Jonathan Wilson

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3,871 appearances 25 recordings 7 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 1 Sep

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And he does think there's a problem with Greaves.

Greaves has been ill.

He's come back into the side.

He's nowhere near his best.

And he says...

No manager could afford to banish, so gifted a player from his World Cup plans, but Greaves at present is not doing the job for which he has chosen.

And I think this is really interesting.

This is the first time, so what we're saying, nine, ten months from a World Cup.

When journalists are beginning to think, maybe Greaves, and Greaves, don't forget, has scored hundreds of goals.

He's obviously a brilliant player, got a great first touch.

He's very popular, particularly with the London-based media.

I think he's widely regarded, even more than Bobby Charlton, as being England's best player.

I think in some sense, he probably is more naturally, technically gifted than Bobby Charlton.

But this is the first time that you start to see the doubts.

Brian James refers to Greaves as a pale spasmodic shadow, while Barham asks, how long can England wait for Greaves to recover his old scoring power?

But nobody at this point is yet saying, maybe we don't pick Greaves.

Maybe it doesn't matter how good he is, how good he was.

Maybe he's just not the right profile.

Well, Jimmy Greaves at this point is a lot younger than Neymar.

So, I mean, I take the point that Jimmy Greaves at this point is only 26.

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