TV show, The Saturday Show.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jimmy_Greaves (855 words)

	Spurs Odyssey - Feature on Jimmy Greaves
		Greaves was born at the height of the worst winter in a 100 years, although that was classified information at the time.
		Greaves' chances seemed to have disappeared when he was taken ill with hepatitis B after the game, in which he had scored twice, against West Bromwich Albion on 30th October 1965 and Greaves did not reappear in the Spurs side until 29th January 1966.
		Greaves' heart was broken by his omission from the Final and the seeds of his descent into an alcoholic hell can be traced directly back to that decision.
	www.spursodyssey.com /articles/greaves.html (2371 words)

	'I lost the seventies completely' \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		Jimmy Greaves was one of the finest footballers of his era - until he drank himself into hospital, saw his marriage fail and went bankrupt.
		Jimmy Greaves is on home ground - the Holiday Inn, Brentwood, on the fringes of his beloved east London and close to his new home in Chelmsford.
		Greaves was a phenomenon, a star as big in his day as Owen or Beckham, but it was all a long time ago and, thankfully, he doesn't play the prima donna.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,1028854,00.html (1739 words)

	::: THE OFFICIAL JIMMY GREAVES WEB SITE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jimmy Greaves Touring Britains Theatres Live With Special Guest & Compere Terry Baker.
		He works closely with 9 of the victorious 1966 team and also with Jimmy Greaves.
		The book itself is full of great info on the players & the games of the 66 campaign with lots of personal insight into the players themselves from Terry who knows them well.
	www.jimmygreaves.net (253 words)

	TheFA.com - Greaves the great
		Jimmy Greaves was one of the most prolific goal poachers of his time.
		Greaves began repaying his huge transfer fee in typical fashion with a hat-trick on his debut against Blackpool and thereafter the goals continued to flow with a predictable regularity.
		Greaves won The FA Cup for the second time in 1966/67 as Spurs beat former club Chelsea 2-1 in The Final.
	www.thefa.com /England/SeniorTeam/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2005/03/EnglandLegends_JimmyGreaves.htm (474 words)

	Jimmy Greaves - Football After Dinner Speaker The Edge Entertainment Agency
		Jimmy ended the 1962-63 season by breaking the Spurs` scoring record that was held by Bobby Smith.
		Jimmy also won the European Cup Winners` Cup in 1963 and, naturally, was on the score sheet, netting twice as a 5-1 triumph over Athletico Madrid that saw Spurs become the first British side to claim a European trophy.
		It`s testimony to the impact of Jimmy made on British football that it was a common cry amongst boys, the length and breadth of the country, that a goal scored in playground football was usually followed by the remark, `who do you think you are, Jimmy Greaves`.
	www.theedge-uk.com /jimmy_greaves.htm (609 words)

	Roy of the Rovers.com - The Official Roy of the Rovers Website
		Not surprisingly there was outrage at Stamford Bridge when Jimmy was lured to Italy in the summer of 1961 for a fee of £80,000 having been promised untold riches by AC Milan.
		Jimmy excelled for England, too, overshadowing all other strike-rates with 44 goals in 57 matches; indeed, but for the strength-sapping jaundice that cost him four months of 1965-66, he would surely not have missed the final stages of the World Cup.
		Jimmy Greaves is admitted into the Roy of the Rovers Hall of Fame.
	www.royoftherovers.com /halloffame/greaves.htm (848 words)

	Jimmy Greaves Quotes
		Jimmy was a beautiful boy and his time on this earth was all too brief.
		Greaves: Not yet, but I hope to be incommunicado with him in a very short space of time." class="olympicslnk" >Ian St. John: Is he speaking to you yet?
		Greaves: Not yet, but I hope to be incommunicado with him in a very short space of time.
	www.quotesandpoem.com /quotes/listquotes/author/Jimmy_Greaves (243 words)

