After Dinner Speakers: Jimmy Greaves, Melvin Bragg, Dennis Learey
Jimmy Greaves began his football career with Chelsea in 1957 and went on to play for AC Milan, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham. He played in over 500 games and scored over 357 fotball league goals which is a tremendous record. Jimmy represented England 57 times before retiring very early in 1971 at the age of 30.He is recognised as the greatest goal scorer of modern times having scored more 1st Division goals than any other player, topping the goal scoring chart a record 6 times and winning an FA Cup meda with both Spurs and West Ham.Jimmy is now a well known media figure and TV star who is widely remembered for his TV partnership with Ian St John, and he ia also a columnist with The Sun newspaper. An extremely well known face and wonderful after dinner speaker.