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Hoddle or Greaves?

Hoddle or Greaves

  • Hoddle

    Votes: 48 50.0%
  • Greaves

    Votes: 48 50.0%

  • Total voters
    96

buckley

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Sep 15, 2012
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I think this could be an age thing because if you had watched the greaves era football and the great Hoddle era football you would not really go against the greatest Jimmy Greaves much as I loved Hoddle its Greaves no argument
 

topper

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Jan 27, 2008
3,806
16,254
I can’t vote on this. I really can’t. I have seen both players live over many years at the Lane. A few meters away at times enough to see the sweat rolling down their faces. There’s a cats whisker between these two. Different players, different roles. Different eras. Both world class. Both Spurs royalty. Nuff said.
This
 

John48

Well-Known Member
Aug 31, 2015
2,249
3,143
Completely different types of player, now if you said John White or Hoddle you might have a debate.
 

buckley

Well-Known Member
Sep 15, 2012
2,595
6,073
The voting figures are affected because a lot of the people who would have voted Greaves over Hoddle having seen both .are no longer with us IE kaput dead. gone
 

John48

Well-Known Member
Aug 31, 2015
2,249
3,143
The voting figures are affected because a lot of the people who would have voted Greaves over Hoddle having seen both .are no longer with us IE kaput dead. gone

Take it from me I've seen both & as I say they're completely different players. One is an out & out goal scorer & whilst the other can score goals he was essential a provider of goals. Greaves would have loved to have play in a side with Hoddle in it, especially after John White was so unfortunately taken from us.

Simply not comparing like with like.
 

longtimespur

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Sep 10, 2014
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to vote on this you should be of an age to have seen the whole career of both and if you have lived that long I can't think of many if any who would not choose Jimmy he was the absolute best. Hoddle was brilliant if underused by several England managers.
The thing about greaves was that he had to put up with the likes of Chopper Harris ; Banks the animal full back for bolton ; Stan Crowther whose claim to fame was he broke the legs of five players ; Jimmy Schoular whose mantra was forget about the ball and get on with the game he was a Nasty individual.
But jimmy no matter how many times tackled from behind never but never retaliated and still mostly came out on top .The man was a genius.
Trouble is being of "That age" I can't remember everything about either of them :whistle: ?
 

Shelf59

Member
Nov 25, 2019
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unfortunately, I am of the age where I can say I have seen both play. Fortunately, I am also able to say I'm privileged to have seen both in action.

Bit of a silly poll in the sense it's like comparing apples and oranges. both geniuses but Jimmy was just incredible and could conjure goals out of nowhere. Glenn was a thoroughbred and had all the skills but he didn't ever frighten the opposition in the way jimmy did. Jimmy was just lethal in the penalty box and made scoring seem easy. I love both players but Jimmy was in a class of his own.
 

Spriggan

7 inches from the midday sun!
Jun 15, 2012
921
1,871
The voting figures are affected because a lot of the people who would have voted Greaves over Hoddle having seen both .are no longer with us IE kaput dead. gone

I saw them both, but I'm no longer alive either, they are both outstanding players in their own right, but from different eras playing in very different teams.
 

Gassin's finest

C'est diabolique
May 12, 2010
37,353
87,819
The bloke who sits in front of me at matches has been going since the mid 60's, and he says Greaves is still the best player he has ever seen in the flesh.

From Eduardo Galeano's "Soccer in Sun and Shadow":

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Fergus

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Jun 5, 2004
718
1,317
Apples vs oranges as many others say. However, I once attended a function in Germany where Gerd Müller was a guest. I asked him who was the second deadliest finisher of all time in the penalty box. He said "me". When I asked him who was first he said "Der kleiner Engländer".
 
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