	Jimmy Greaves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Join the True Greats football community to read all about Jimmy Greaves, his memoirs and views, and those of the other players from the last 50 years of English football.
		Ex-players like Jimmy Greaves have joined this exciting resource because they want to be a part of the wider football community.
		Jimmy Greaves and many other ex-players and topics of interest to the football community can be found on True Greats.
	www.truegreats.com /Jimmy_Greaves.htm (392 words)

	The Gordon Poole Entertainment Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jimmy is a goal scoring legend and even scored on his debut for
		The unusual fee was designed to relieve Jimmy of the pressure of being the first £100,000 player.
		Jimmy made his International debut in 1959 and went on to receive 57 caps and in total scored 44 goals, he remains third in the all-time list of
	www.gordonpoole.com /speakers/JimmyGreaves.htm (218 words)

	Amazon.ca: Greavsie: Books: Jimmy Greaves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His gripping and characteristically humorous autobiography journeys from Jimmy's childhood in the East End, via his early career at Chelsea and his short and troubled stay at A.C. Milan, to his emergence as one of the great stars of sixties football while at Spurs and an outstanding England forward.
		Jimmy's record as a striker is extraordinary - he was the leading goalscorer in the First Division - now Premiership - for six seasons and during his playing career was never out of the top five.
		Jimmy Greaves was an outstanding forward for Chelsea, Spurs, West Ham and England before becoming a popular TV pundit (Saint and Greavsie).
	www.amazon.ca /Greavsie-Jimmy-Greaves/dp/0316726761 (373 words)

	Jimmy Greaves: Greavsie: Compare Cheapest Prices UK
		Greaves portrays an age of football that can be looked back on as a 'golden one', when attendances were massive and yet when players could mix with the fans in the local pub after a game.
		Greaves was a natural goalscorer of a very high-class, maybe the best in Europe of his era.
		Jimmy also looks at the social history involved in football, he examines how the philosophy of football has changed, and he discusses the metamorphasis of the beautiful game from a working class pastime to a multi-million pound industry.
	www.comparebookprices.co.uk /B/Jimmy-Greaves-Greavsie-(0316725293).htm (1226 words)

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		An early goal by Greaves, a wonderful second by Bobby Smith and a late penalty by Danny Blanchflower, secured a 3-1 victory for Tottenham.
		Opposing teams feared Jimmy's clinical finishing and Nottingham Forest had a particular dislike of him...he scored 29 first class goals against them, and netted four goals a game on three separate occasions.
		Jimmy played for England 57 times, scoring 44 goals, but went through the agony of being dropped by Alf Ramsey and replaced by Geoff Hurst in the 1966, 4-2 World Cup triumph over West Germany.
	members.lycos.co.uk /spursnews/jimmy.htm (586 words)

	Greaves Jimmy - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Greaves Jimmy - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Greaves, Jimmy (1940-), English footballer, the most prolific goalscorer of post-war times, and football commentator and television personality.
		Both scale and lamellar armour were taken over by the Scythians and the Greeks.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Greaves_Jimmy.html (109 words)

	Spurs Legend - signed by Jimmy Greaves - Limited edition authentically signed sports memorabilia from Big Blue Tube (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jimmy Greaves was indisputedly one of the greatest figures to dominate British football in the 1960s.
		From whichever perspective Jimmy's distinguished career is viewed, there is no disputing that he has earned himself a foremost place in Tottenham's Hall of Fame.
		The genius of Jimmy Greaves is captured in this fl and white limited edition print of the striker as he whistles past the challenge of Leicester's Frank McLintock at White Hart Lane in 1962.
	bigbluetube.com /Products/Jimmy_Greaves_Spurs.aspx (694 words)

	TheFA.com - Archive
		It would be a travesty if Jimmy Greaves’ England career were remembered more for a game he didn’t play in rather than the many that he did.
		But when Greaves did play for England, he usually scored, amassing a hugely impressive tally of 44 goals in 57 games, including six hat-tricks – a record that stands to this day.
		After starting his playing career at Chelsea, Greaves had a short spell overseas with AC Milan in 1961, but didn’t settle and signed for Spurs in December of that year.
	www.thefa.com /England/SeniorTeam/Archive/?pf=p&i=2234&ap=p&searchname=greaves (304 words)

