I never knew about Terry Dyson and the cigarettes http://www.footballfancast.com/2011...-player-catching-a-bus-becomes-headline-news?
he told that story when i went to see him here in Andover.he has a lot of funny stories and was well worth the entrance fee,plus he was my boyhood hero
My boyhood hero too - I'm so sad he has fallen out with the club, and hope the bridges can be mended before he dies.
That's nice to know TF, but he just won't go to club events and has refused to be in the Hall of Fame. He was missing from the Billy Nick tribute game, it was all so sad.
AFAIK, yes. He still refuses to be in the Hall of Fame, and still hasn't been to the Lane for a game, or indeed at all, for many, many years, AFAIK.
How long ago did that start, though? If it's nothing to do with Levy and co, then they should sort it out.
I don't know PNP, but it's been going on throughout Levy's time. For example, Greaves being conspicuously absent during the 'Billy Nick' tribute games, and steadfastly refusing to join the Hall of Fame, which I think is a 'Levy era' innovation. It certainly should be sorted out, and I have no idea as to the ins and outs of it, I just hope it isn't a question of money, because that would be ridiculous. The last time I remember seeing Jimmy at the Lane was for his testimonial, where inevitably he scored Doubtless he has returned since then, but I can't recall it, and these days it would be such big news, it's hard to think I've missed it.
If you look at a website called www.vitalfootball.co.uk there is an article called "An audience with Jimmy Greaves" where the answer appears to come from the horses mouth, as it were. Apparently, at these dinners, the player being inducted receives a glass decanter, and nothing more. The club, meanwhile charges £1300 per table to those wishing to attend. Greavsies' view is that this isn't right, and therefore he refuses to be inducted - apparently Steve Perryman has also refused for the same reason.
http://www.spurs.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=7500167 I'd have to agree with him. Sounds very unfair.
Yep, that's the story I've heard NSS, though Stevie P has now agreed to join. It's so sad that a question of money is spoiling JG's entry into the Hall of Fame. However, it's not just a question of that. That wasn't the sole reason presumably that Jimmy refused to attend the Billy Nick tribute game or the 125 years game, which were also hurtful absences.
TBH, GH. Reading the article, he sounds so pissed off with Spurs' attitude that I'm not surprised that he refuses to have anything to do with the club at the moment. To be fair, he does say that he virtually never goes to any football matches these days - and has very little to do with football generally. Surprisingly perhaps, he's a Rugby fan! and goes to most of Sarries home games.
I just think it's all very sad NSS, but obviously Jimmy has his reasons. I still think it's hurting him and the club that there's now such a rift between them, but that's life, etc.
Of course it's sad. Personally, although I've never met him, I remember him so well. My mates & I were behind the goal when he scored a spectacular overhead kick in his first game for Spurs, against Blackpoo. He got a hat-trick! Probably, to this day, the most naturally gifted finisher I've ever had the privelige to see. Oh how we could do with him, today! He once explained his goal scoring technique something along the lines of..."The goal is 8 yds wide & 8ft high. There's one goalkeeper. I just pass it into the empty bit" Sounds so simple when you put it like that.
I would love to have been there that day, I still remember the photo of it I had so vividly. It's strange with finishing, the goal is so big, but it's so hard to find it. VDV is the closest of our current crop I've seen to Greaves, like JG the goal gets bigger for Rafa when he's clear through on goal, for most players it shrinks. Actually with VDV and JD in such fine form, along with Ade, there's a few others from those Spurs teams of the 60s we need more than Greavesie in his prime, though he's always in my Spurs XI (up front with Jurgen these days). You'd always want Mackay of course, but I think if I could draft in just one from those days, then ATM it would be Mike England.
Even if he no longer has that much interest in the game, I'm sure that he'd still get a buzz out of the appreciation that our fans would show him if he were to return to WHL.
From those days, Greaves and Mackay without hesitation. Johnny White, Blanchflower, Cliff Jones, possibly. Mike England was little bit later. Maurice Norman was the man in his position, at the time.
