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Author: Jimmy Greaves
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 074811338X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The autobiography of football icon Jimmy Greaves James Peter 'Jimmy' Greaves was one of the greatest footballers to have graced the English game, a goalscorer of legendary prowess. 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 Premier League) for six seasons and during his playing career was never out of the top five. There are darker aspects too: the bitter disappointment of failing to make the World Cup-winning team of 1966, and the battle against the alcoholism that followed his retirement from the game. This book is both Jimmy's story and the story of football in the golden era of the fifties and sixties before money changed the game. It is populated by the great players whom Jimmy played with and against and animated by wonderful anecdotes about the game. It is an account of how football was then and how it has changed.
Author: Jimmy Greaves
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 074811338X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The autobiography of football icon Jimmy Greaves James Peter 'Jimmy' Greaves was one of the greatest footballers to have graced the English game, a goalscorer of legendary prowess. 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 Premier League) for six seasons and during his playing career was never out of the top five. There are darker aspects too: the bitter disappointment of failing to make the World Cup-winning team of 1966, and the battle against the alcoholism that followed his retirement from the game. This book is both Jimmy's story and the story of football in the golden era of the fifties and sixties before money changed the game. It is populated by the great players whom Jimmy played with and against and animated by wonderful anecdotes about the game. It is an account of how football was then and how it has changed.
Author: I John
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 112
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James 'Jimmy' Peter Greaves MBE, born on 20th February 1940, in Manor Park, east London, England, UK then brought up in Hainault, Essex was a professional footballer who played as a forward. He's England's 4th-highest international goalscorer with 44, including a record 6 hat-tricks, Tottenham Hotspur's highest scorer with 266, and the highest scorer in the history of English top-flight football with 357 goals. He finished as the 1st Division's top scorer in 6 seasons, being inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame. Jimmy began his professional career at Chelsea during 1957 then played in the following year's FA Youth Cup final. He scored 124 First Division goals in just 4 seasons before transferring to A.C. Milan for £80,000 in April 1961. His time in Italy wasn't happy, so he returned to England with Tottenham Hotspur for £99,999 in December 1961. Whilst playing for Spurs he won the FA Cup during 1961-62 then 1966-67, the Charity Shield in 1962 & 1967, plus the European Cup Winners' Cup during 1962-63, the year that Greaves came closest to winning a league title, as Tottenham were runners-up. He moved to West Ham Utd in a player-exchange in March 1970 then retired the following year. After 4-years away from the sport he returned to football at the non-league level, despite his alcoholism. During a 5-year spell he played for Brentwood, Chelmsford City, Barnet, and Woodford Town before permanently retiring from the game during 1980. Jimmy scored 13 goals in 12 England under-23 internationals followed by 44 goals during 57 full England internationals from 1959 - 1967. He played in the 1962 & 1966 FIFA World Cup finals, but was injured in the group stage of the 1966 World Cup, losing his 1st team place to Geoff Hurst, who kept Greaves out of the first team in the final. Although England lifted the World Cup, Jimmy wasn't given a winners medal until a change of FIFA rules during 2009. He was also part of the squad that came 3rd in UEFA Euro 1968, although he didn't play in the finals.
Author: Norman Giller
Publisher: Fastprint Publishing
ISBN: 9780954324391
Category : Soccer goalkeepers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Jimmy Greaves
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 0748112200
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Saint and Greavsie, sport's most loved double-act, have entertained millions of people over the years - first on the football pitches of their respective clubs and countries, then later together on the nation's television screens. They've collected a vast array of stories along the way from fellow sportspeople and pundits: some comical, some crazy, and most downright unbelievable, but all of them thoroughly entertaining. In Saint and Greavsie's Funny Old Games the duo have reunited to tell the very best of these anecdotes in their own unmistakeable style. Containing tales from the dressing-room, secrets about some of the world's biggest stars, and amazing facts from across the sporting spectrum, this hilarious book is the perfect read for any sports fan.
Author: David Tossell
Publisher: Pitch Publishing
ISBN: 9781785314902
Category : Soccer players
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Jimmy Greaves remains the greatest goalscorer in English football history with 357 top-flight goals, although his England career was defined by the heartbreak of missing the 1966 World Cup Final. After slipping into the grip of alcoholism, he reinvented himself as a popular TV personality. Natural is the definitive biography of a sporting legend.
