Jimmy Hill

Harry Palmr

One of the legendary figures of the game has passed away at 87 years.

Player, union leader, manager, club chairman, pundit.

Cass

One of the greats of the football world and a true ambassador of the sport.

RIP Jimmy Hill.

Skid X

Among many other things he was the first person to advocate three points for a win, and largely responsible for the abolition of the Maximum Wage many years ago.

Not many players go on to have such a wide variety of roles in the game. RIP.

Harry Palmr

A nice bit off wiki

In 1972. Arsenal were hosting Liverpool at Highbury on 16 September, when linesman Dennis Drewitt pulled a muscle and was unable to continue. FA rules state that the match could not be completed without a referee and two linesmen, so the game was in danger of being abandoned. The matchday announcer put a message over the loudspeaker asking if anyone was a qualified referee and would volunteer to run the line. Hill was a qualified referee and had been at Highbury that day as a spectator. He quickly donned a tracksuit before stepping in for the injured Drewitt

Ken.

Just looking at wikipedia and am very surprised he only managed the one team. RIP.

Grid.

A great character....RIP Jimmy!

5starpool

One of the most iconic figures from the football world, sad news.

mirwillbeback

Often a figure of fun to those unaware of his contribution in shaping the game we now know and love.

Appeared to be a true gent, sad to see another icon of growing up departing.

Kristopherus

RIP to a true legend.

Modern day football is littered with egotists and money grabbagers. So for those of us who remember that football was invented before 1992, the death of Jimmy Hill along with the passing of Howard Kendall some months back is a sad closure to a wonderful era when football was laden with men who lived and breathed the game.

Fr Tod Umptious

He had such a reach in the game, player, chairman, mamager, union man, pundit, qualified ref.

I'd imagine he would lose and find some of this generations pundits with his knowledge of so many aspects of the game.

Beefy78

Hard to imagine an individual who had more of an impact on football across the World. Hell of a player too apparently. RIP Jim

Beasty

It's only looking back now you can get to appreciate the influence he his had on the game at pretty much all levels - as a player, getting the minimum wage abolished, as a manager taking Coventry to the old 1st Division for the first time (then promptly resigning!), as a Chairman steering Fulham away from oblivion.

He'll probably be remembered most as a broadcaster which is where he became the butt of many jokes but, quite literally, took them all on the chin!! However his knowledge of and passion for the game was 2nd to none, and he was a true visionary who helped shape the game as it currently is

gandalf

RIP

I grew up watching him on MotD. He seemed like a really genuine man and extremely enthusiastic about his football.

Ken.

I know its too late now but the more I read about him the more I think he would have been a brilliant president of FIFA.

Skid X

Another Jimmy Hill innovation was the football panel of 'experts'. He was the LWT Head of Sport when he realised putting several opinionated football people in a studio would make for good Television. He put this motley crew together for ITV.




http://www.anorak.co.uk/368877/sports/footballs-10-most-offensive-pundits.html/

Skylinehead

ken wrote: »

I know its too late now but the more I read about him the more I think he would have been a brilliant president of FIFA.

He had his own "incidents":

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

Still a great fella mind, don't get me wrong. Sunderland fans don't like him :pac:

kksaints

ken wrote: »

I know its too late now but the more I read about him the more I think he would have been a brilliant president of FIFA.

He was involved with some unpleasentness with the Ron Atkinson racism incident that would probably rule that out.

dfx-

Pretty much the face of football for 30+ years from a broadcasting point of view.

niallo27

His chin was famous, it seemed to get bigger the older he got

Berserker

gandalf wrote: »

RIP

I grew up watching him on MotD. He seemed like a really genuine man and extremely enthusiastic about his football.

Loved him to bits and was so sad to hear of his passing yesterday. Player, linesman, pundit and a man who always acted in the best interest of the game.

Ken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntfslrhajAg

Forward to about 55 seconds.

Beefy78

Berserker wrote: »

Loved him to bits and was so sad to hear of his passing yesterday. Player, linesman, pundit and a man who always acted in the best interest of the game.

Randomly he also wrote the club songs at Coventry and Arsenal

ken

ken wrote: »

Forward to about 55 seconds.

Its hard not to watch a video like that and not romanticise about the way football was
Terry Mancini looking directly at Brian Moore in the commentary box was gas.
Some real characters playing football then. Marsh and Besty's celebration, and that theme music for the big match is every bit as iconic as the MOTD theme.

Zebra3

One of the first advocates of all-seater stadia.

Serious negative against him.

Richard Hillman

I hope something serious and permanent is done to remember him. I would like them to name the League Cup Trophy after him. They can still call it the coca cola/Carling/Milk Cup but the trophy will be the Jimmy Hill Trophy. It would be appropriate considering what he has done for the professional game.

The children of the future should be asking about who Jimmy Hill was and discovering what he did.

He was one of the greatest people ever to be involved in the game.

Richard Hillman

Richard Hillman wrote: »

I hope something serious and permanent is done to remember him. I would like them to name the League Cup Trophy after him. They can still call it the coca cola/Carling/Milk Cup but the trophy will be the Jimmy Hill Trophy.

The children of the future should be asking about who Jimmy Hill was and discovering what he did.

He was one of the greatest people ever to be involved in the game.

Arguably the most innovative man since Herbert Chapman

Skid X

I enjoyed the BBC tribute to Jimmy Hill this week. Plenty of good stories and archive clips, some funny anecdotes and interesting observations about the man and his work.

It is repeated on Saturday at 1pm on BBC One.

Texas Jack

One of the greatest people who ever lived. In History. Ever

Beefy78

Skid X wrote: »

It is repeated on Saturday at 1pm on BBC One.

Right in time for lunch in the First Test Match. Jimmy would have approved.