the wes 7,212 Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlueGuy 1,552 Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 For now... in 4 years time probably not. He is one of the greatest English player though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHOULO19 24,332 Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 For now... in 4 years time probably not. He is one of the greatest English player though.You think either will catch up him? I honestly doubt it. Messi is over 100 goals away and Ronaldo is 30 this season. Of course, the records can't be compared because of the completely different eras, though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhForAGreavsie 6,094 Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 If he stays fit it looks virtually certain that Messi will overtake Greavsie but Jimmy's records are remarkable all the same. For example, he scored 9 goals in 14 appearances for Milan at a time when Catenaccio was king, and when 1-0 was considered a high scoring game in Italy. His 41 league goals for us in 1960/61 (40 appearances) is still our single season record, and remember Greaves spent his entire Chelsea career carrying a relegation-calibre side virtually on his own. As soon as he left we were relegated. Wayne Rooney has now surpassed Greavsie's tally of goals for England but it took him an extra 44 games to do it. Forty-four!It saddens me sometimes that many Chelsea fans seem unaware that one of football's all-time greats was a youth product of this club, and that they frequently give a different answer to the one I offer when asked to name the best Chelsea player ever. Hazard? Wonderful, love him. Zola? Magical, love him. The King? Forever my favourite player, but the best? There really is only one answer to that question, and it's not even close. At his peak Jimmy Greaves was, by miles, the best at his position and would have been an almost unanimous pick for everybody's World XI. England's greatest ever goal scorer, arguably the best pure finisher who ever lived, Jimmy remains one of only two genuinely world class footballers to have come through at Chelsea.Oh for a Greavsie indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakey 36 Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Greavsie is the best forward England have produced since the second world war. I only saw him play for West Ham right at the end of his career but if you look at old clips of him for Spurs and England he was something special. If only Chelsea could have kept him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakey 36 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Gteavsie is the greatest forward this country ever produced Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulham Broadway 17,367 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Good news he is now out of intensive carehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32594079 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the wes 7,212 Posted November 19, 2015 Author Share Posted November 19, 2015 ON THIS DAY IN 1960: 20-YEAR-OLD JIMMY GREAVES BECOMES YOUNGEST PLAYER TO SCORE 100 LEAGUE GOALS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhForAGreavsie 6,094 Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 ON THIS DAY IN 1960: 20-YEAR-OLD JIMMY GREAVES BECOMES YOUNGEST PLAYER TO SCORE 100 LEAGUE GOALSSpending the whole of his career to that date playing for a relegation calibre team I might add. Simply the best - by a mile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the wes 7,212 Posted May 17, 2017 Author Share Posted May 17, 2017 Ronaldo broke greaves scoring record Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhForAGreavsie 6,094 Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 On 27/11/2014 at 6:51 PM, MrBlueGuy said: For now... in 4 years time probably not. He is one of the greatest English player though. One of the greatest of any nationality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhForAGreavsie 6,094 Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 7 hours ago, the wes said: Ronaldo broke greaves scoring record First of all, congratulations to Ronaldo. Those are remarkable numbers. It's a shame for Jimmy that he ruined himself with alcohol. As early as 1961 he was hitting the bottle to a degree which damaged his fitness. There's a story told of his time at Spurs when a teammate complained to Bill Nicholson that Greaves was, "Standing around on the half way line doing nothing again." The Spurs manager replied, "Yes, and when you score 40 goals a season you can go and stand there with him!" The truth hidden by that anecdote, is that Jimmy couldn't have worked harder even if it was his inclination. The booze sapped away his fitness and his record, as amazing as it is, does not do justice to his talent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the wes 7,212 Posted May 18, 2017 Author Share Posted May 18, 2017 TOP 10 SCORERS IN EUROPE'S 5 MAJOR LEAGUES 1. Cristiano Ronaldo | 368 goals 2.Jimmy Greaves | 366 goals3. Gerd Muller | 365 goals 4.Lionel Messi | 346 goals5. Steve Bloomer | 317 goals 6. Dixie Dean | 310 goals7. Delio Onnis | 299 goals 8.Gordon Hodgson | 287 goals9. Alan Shearer | 283 goals 10. Silvio Piola | 274 goals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhForAGreavsie 6,094 Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 On 17/05/2017 at 11:14 PM, the wes said: Ronaldo broke greaves scoring record Something else to remember about Renaldo's record compared to Greavsie's is the fact that when the Madrid striker broke Jimmy's record, he was already a year older (32) than the age at which Greaves retired (31). It was sixty years ago yesterday that the greatest footballer ever to grace this club was given his first team debut. Seventeen year old Jimmy Greaves made his first appearance away at White Hart Lane against Spurs. He scored of course. Here is a nice article from TOCWS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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