Would have been far more exciting to have been NEverton ... all those thrilling 'Not quite relegated' trophies ...
By the way, I don't give a ****te in the Kane debate, play him, don't play him, makes not difference to me. The only thing I do think sometimes and not just with Kane, what about trying something different, what about giving some up and coming kid a chance, some teams do it with older players. Pele was 17 when he won the world cup, Maradona 25....at 31 will this be Kane's last chance or will he get another and deprive some English Pele kid 20 years his junior a chance. Questions, questions, I don't know the answers, only fate does.
Greavsie played in all the World Cup group games so was deserving of his winner's medal - would also have fancied him to score in the final - and not just from the penalty spot ... Plus Greavsie won a couple of FA Cups with Spurs ... and the Scudetto in his one season at AC Milan... So no real comparison at all
Was thinking for Spurs specifically. Modric a wonderful player but did his best stuff once he’d gone.
It's still not really answered the question, IF Greavsie was todays Harry Kane who is todays Geoff Hurst that is going to replace him? Hurst has a pretty impressive trophy haul as well for club and country, also a good cricketer.....maybe Harry could take up Bowls.
Not sure he won much at either ... could have gone to Everton during those years ... and won nowt there instead.... Ka-boom shalaka....
Good point well made. Alf Ramsey played Hurst over Greaves, despite this being a controversial decision at the time (which paid off). Which is what actual managers do. Southgate would have just blindly picked Greaves anyway in the hope he got a penalty or something. And lost the final.
Hurst actually won quite a lot I didn’t know. FA Cup when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and the cup winners’ cup which is bigger than the Europey Conference.
Have a look at how often he scores in big games and you'll probably find more than 2 but I'm betting not many more and I haven't checked.
The Germans agree... Harry Kane has been criticised for his performances against Bayer Leverkusen and the Bundesliga's other top clubs. Harry Kane has been accused of being a flat-track bully by the German media after the England captain drew a blank in Bayern Munich's 1-1 draw with Bayer Leverkusen.1 Oct 2024
Didn’t he have a great record against Arsenal? Googled it… 39 goals and 9 assists in 81 games against the rest of the Sky Six. Quite good considering how dross Spurs were compared to the others for much of his career.
Was their cup final innit Kane played 30 games against Arsenal during his Spurs career and only ended up on the winning side 8 times.
Yeah but add in the number of throw-ins he won and multiply by the volume of drool coming out of his mouth in the post-match interviews in millilitres and you get to a huge number if we’re just changing things to suit an argument.
