One of the less happy exports to Italy but certainly one of England's greatest ever forwards and goalscorer. Jimmy Greaves has died. His playing career came to an end just before I became interested in football as a child, and I got to know him through his work as a pundit and from various video clips. I may not always have agreed with his perspective, but I usually enjoyed his presentation. My condolences to his loved ones and friends, and may he rest in peace.
BBC obituary
Tottenham Hotspur tribute
Daily Mail report
the Times obit (subscription necessary)
Coverage in the Guardian includes:
a video obit
a life in pictures
a blog post by Richard Williams including this comment: "No one ever came up with a better phrase to describe Greaves's dominant characteristic than the late football writer John Moynihan, after watching Tottenham Hotspur play Slovan Bratislava in the quarter-final of the old European Cup Winners' Cup under the White Hart Lane floodlights on a spring night in 1963. Spurs won 6-0, 6-2 on aggregate, and Greaves scores with what Moynihan described as 'devastating nonchalance'."
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