Sad football news - Jimmy Hill

[Nicosia Gooner]

Jimmy Hill has dementia and is in care. A giant of football/broadcasting and players rights, may his remaining days be peaceful.

[pjlincs]

[Herr Floyd - PEGIDA]

One of the very very few true gentlemen and likeable sports presenters.

[Nicosia Gooner]

[Nicosia Gooner]

"Okay. It is 1971, and Arsenal, under the guidance of their commanding officer, Bertie Mee, and barking sergeant major, Don Howe, are closing on the first League and Cup double since Tottenham's a decade earlier.

In the run-up to the FA Cup final, Hill takes it upon himself to devise a new means of rallying the Highbury supporters. A song. Why? Too late, the thought is thunk, and verses penned by the bearded bard - that chin does come in useful, I have to say - appear in the papers as if they were a new poem by Rudyard Kipling."

"Good Old Arsenal, We're proud to say the name, While we sing this song we'll Win The Game..." to the tune of "Rule Britannia".

[barrybueno]

[Supermac1976]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/jimwhite/2371348 /The-Sporting-Week-Hill-never-benefited-from-end-of-maximum- wage.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/jimwhite/2371348/The-Sporting-Week-Hill-never-benefited-from-end-of-maximum-wage.html)

[Nicosia Gooner]

:hehe:

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Also a linesman at Arsenal once :-)

True football man and there are less and less of them these days in the game - as said hope his last days are with some peace.

[Nicosia Gooner]