Hughes also had further sporting pedigree as he played for Tottenham alongside Jimmy Greaves. Hughes explained on his website that he changed O'Sullivan's nickname but it didn't stick. He said ...

Jimmy Greaves joined Spurs from an unhappy spell in Italy after the Double season but became as popular as any player at the club and his record of 266 goals remained a Spurs record for decades.

That record is held by Chelsea, Tottenham and West Ham great Jimmy Greaves, who scored 357 goals in 516 games in the old First Division between 1957 and 1971. The closest active player to this ...

In an epic 15-year spell with the club, Marcelo won the confidence of a sequence of coaches—the notoriously difficult-to-please José Mourinho among them—and made 546 appearances, a quite remarkable ...