	::: THE OFFICIAL JIMMY GREAVES WEB SITE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Every couple of years a new English goalscoring sensation bursts onto the scene and without fail the press ask, 'is this the new Jimmy Greaves?' After all these years it's Jim, not Gary Linaker or Clive Allen or Michael Owen or Ian Rush that they get compared to.
		This is because, over a long period Jimmy was the most consistant reliable British goalscorer ever.
		One of the all time greats of English football, the greatest most consistant goalscorer of his or any other generation, Jimmy Greaves deserves to be, and is remembered with love and affection by all true lovers of the game.
	www.jimmygreavesofficial.com /appraisal.php (400 words)

	Chelsea Legends History: Gianfranco Zola, Jimmy Greaves, Peter Osgood - SoccerPulse Community
		Arrived at Chelsea in November 1997, turning in a series of devastating displays which eventually won him the Player of the Year award for the 1996/97 season.
		After the Abromovich revolution, Zola returned home to Italy to end his career, having agreed a deal with a lower profile Italian side, he decided to honour it and not stay on at Chelsea, a clear example of what a legend and gentleman he is.
		James Peter 'Jimmy' Greaves (born 20 February 1940) was an English football player, and more recently a television pundit.
	www.soccerpulse.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=6891 (1824 words)

	Tottenham Hotspur Jimmy Greaves Caricature
		Jimmy Greaves was a natural goal scorer, scoring 44 goals in 57 England appearances and thrilling the spurs fans with his deadly accuracy.
		He was unfortunate to miss out on England's World Cup victory in 1966, being replaced by Geoff Hurst because of injury.
		When he ended his career he successfully changed over from playing football to being a television pundit.
	www.sportcartoons.co.uk /jimmygreaves.html (61 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| Losing my son puts missing World Cup final into perspective
		Although few sporting celebrities inspire such universal affection, Jimmy Greaves is genuinely astonished when humans, or aliens, recognise him.
		The tragic loss of his four-month-old son, Jimmy jnr, to pneumonia in 1961, was followed by the disappointment of 1966 when he lost his striker's role to Geoff Hurst in a World Cup in which his replacement achieved immortality and a knighthood.
		Then came the brutally honest admission of his descent into alcoholism, when age took the edge off his unique talents and the cheers on the terraces fell silent.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2005/10/05/sfnrp05.xml (420 words)

	Jimmy Greaves - The Ultimate Predator
		Only a couple of weeks earlier, Spurs manager, Bill Nicholson, had rescued former Chelsea goal scoring phenomenon, Jimmy Greaves from his ill-fated sojourn at AC Milan.
		The previous week at Home Park, Plymouth, Jimmy had made his debut in the famous white shirt, appearing in a Combination match.
		The Plymouth crowd was over twelve thousand, and their Chairman, Ron Blindell, through the loudspeakers said: "On behalf of Plymouth Argyle, Devon, Cornwall and last, but not least, the whole of England, I say to you welcome.
	www.mehstg.com /reeljgre.htm (659 words)

	Jimmy Greaves West Ham United
		Jimmy is the 3rd highest scorer of goals for
		Jimmy appears on Mike Bassett (TV series), and has a new book out called 'Heart of the Game', see
		Jimmy was one of England national side's youngest ever players, see
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /bob.dunning/jgreaves.htm (94 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Have Your Say \| Q&A: Jimmy Greaves
		Greaves is one of England's finest ever strikers, scoring an incredible 44 goals in just 57 international appearances.
		Jimmy, if you were playing nowadays in the Premiership, who would you play for and why?
		And congratulations to LGB of Enfield who wins a copy of Jimmy's autobiography Greavsie for posing this question.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/sports_talk/3097148.stm (1175 words)

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