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Always liked listening to Jimmy. A proper football man. RIP
Always liked listening to Jimmy. A proper football man. RIP
Jimmy isn't a poof any longer
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Apparently he loved the slaggings and songs from Scots fans. I think he had a soft spot for us. RIP The Chin.
Greenmachine
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I liked and admired Jimmy Hill...a real football man who played a major role in the development of the game during his lifetime. He was also a man who was not afraid to speak his mind whilst talking about games as a pundit or a co-commentator unlike the pathetic sycophants who currently act as "pundits" in the game today but who just all back their friends in the game up all the time, toe the party line, and never say anything different or controversial.
Despite being a true English patriot, Hill actually loved Scotland and the scottish people...he enjoyed the banter and the wind-ups.
RIP Jimmy
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He did.
Despite being a true English patriot, Hill actually loved Scotland and the scottish people...he enjoyed the banter and the wind-ups.
RIP Jimmy
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He did.
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He shagged so many of his secretaries that I think he actually married three of them.
Respect.
Respect.
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I think Jimmy had quite a self-confessed affinity with Scotland although that might seem unlikely. Sure I read that his brother was stationed in Scotland during the war and could speak no higher of the Scots and the hospitable way they accepted and welcomed him. Jimmy said that was always sacrosanct among him and family.
My personal memory of him was not a particularly notable one but was during the commentary of a Manchester United game on Match of the Day during the early seventies when my own personal Scottish football hero, Denis Law was reappearing after a lengthy period of injury, well into his thirties when people were mistakenly beginning to write his career off. 'The Lawman' was all over every blade of grass that day - dynamic and electric as ever and Jimmy pointed this out in some extended coverage and great detail, very expertly.
I've fond memories of the original World Cup Panels too which I believe he was instrumental in initiating. Paddy Crerand et al. Good times.
Rest in Peace, Jimmy.
My personal memory of him was not a particularly notable one but was during the commentary of a Manchester United game on Match of the Day during the early seventies when my own personal Scottish football hero, Denis Law was reappearing after a lengthy period of injury, well into his thirties when people were mistakenly beginning to write his career off. 'The Lawman' was all over every blade of grass that day - dynamic and electric as ever and Jimmy pointed this out in some extended coverage and great detail, very expertly.
I've fond memories of the original World Cup Panels too which I believe he was instrumental in initiating. Paddy Crerand et al. Good times.
Rest in Peace, Jimmy.
