Jimmy Greaves condition improving after suffering stroke

Former England and Tottenham striker Jimmy Greaves is "feeling good" as he recovers from a severe stroke.

The 75-year-old was admitted to intensive care on May 3 but left hospital just over a month later and is now in a rehabilitation unit.

Greaves, who also suffered a minor stroke in 2012, received messages of support from across the football world after it emerged he had been hospitalised and he is now determined to get as well as he can.

"I should be dead," he told the Sunday People. "But I'm here and I'm fighting fit. Now I want to live until I'm at least 90.

"Hopefully there's a few years left in me yet.

"I've promised my -grandkids I'll go and watch them play rugby and hockey when they go back to school so I've got to get better."

He added: "I'd like to be a bit better but I'm taking -every day as it comes and I'm feeling good. I'm much better than I was. I'm -getting my speech back and I can move my right leg now.

"I haven't got any feeling in my right arm but my left arm and hand are absolutely fine so I can still sign my autograph perfectly.

"I'm a long way from -being back to my best and I don't know -whether I can ever get back to it, but I'm determined to do everything I can. I'm a fighter.

"Every day is a new day. The doctors reckon after a year if something isn't working it'll never work.

"I've got another nine months until then and I've come on a lot already so hopefully it'll come."