Sven Roeder 11:34 Mon May 4
Jimmy Greaves in intensive care
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After suffering severe stroke
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Northern Sold
8:57 Fri Jun 12
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That's a great piece Eddie.... love this bit...
Miserable goal celebrations — the finger to the lips — just confuse him and as a spectator he enjoys other sports more. The nuances of a good Test match, that unique blend of skill and brute physicality that can be found in rugby. For someone who played through the Ron Harris era, Jimmy — like many of his age — finds football’s play-acting a turn-off.
He tells a story about somehow leaving the villainous Harris flat out with a late tackle. It was a bad one and he thought he could be sent off. Harris was still lying there when the referee called Jimmy over. With that, he sprung up and ran to the referee. ‘Don’t send him off, I’m fine, it was an accident,’ Harris pleaded. Jim recalls that as the ref put his book away, the defender known as Chopper turned to him with an evil look in his eye. ‘You b******, I thought,’ said Jim. ‘I know why you want me to stay on.’
‘I won’t tell you where I played the rest of the game,’ he added, ‘but I became very good friends with our goalkeeper.’
Ha Ha Ha!!
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Northern Sold
8:49 Fri Jun 12
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Fantastic news .... all the best Jimbo
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Oliver Cromwell
8:48 Fri Jun 12
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Must be a saint looking out for him
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Private Dancer
8:16 Fri Jun 12
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Great news. Absolute legend.
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ted fenton
2:41 Fri Jun 12
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Funny old game
All the best sir
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Eddie B
2:39 Fri Jun 12
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Good news
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Spandex Sidney
2:38 Fri Jun 12
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Been released from hospital today, big improvement but still a lot of rehab ahead but surely the worst is over.
Good luck Greavesie
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neilalex
4:17 Thu May 7
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Yes, pleased for him, hope he makes as a full recovery as is possible.
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Far Cough
3:31 Thu May 7
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Out of IC now
Well done Jimmy, all the best
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Alvin
5:47 Tue May 5
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Nice to read all these posts. He always made it look so easy, seemed to have all the time in the world, then... ping.
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Far Cough
12:58 Tue May 5
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Great write up, some people don't really know how fucking good Greaves was
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Eddie B
12:46 Tue May 5
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Great article here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3067837/Jimmy-Greaves-truly-great-player-man-salute-now.html
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Private Dancer
7:21 Tue May 5
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''The thing that I've always liked about him is he is very modest and self-effacing when it's clear for all to see that he was perhaps one of the greatest goalscorers football will ever see''
Agree. I use to think the same thing. You wouldn't have thought he was the greastest goalscorer we have ever produced.
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Coffee
7:19 Tue May 5
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Meeow.
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Hugh Monteith
7:14 Tue May 5
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*car rally.
*old mate
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Hugh Monteith
2:45 Tue May 5
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I love the story of Jimmy in a cat rally in south America upon hearing about MOORo being arrested and secured in a hotel room .
Drove to the hotel and climbed in to have a beer with his pld ate.
I can't remember if it was on the internet or TV.
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eusebiovic
2:24 Tue May 5
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The thing that I've always liked about him is he is very modest and self-effacing when it's clear for all to see that he was perhaps one of the greatest goalscorers football will ever see...
Plus, I'll never forget that episode of S&G when Margaret Thatcher tried to introduce I.D cards to football and Colin Moynihan was sports minister...On live T.V at 1.30pm he has a ventriloquists puppet on his knee and shoved a red card right up it's backside to tell everyone what he thought about the scheme!
St.John was pissing himself laughing...even more than usual...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFvM5clOHNA
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Jack La Lanne
11:27 Mon May 4
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Chilly Jocko land!
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Far Cough
11:26 Mon May 4
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Greaves and Gilzean, were deadly for Spurs, Jimmy got the goals on the floor and Alan Gilzean, got all the headed goals
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Northern Sold
11:22 Mon May 4
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Too young really to have seen him play... seen all the tv stuff... speaken to loads of oldies... me old man was a friend of his back in the day and always said he was our Gerd Muller... bloke I sit next to a work a big time old school Yid his two idols was Greavsie and Dave McKay... not been a good month or so for him... keep up the good fight Jimbo
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On The Ball
8:56 Mon May 4
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FWIW, I don't have a problem with him being praised. Never saw him play obviously, but I've seen plenty of videos - he was obviously brilliant.
Goals to games ratio he is surely the best ever, I just prefer Bobby Charlton. The likes of Rooney obviously aren't fit to be mentioned in the same sentence.
Them again when I was young I thought Bobby Moore scored the hat-trick in the WC Final, so what do I know?
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