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Jimmy Greaves (deceased) *Signature Value : £35 | Former England footballing great. Jimmy Greaves was born in East Ham in London in 1940. His football talent was being spotted by a scout for Chelsea. Jimmy Greaves made his debut for Chelsea in 1957 scoring in his first match. Having scored 124 League goals in only four seasons at Chelsea, Greaves moved to Milan at the start of the 1961/62 season. Jimmy made his England debut against Peru in May 1959 and scored 44 goals in 56 internationals for England, twice scoring four times in a match. Jimmy Greaves returned to England and in December 1961 the Tottenham manager Bill Nicholson paid a British record transfer fee of £99,999 to take Jimmy Greaves to White Hart Lane. Jimmy Greaves scored 21 goals in 22 League matches during what remained of that season. The following season he scored 37 goals in 41 matches - a club record which stands to this day. He scored two goals in the European Cup Winners Cup Final in 1963 and won an FA Cup winners medal against his old club Chelsea in 1967. In March 1970, Greaves moved to West Ham as part of the deal which saw Martin Peters move to Tottenham. Jimmy Greaves retired from football in 1971. He died in September 2021. |
Artist Details : Gary Keane |
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Gary Keane Gary Keane is one of the leading sporting artists in the UK. He initially worked as a freelance illustrator on various newspapers in Fleet Street, working for 20 years at the Daily Mail producing illustrations for the section called Focus on Fact and also The Gary Player Golf Strip for the Sunday Express. Gary Keane also produced illustrations for advertising, and finished artwork for various book publishers, including Penguin, Corgi, Transworld and many others through Artists Partners, a major UK arists agency. As his career moved forward he received a number of commissions for sporting paintings and many turned into limited edition sporting prints including artwork of leading sports stars such as Sir Alex Ferguson, Michael Atherton, Ian Wright, Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Stirling Moss, Jimmy Greaves and Ellen MacArthur. More about Gary Keane |
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