Jimmy Hill Has Passed Away

[stoneyboy]

RIP Jimmy.

Jimmy Hill: Former Match of the Day presenter dies aged 87

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35141430

[stoneyboy]

[Jip99]

R. I. P. Jimmy

A true icon of the game whose influence will be everlasting.

[stoneyboy]

Match of the day.

[Chicog]

Let the shitfight between the wife and the kids begin.....

[mxyzptlk]

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/day-Jimmy-Hill-helped-Bristol-City-avoid/story-28394587-detail/story.html

[StevieH]

RIP. achieved an incredible amount in his lifetime, improved the game immeasurably and all we did was take the piss out of his chin. what a top man.

[uptheos]

RIP. achieved an incredible amount in his lifetime, improved the game immeasurably and all we did was take the piss out of his chin. what a top man.

Agree 100% with the above. I do remember seeing him play in the same team as Johny Haynes, he wasn't bad always played in a long sleeved shirt. To me he is the voice of MOD, which brought so much pleasure to people when it started.

[Bredbury Blue]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/dec/19/jimmy-hill

Some man!

[Chicog]

Every single premiership player should send flowers to his funeral - it's thanks to him they are getting slightly more than 20 quid a week.

[smokie36]

RIP you cheeky English <deleted>.

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Jimmy Hill, who helped remove soccer wage cap, dies at 87
STEVE DOUGLAS, AP Sports Writer

Jimmy Hill, a former footballer, coach and union leader who ushered player-power and soaring salaries into the British game by masterminding the abolition of the maximum wage, has died. He was 87.

Hill's family said in a statement he died Saturday after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease.

Unmistakable with his beard and protruding chin, Hill was one of the most influential figures in British football history — not because of actions on the field but for what he did off it.

Toward the end of a 12-year, injury-curtailed playing career at London clubs Brentford and Fulham, Hill became chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association in 1957 and campaigned against a wage cap that stood at 20 pounds.

Four years later, Hill left the Ministry of Labour in London with a deal that gave footballers the right to negotiate the market rate. A threatened player strike was called off and England captain Johnny Haynes, a teammate of Hill's at Fulham, became the first 100-pound-a-week player.

"I was keen on working-class rights," Hill said in 2001 on the 40th anniversary of the biggest win of his football career. "But I wasn't really what you'd call a political animal."

After retiring because of a knee injury in 1961, Hill took over as manager of third-tier struggler Coventry and guided them into England's top flight — then known as the First Division — by 1967. He later became a director and chairman of the Midlands club and there is a statue of Hill outside its Ricoh Arena stadium.

Hill was also chairman at Charlton and then at Fulham, where he led a consortium to rescue the club from liquidation and steer it away from a merger with Queens Park Rangers.

His involvement in every echelon of football also extended to the television studio, where he was a respected commentator and presenter for the BBC and rival stations.

A qualified referee, Hill once left the commentary box during a match between Arsenal and Liverpool in 1972 to run the line when a linesman was injured.

-- (c) Associated Press 2015-12-20

[SantiSuk]

Hadn't realised that three points for a win in the world of football was also down to him.

You couldn't see someone like Shearer or Owen ever rising to those kinds of levels. Gary Neville maybe.

[NoshowJones]

R. I. P. Jimmy

A true icon of the game whose influence will be everlasting.

Was he not very negative towards Scotland? Scottish football was nowhere near as bad as it is now when Jimmy Hill was

in his prime. Did he not describe Celtic as a British team when they became the first British team to win the European Cup?

Then a year later, Manchester United were an English team when they won it.

[Macclad]

RIP Jim.......a huge influence on football,for the better,for many years.

[rijit]

No one person will ever change a game the way jimmy hill changed football in England. From getting rid of the 50£ a week maximum wage down to turning the programmes into magazine style they are today to the first English all seater stadium. he did the lot played managed. Chaired. owned ran the players union. He even turned commentary into presenting

Rip jimmy hill a true English football great

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