Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham run champions Leicester close in last season’s Premier League, and Spurs fans will be hoping that their side can go one better this time around.

And they’ve made a solid if unspectacular start to this campaign as they look to end a 55-year wait for the top-flight title.

Spurs are the only unbeaten side left in the Premier League having won five and drawn six of their first 11 games, although they could really have done with turning some of those draws into victories as, despite their unbeaten start, they are already five points adrift of leaders Liverpool.

Nevertheless, Spurs have proved to be tough to beat so far in the league this season, although the same cannot be said of the Champions League, where they have won one and lost two of their opening four group games.

They will need to get a result in Monaco next week to keep their European campaign alive, although they’ll hope to end a run of four straight league draws before then when they host West Ham on Saturday.

With international football disrupting the regular season, we at Shoot! have taken a look at Spurs’ history, and selected their TOP THREE strikers of all time…

3) Martin Chivers

There have been several excellent strikers at Tottenham down the years, with Jermain Defoe, Teddy Sheringham, Robbie Keane, and Gary Linekar all with decent arguments for a top three position.

However, because there are so many, goals have to be the determining factor, and Martin Chivers scored more than the above four.

What’s more impressive is that Chivers had to follow Jimmy Greaves, Spurs’ all time record goal-scorer, but it was a challenge he was up to, netting 174 goals in 367 appearances for Tottenham.

Chivers was Spurs’ top-scorer for four successive seasons from 1970, and played a big part in the side’s League Cup successes in 1971 and 1973, as well as their UEFA Cup triumph in 1972.

2) Bobby Smith

Bobby Smith was Spurs’ all time top goal-scorer before Greaves came along.

Smith was an integral part of the Tottenham side that recorded three top three finishes in the 1950s, before going one better and winning the First Division for just the second time in the club’s history in 1961.

He scored a remarkable 208 goals in just 317 games for Spurs, including 30 plus in four successive seasons, and it’s figures like that, and indeed trophies to match, which deservedly places him in the top three.

1) Jimmy Greaves

Tottenham’s record goal-scorer, and comfortably the best striker the club has ever had, is Jimmy Greaves.

He too had big boots to fill having seen what Smith did before his arrival in 1961, but Greaves was clearly unfazed, netting 30 times in 31 games in his first season, and then an incredible 44 in 49 the season after.

Twice an FA Cup winner and runner-up in the First Division in 1963, Greaves was Spurs’ top-scorer for nine successive seasons from 1961, and his tally of 44 in the 1962/63 season ties with Chivers as the most a Tottenham player has ever managed in a campaign.

Greaves left Spurs 1970 having scored 266 goals in 379 appearances for the club, and nailing down his spot as one of the greatest strikers this country has ever seen.