Whats St. John done?Used to love on the ball and Saint & Greavsie despite St. John who is a cnut.
Read his autobiography and it’s a powerful read, he documents his descent to alcoholism unflinchingly and also his slow road back. On the footballing side he says his objective was to pass it into the net, going for vision and accuracy.Anyone read the books he wrote years ago about a player called Johnny Groves (!) who was an alcoholic? Wonder who that was based on... Used to get them from Darnley Library back in the early 80s.
In the early days of s & j , the time gap could only have been 10-15 years between how his looks totally changed.Saddened by this, get well soon Greavsie.
Always thought that young jimmy greaves and old jimmy greaves looked like 2 completely different people
Greavsie, one of the very, very few of England's International players I liked, respected and appreciated.
I also reflect on Saturday, 31st October 1987 and the Saint & Greavsie show at lunchtime on network TV. Scottish football was not shown live outside of Scotland then. Ian St John introduces the goals from the Scottish League Cup Final played the previous Sunday. A magnificent game, Rangers v Aberdeen ends 3 v 3 then 5 v 3 to the Gers on pens after ET which St John acknowledges was very exciting.
Cue Greavsie saying," I would have loved to see that final live" (instead of whatever drab English game was shown simultaneously). Then Greavsie goes on to say, "That final should have been shown across the whole UK network".
Not only could Greavsie play football he knew the game well as an analyst long after he retired, His opinions were comic but good value too on that football show which competed with the rather staid and serious BBC's Football Focus.
Finally,some good news.