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thought those in charge would be desperate for the chance to celebrate a glorious part of their past.
It’s what the top clubs do. Manchester United have statues of Alex Ferguson and the ‘Holy Trinity’ of Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best outside Old Trafford.
Erected
Leeds have one of Billy Bremner. The same goes for Peter Os g o o d at Chelsea, while Manchester City have just erected statues of Vincent Kompany and David Silva. Statues remind people of icons of the past and symbolise the importance that person stood for during his or her life.
No- one has scored more goals for Spurs than Greaves, who plundered 266 in 379 games.
Six decades have now passed since Spurs last won the title and the London bridesmaids haven’t won a trophy of any description since 2008, yet Levy and his directors seem to think that all the success Greaves achieved doesn’t deserve permanent recognition.
It’s disrespectful not to grant Greaves that honour. But not even considering the prospect is downright shameful.
Greaves, who died this week aged 81, was the greatest striker England has produced and he belonged, in the main, to Spurs.
The club should be grateful he was one of their own and having a permanent memorial to the bloke is a decision even a halfwit would be able to make.
Yet Bill Nicholson had to win eight major trophies just to get a bust of himself put on display at the club, so what chance does Greaves have?
But Nicholson wouldn’t have won at least three of these trophies had it not been for the genius of Greaves in the first place.
Fathom
Sometimes the logic applied at Spurs is impossible to fathom. But this feels twisted in the extreme and makes them hard to like and respect.
Greaves will never be forgotten, but why take the chance?
In years to come people will be born Spurs fans and grow up never having heard of him.
A statue would leave those same people in no doubt as to his standing in footballing history. left)