Blue-eyed boy

WHEN a 17-year-old striker called Jimmy Greaves made his professional debut for Chelsea in August 1957, the thought of the London club shaking the foundations of the game to the very core would have been unthinkable.

The club Greaves began his career with was under the old school management of former Arsenal hero Ted Drake, still the only man to have delivered a League championship to Stamford Bridge but one whose pre-match team-talks only stretched as far as an 'All the best'.

Throughout his stay, Greaves said Drake and chairman Joe Mears were always pleading poverty and the fledgling forward doubled up in his early days as the club's office boy.