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The best Spurs team of all time - centre forward

Who was the second best centre forward to play for Spurs?

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milo

milo

Jack L. Jones
A quick recap of what we're doing

Right. The best Spurs team of all time.

We'll have a different thread for each position over the coming weeks. The thread will be open for a while for nominations and the most frequently mentioned players will be going into a poll on the same thread.

The team will line up 4-2-3-1. Modern style.

Anyone who comes into the thread, doesn't read what we're doing and posts their full best team of all time, gets laughed at.
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The team so far looks like this.

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Our last position up for grabs - centre forward.

Who you think is best? A poll will be added when it looks like we have a few players to pick between.
 
Klinsman, Greaves, Chivers, Defoe, Berbatov, Klinsmann, Bobby Smith, Cliff Jones, Clive Allen...

There are some names to get us going. I think that the winner should be Greaves. I will post more later.
 
To me it's realistically only Lineker, Klinsmann and Allen who can give him a run, but we all know that there can and will only be one winner....
 
Vivian Woodward.

63 goals in 132 appearances in his 8 seasons at Spurs (1901-09).
29 in 23 England games, a record that stood for 47 years.
57 goals in 44 England amateur matches (44 of those goals were in matches recognized by FIFA, but not the FA).
Captained Britain to Olympic gold in 1908 and 1912.

After Spurs he moved to Chelsea, but joined the 17th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment during WWI and reached the rank of captain. Having joined Spurs after our FA cup win, he was given special leave to join Chelsea at Old Trafford for the 1914/15 Cup Final when Bob Thomson was injured. Thomson recovered and Woodward refused to play and deny Thomson his chance to play in an FA Cup final as Woodward had not played in any of Chelsea's matches in their run to the final.

He was wounded on the western front in 1916, but made a brief return to football with home town club Clacton Town after the war.
 
Jordinho said:
Vivian Woodward.

63 goals in 132 appearances in his 8 seasons at Spurs (1901-09).
29 in 23 England games, a record that stood for 47 years.
57 goals in 44 England amateur matches (44 of those goals were in matches recognized by FIFA, but not the FA).
Captained Britain to Olympic gold in 1908 and 1912.

After Spurs he moved to Chelsea, but joined the 17th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment during WWI and reached the rank of captain. Having joined Spurs after our FA cup win, he was given special leave to join Chelsea at Old Trafford for the 1914/15 Cup Final when Bob Thomson was injured. Thomson recovered and Woodward refused to play and deny Thomson his chance to play in an FA Cup final as Woodward had not played in any of Chelsea's matches in their run to the final.

He was wounded on the western front in 1916, but made a brief return to football with home town club Clacton Town after the war.
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That's all well and good but he's no Iversen
 
another position where we have been blessed, we've had some true greats of the game line up at centre forward, Woodward, Smith, Hunt, the Duque, Gilllie, Allen, Lineker, Teddy, Klinsmann, Berbatov, Keane to name just a few, I'm sure you can add a few more of your own

one man stands above all of those, a step up, a man who at his peak was the best forward in the world, an unstoppable player when the mood took him, which it regularly did, that man's name is Martin Chivers

sadly for big Chiv, we were also lucky enough to have had the greatest goal scorer of all time play for us, and my vote will go to him

but it won't surprise me at all if Jimmy gets benched with Dyson and Blanchflower
 
Greaves, obvs. Can someone post the goals, games and ratios for Lineker, Klinnsman, Greaves, Smith etc please?
 
Greaves should and will win. I've been thinking and come up with 11 who I'd consider worthy:

Greaves
Chivers
Smith
Allen, Les
Archibald
Crooks
Allen, Clive
Klinsmann
Lineker
Berbatov
Keane
 
milo said:
I don't see how we can consider Klinsmann given how short his time at the club was.
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68 games over two spells. That's more than some of the players who have featured on shortlists IIRC (Ziege, Rose, similar to vdV)

Also 1 of maybe 3 genuine world class players we've ever signed (Greaves, Ardiles and him)?
 
Bullet said:
Greaves, obvs. Can someone post the goals, games and ratios for Lineker, Klinnsman, Greaves, Smith etc please?
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Not sure that's that helpful. Old football used to be harder - i.e. leagues were more competitive. Remember we lost 7 league games during the double season. Draws were more common too with only 2 points for a win.
 
Gutter Boy said:
Not sure that's that helpful. Old football used to be harder - i.e. leagues were more competitive. Remember we lost 7 league games during the double season. Draws were more common too with only 2 points for a win.
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There were more goals though...
 
galeforce said:
not in this company

maybe one day
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Not in the company of Greaves and the like sure but I think Kane's credentials stack up pretty well against the likes of Klinsmann and Berbatov. It may seem like Kane only got into the team yesterday but he's already played more and scored more for Spurs than either of those two.
 
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