If you were a child of the 60’s, you may well have heard the phrase “Who do you think you are, Jimmy Greaves?” as a youngster tried to score an amazing goal in the playground. 
In a 24-year career, Greaves scored an unbelievable 491 league goals, plus 44 goals in just 57 internationals, but due to injury earlier in the tournament and the subsequent form of one Geoff Hurst, Jimmy Greaves missed out on what could and should have been his finest hour, the World Cup final in 1966. It remains one of the most heartbreaking stories for one of England’s finest ever players.
As a goalscorer, Greaves was simply awesome. In 1960 he became the youngest player to score 100 league goals, and hit 200 goals by the time he was 23. He was the old First Division’s top goalscorer no less than six times in an eleven year period and he was also one of the first British players to have success abroad, scoring 9 goals in 12 games for AC Milan before returning home to Tottenham.
He would have been the first £100,000 player but Spurs boss Bill Nicholson paid £1 less so Greaves wouldn’t have the added pressure of being the first six-figure player in football.
He scored on every single debut he ever made – and won two FA Cups and a European Cup Winners’ Cup during his career. During his career, Jimmy Greaves was quite simply the best goalscorer in the world.