NUMBER 10 – JIMMY GREAVES – FORWARD
A goalscoring phenomenon who joined Chelsea at the age of 16, bagged 114 youth team goals in his first 18 months at the club then proceeded to score 22, 37, 30 and 43 in his four seasons in the first-team before the cash-strapped board took the highest of many offers for the prolific marksman and sold him to AC Milan in the summer of 1961. No one in English football history has been such a cold-hearted and deadly finisher, he almost seemed to take sadistic pleasure in placing the ball a tantalising inch or so beyond the goalkeeper’s grasp at full stretch. He scored 100 league goals before he turned 21, and for Chelsea hit five in a game three times, four three times and seven ‘lesser’ hat-tricks.
