Manchester City’s draw at the Santiago Bernabéu against Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League Semi Final first leg earlier this week keeps alive the possibility of a Premier League team in the Final for the fifth time in the last six seasons.

It's entirely fitting that the family of the late Jimmy Greaves should have been so warm and generous about Harry Kane breaking his all-time Tottenham Hotspur scoring record yesterday - for Greaves was a warm and generous man.

Statistics tell you something about the fabled goalscorer Jimmy Greaves, who died yesterday aged 81.

Former England striker Jimmy Greaves, a member of the squad that won the World Cup in 1966, has died at the age of 81.

Back in the day, as they say today - it was the late 1980s as I recall - a young lad of about 10 approached me in the street and asked for my autograph. I was somewhat taken aback, as I was hardly on the A-list. 

In his book Football, The Golden Age, John Tennant collects "extraordinary images from 1900 to 1985". One of them, photographer unknown, shows Ipswich Town players in January 1939 relaxing in the team bath after losing 2-1 at home to Aston Villa in an FA Cup third round replay. Of the nine pictured, three have cigarettes hanging from their mouths.