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Jimmy Greaves

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Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.


— Jimmy Greaves


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The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.


— Jimmy Greaves


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We are really the victims of our own problems.


— Jimmy Greaves


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We signed to play until the day we died, and we did.


— Jimmy Greaves


#did #died #play #signed #until






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In that 1960-61 season he scored 13 goals in internationals a record for an England player in any season which included England's 1000th goal in official senior matches against Wales at Wembley on 23 November 1960. Greaves was the first-choice striker for the England team during the 1966 World Cup but suffered a shin injury during a game against France and had to be replaced. C.

James Peter "Jimmy" Greaves (born 20 February 1940 in Manor Park East Ham England) is an English former football player and more recently a television pundit - famous for his trademark catchphrase it's a funny old game. Greaves was England's third highest international goalscorer the highest goalscorer in the history of Tottenham Hotspur football club and the highest goalscorer in the history of English top flight football.

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