Author: James Morgan
Publisher: BackPage Press
ISBN: 095649711X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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NOMINATED FOR BEST FOOTBALL BOOK OF 2010 IN THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS Updated second edition True greatness does not feel the need to proclaim itself from the rooftops. It is happy to state its case quietly, yet with utter conviction. Alan Gilzean was a truly great footballer. Every observer of his talent confirms this as an indisputable fact: from the legendary Jimmy Greaves, who regards him as the best striker he ever played with, to Don Revie, the former Leeds United and England manager, who described the former Tottenham striker as the best touch player in Europe, and Spurs fans whose spine-tingling refrain, Gilzean, Gilzean, Born is the King of White Hart Lane, continues to echo down the generations. It is now 36 years since Gilzean retired from professional football and his life and times have become shrouded in mystery and rumour. All that exists are the memories of his greatness ... but how long before even those are forgotten forever? After fans on Tottenham Hotspur online forums claim that Gilzean is living as a down-and-out, James Morgan, a lifelong Spurs fan and sports journalist with The Herald, Scotland's leading quality newspaper, is filled with a fierce desire to separate fact from fiction and sets out on a journey In Search of Alan Gilzean. The facts of his illustrious career are down in black and white: 169 goals for Dundee, including 52 in one season, a record that stood until Henrik Larsson broke it in 2001; a league championship medal with the great Dundee team of the early 1960s; then, a move to Spurs in December 1964, where, over the course of the next decade, he forms unforgettable partnerships with Greaves and Martin Chivers. Gilzean's greatness shines like a beacon, but where is the rest of his story? Morgan soon discovers that a sprinkling of newspaper cuttings, a Wikipedia page and idle internet chatter, are all that exist of a life less ordinary. The Scottish Football Association Hall of Fame website included a Swede, Larsson, and a Dane, Brian Laudrup, but no Gillie. Dundee FC has named lounges after former players who are not fit to lace Gilzean's boots. Spurs haven't heard from him in years. Former team-mates are none the wiser. One of the best British strikers of his generation is a forgotten man. Morgan's desire to change this, and find out the full story, takes him on an exhilarating personal journey all over Britain. From Gillie's birthplace, in the small Perthshire village of Coupar Angus, to Dundee, London and beyond, he leaves no stone unturned. Initially, Gillie hovers in the shadow before emerging as a fascinating and complex character whose natural reticence has obscured his legacy. Morgan's portrait of the original King of White Hart Lane restores him to his rightful place in football folklore and stands as the only faithful testimony to the life of a bona fide British football legend.
Author: C. Joseph Greaves
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408831112
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
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Lucile Garrett is just thirteen when she meets Clint Palmer, a charismatic stranger who will forever change her life. The year is 1934, and as the windblown dust of the Great Depression rakes the Oklahoma plains, Palmer offers Lucile and her father, homeless and hungry, the irresistible promise of a better future.But when they follow Palmer to Texas, Lucile's father mysteriously disappears, launching man and girl on an epic journey through the American Southwest: a spree of violence and murder that culminates in one of the most celebrated criminal trials of the era.Based on a true story, Hard Twisted is a chilling tale of survival and redemption, and a young girl's coming of age in a world as cruel as it is beautiful.
Author: David Tossell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1780574657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Malcolm Allison is one of the most controversial figures of the last half-century of English football. Leader of the famed 'West Ham Academy', his playing career was cut short by the loss of a lung to tuberculosis. Disillusioned, he became a professional gambler before acknowledging that football was his calling. After humble beginnings as a coach, he began a celebrated partnership with Joe Mercer, turning Manchester City into one of the most stylish teams English football has produced. Along with the trophies came the birth of Big Mal, the larger-than-life personality who helped revolutionise televised football. He became instantly recognisable for his cigar and Fedora, and equally notorious for a string of affairs with beautiful women. As the dark side of Big Mal took over, he was banned for life from the touchlines, became embroiled in a series of boardroom battles and spent time in police cells and rehabilitation clinics fighting the effects of alcoholism. Yet despite the often-destructive effect of his Big Mal persona, Malcolm Allison retains his status as one of the most incisive minds to have graced the game. This book tells both sides of the story, tracing the life and times of one of the most charismatic characters in British sport.
Author: Jimmy Greaves
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780340960318
Category : Soccer managers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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JIMMY GREAVES scores again with a book that is essential reading for anybody who closely follows the Beautiful Game.
Author: Ian St. John
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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