jimmy hill

[littletedwest]

Sad news liked the bloke. Interesting article about his alzheinmers the other week I read.his son said even before he was diagnosed looking back you could tell, in terms that he used stock phrases like "oh I'll give him the benefit of the doubt" and "hmm " rather than anything substantial

[Hand Shandy]

Every football commentator/pundit has Alzheimer's then!

 

Actually that would explain a lot...

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I wonder if he'll keep turning up Where's Wally?-style in Viz.

[G Richards]

He made his mark on the game more than most. The breadth of his involvement may never be matched - player, manager, chairman, broadcaster. I grew up watching him.

[Teflon Don]

[VladimirIlyich]

I thought he was a prick actually,but not to speak ill of the dead etc. Was partly responsible for all seater stadia and ergo stupid prices people now have to pay.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

He made his mark on the game more than most. The breadth of his involvement may never be matched - player, manager, chairman, broadcaster. I grew up watching him.

... players' union leader, stand-in lino, etc.

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

Ok, apart from: player, manager, chairman, broadcaster, players' union leader, stand in lino, 3 points for a win; what has Jimmy Hill ever done for us?

[magicrat]

I grew up with him as a kid watching MOTD and he used to bug the crap out me

When I got older and found our what he had done in the game he earned my respect.

 

We could do with few Jimmy Hills now to bring some sanity to the game instead of the Fletch and Sav gobshite generation 

[liverpoolsno9]

Was partly responsible for all seater stadia and ergo stupid prices people now have to pay.

How's that then? The Taylor report was responsible for that, something that every Liverpool supporter was in full agreement with. Just because he turned Highfield Rd to all seater years previously before turning it back again in 84 (?) doesn't mean he was responsible. The prices today are a combination of The Taylor report,The Premier League starting, Sky and football becoming what it is now, with all the glitz/glamour, 24 hour news, transfer dealine countdowns. Modern football is shit.

[torahboy]

Did well for himself and his fellow footballers. If I had been a member of the PFA at the time of the abolition of the maximum wage I would have been delighted with Cliff Lloyd.

 

Yet I still hear 'Good Old Arsenal', Coventry fans singing the 'Eton Boating Song' melody and see Hill in his fucking St George dickie bow. His Little England mentality later manifested into a pretty much UKIP political stance. He was also a complete fucking irritant when giving his views on a game.

 

He declared Dalglish to be a 'diver', winning penalties by cheating. After Keegan scored a beautiful lobbed goal against Leicester in the 1974 FA Cup semi final reply Hill declared that Shilton's white top allowed the Liverpool player to spot the goalie off his line. In the 1992 final against Sunderland an assault on McManaman in the penalty area was excused by Hill because the tackling player's leg was "in line with the ball". The latter spout of shite had Alan Hansen. Hill's co-pundit on the day, close to violence.

 

Just a few instances of the utter drivel Hill used to trot out on a weekly basis, confirming his position as the foremost 'voice of football'......at the BBC.

 

I thought he was a complete arse when it came to his views on the game.I furthered my loathing of Hill by buying his weekly magazine, 'Jimmy Hill's Football Weekly', once or twice. Naturally, it was shite but it's brief existence further advanced the image of one of the most shamelessly self promoting cunts the game had known up to that point. An amateur in that field compared to Beckham, yet in his day Hill generated just as much public ridicule.

 

I know that he championed the three points thing and advocated all sorts of minor rule changes, some of which came about, but the game changers were all at FIFA and not on the telly. The gentrification of the game came with the Sky generation at a time when Hill was consigned to his weekly breakfast show.Then Sky stopped paying for his croissants and Jimmy The Chin faded with his memories.

[VladimirIlyich]

How's that then? The Taylor report was responsible for that, something that every Liverpool supporter was in full agreement with. Just because he turned Highfield Rd to all seater years previously before turning it back again in 84 (?) doesn't mean he was responsible. The prices today are a combination of The Taylor report,The Premier League starting, Sky and football becoming what it is now, with all the glitz/glamour, 24 hour news, transfer dealine countdowns. Modern football is shit.

As Chairman of Coventry he was a vociferous proponent of all seater stadia as Coventry had it themselves and he was constantly using his position as a mouthpiece on MOTD to propose it,despite massive opposition by supporters through knowing that the prices would rise significantly,even in the pre Sky era.

Ok, so he isn't responsible for the twats at Sky poisoning the the game with sky high costs but he always pissed me off about it when he was alive so I'd be a massive hypocrite if I changed my stance now. 

To be truthful,I thought he'd passed away before now anyhow!

[manwiththestick]

His Sunday supplement show on Sky sports gave the previously unseen journos the platform but spout their shite on the telly aswell as in print form. Woolnough, Winter, Beasley, Holt, et al.

 

Thanks for that Jimmy.

[thompsonsnose]

I grew up with him as a kid watching MOTD and he used to bug the crap out me

When I got older and found our what he had done in the game he earned my respect.

 

We could do with few Jimmy Hills now to bring some sanity to the game instead of the Fletch and Sav gobshite generation 

That just about sums it up for me. Someone who clearly loved the game.

Copmare and contrast to someone like Blatter.

[Kloppite]

Are you watching Jimmy Hill is what the Kop should sing next time we are at home and winning a game.

[halewood pete]

Always remember in the early seventies when we played arsenal at Highbury and the linesman got injured(no fourth official then)they put an appeal out over the PA system for anyone in the crowd who was qualified to run the line,and up pops Jimmy hill who was a spectator at the match,who threw a tracksuit on and took over the line.he did talk shit at times but I did quite like the fella.

[Paco]

Didn't he blame a ball girl for getting the ball back into play too quickly and the other team scored?

 

think it was blackburn pre premier league. the girl was in tears and her dad was going to knock him out.

[Joe Strummer]

Didn't recognise his family these last few years, a terrible illness better off at peace. I remember he defended Big Ron for his Desailly 'off air comments' which caused a bit of a stir.

 

Stewart Lee does a sketch on it.

[markcd]

"edna edna"

 

"spoofer"

 

"reck-on"

 

"jimmy hill"

 

all gone but not forgotten

[Dr Nowt]

Didn't he blame a ball girl for getting the ball back into play too quickly and the other team scored?

 

think it was blackburn pre premier league. the girl was in tears and her dad was going to knock him out.

Yep, against us in the FA Cup.