IN HIS OWN WORDS
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As Jimmy Greaves gets ready to celebrate his landmark 80th birthday tomorrow, a nation prepares to celebrate with him. The greatest goalscorer in the history of English football and a Spurs Legend in the truest sense of the word, Greavsie is loved by everyone regardless of their allegiances. Tonight, the Club are joining in with the birthday celebrations and here, in this interview adapted from the Tottenham Hotspur Opus, we hear from the man himself on life at Spurs from start to finish…
IN HIS OWN WORDS
How did you feel when Spurs came in for you?

Jimmy: I was pleased. They were a great team, the best in England at the time. I felt that it would have been pointless going back to Chelsea because I wanted to move on. So that was it. Bill Nicholson brought me back to White Hart Lane for £99,999.

Did that one pound make any difference to you?

Jimmy: It didn’t make a blind bit of difference to me, no. Most people seemed to be under the impression that it was done for my benefit – to ease the pressure – but it wasn’t. The deal could have been for 10 million quid for all I cared. All I wanted to do was move to Tottenham Hotspur.

I think Bill didn’t want to be the first manager to pay that amount of money for a player, but it never made a scrap of difference to me – I didn’t get any of the fee anyway! So contrary to it being done to take the pressure off, I really couldn’t have cared less.

It was quite a return to English football. Over 13,000 people turned up to see you play your first game, a reserve team match against Plymouth...

Jimmy: I didn’t give that any thought to be honest, I just wanted to get the first game out of the way. I ran out onto the field and there were all these people there. I hadn’t played in the reserves before: I’d played for the Chelsea youth team and then went straight into the first team at 17. I thought that was the norm. The chairman of Plymouth even welcomed me onto the pitch!

And, of course, you scored a hattrick on your debut at White Hart Lane (against Blackpool). That must have got you off to a good start?

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