James Peter 'Jimmy' Greaves is one of the greatest footballers to have graced
the English game, a goalscorer of legendary prowess. His gripping and
characteristically humorous autobiography journeys from Jimmy's childhood in the
East End, via his early career at Chelsea and his short and troubled stay at
A.C. Milan, to his emergence as one of the great stars of sixties football while
at Spurs and an outstanding England forward.
Jimmy's record as a striker is
extraordinary - he was the leading goalscorer in the First Division - now
Premiership - for six seasons and during his playing career was never out of the
top five. There are darker aspects too: the bitter disappointment of failing to
make the World Cup-winning team of 1966, and the battle against the alcoholism
that followed his retirement from the game.
This book is both Jimmy's story and the story of football in the golden era
of the fifties and sixties before money changed the game. It is populated by the
great players whom Jimmy played with and against and animated by wonderful
anecdotes about the game.
It is an account of how football was then and how it
has changed.