To be clear, we are not approaching another Jimmy Greaves moment. The England, Tottenham and Chelsea legend was, according to those who watched him, the greatest English finisher ever, but schoolchildren are handed down the take of how he sat on the bench at the 1966 World Cup Final as Geoff Hurst became a hat-trick hero, global legend and later a Knight of the Realm.
Greaves's misfortune was to sustain a cut on the knee, miss the quarter-final against Argentina in which Hurst scored and have a manager, then plain old Alf Ramsey himself, unwilling to change a winning team.
