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The former England striker Jimmy Greaves, one of the game's greatest goalscorers and characters, has died aged 81, his old club Tottenham Hotspur announced on Sunday.

The former England striker Jimmy Greaves, one of the game’s greatest goalscorers and characters, has died aged 81, his old club Tottenham Hotspur announced on Sunday.

His strike rate was phenomenal as he scored 357 goals in England’s top flight, a record which still stands.For Tottenham, he returned 266 goals in 379 appearances between 1961 and 1970. The 37 league goals that he netted in the 1962/63 season has yet to be bettered by a Spurs player in a single season.

Greaves began his career with Chelsea, scoring on debut in 1957 against Spurs — his 41-goal haul in the First Division in 1960/61 still stands as Chelsea’s record for a single season. A brief spell at AC Milan followed — where he netted nine times in 14 games — before he returned to England to join Spurs.

 

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