Jimmy Hill
Hill (left) with former Fulham team-mate Maurice Cook
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | James William Thomas Hill | ||
| Date of birth | 22 July 1928 | ||
| Place of birth | Balham, London, England | ||
| Date of death | 19 December 2015 (aged 87) | ||
| Place of death | Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, England | ||
| Playing position | Inside right | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1949–1952 | Brentford | 83 | (10) |
| 1952–1961 | Fulham | 276 | (41) |
| Total | 359 | (51) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1961–1967 | Coventry City | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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James William Thomas "Jimmy" Hill OBE (22 July 1928 – 19 December 2015) was an English football professional and personality. His career included almost every role in the sport, including player, trade union leader, coach, manager, director, chairman, television executive, presenter, analyst and assistant referee.
He began his playing career at Brentford in 1949, and moved to Fulham three years later. As president of the Professional Footballers' Association, he successfully campaigned for an end to The Football League's maximum wage in 1961. After retiring as a player, he took over as manager of Coventry City, modernising the team's image and guiding them from the Third to the First Division. In 1967, he began a career in football broadcasting, and from 1973 to 1988 was host of the BBC's Match of the Day.
Hill was born in Balham, London, the son of William Thomas Hill, a World War I veteran, milkman, and bread delivery worker and Alice Beatrice Hill née Wyatt. He was a pupil at Henry Thornton Grammar School, Clapham (1939–45), and later became President of the Old Boys' Association. He did national service as a clerk in the Royal Army Service Corps in which he attained the rank of Corporal and was considered a potential candidate for officer training.
Hill first came into football as a fan, regularly watching football at local club Crystal Palace, but, despite this, he started playing in 1949 with Brentford, making 87 appearances before moving to Fulham in March 1952, for whom he played nearly 300 games, scoring 52 goals. He set up a club record by scoring five goals for Fulham in an away match against Doncaster Rovers in 1958 and was part of the team that gained promotion to the First Division.
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