article_snippet: Jimmy Greaves only took 11 years and 41 others - including Steffen Freund and Paul Allen - to come before the club
article_snippet: Depending who you speak to, the long wait is down to Jimmy Greaves declining the offers, or the club not forthcoming with Greaves declining the offers.
article_snippet: The truth lies somewhere in between, with Jimmy Greaves understood to have turned down informal invitations in the past but accepting, according to sources close to the former striker, their first formal request last week.
article_snippet: Ultimately, it doesn’t matter how Jimmy Greaves got there.
article_snippet: Jimmy Greaves is there now; number 42.
article_snippet: Despite claims to the contrary, Jimmy Greaves has been back to White Hart Lane on many occasions since Jimmy Greaves left the club in 1970.
article_snippet: Jimmy Greaves went back for the funerals of Bill Nicholson and Bobby Smith and launched Jimmy Greaves autobiography
article_snippet: Jimmy Greaves just likes watching games on the telly.
article_snippet: Now 75, Jimmy Greaves chooses not to attend football matches, preferring instead to enjoy football matches at home .
article_snippet: I don't go to games, I never ever have,’ Jimmy Greaves added.
article_snippet: Regardless of the rows or the disagreements or how Jimmy Greaves got there,