Jimmy Hill (footballer, born 1935)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Matthew James Hill | ||
| Date of birth | 31 October 1935 | ||
| Place of birth | Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
| Playing position | Winger | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Carrick Rangers | |||
| 1953–1957 | Linfield | ||
| 1957–1959 | Newcastle United | 11 | (2) |
| 1959–1963 | Norwich City | 161 | (55) |
| 1963–1965 | Everton | 7 | (1) |
| 1965–1968 | Port Vale | 63 | (8) |
| 1968–1971 | Derry City | ||
| Total | 242+ | (66+) | |
| National team | |||
| 1953 | Northern Ireland Amateurs | 1 | (0) |
| 1956–1958 | Irish League | 6 | (0) |
| 1957–1960 | Northern Ireland B | 2 | (0) |
| 1959–1963 | Northern Ireland | 7 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1968–1971 | Derry City | ||
| 1971–1972 | Linfield | ||
| 1988–1991 | Carrick Rangers | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Matthew James Hill (born 31 October 1935) is a Northern Irish former footballer and manager. A winger, he scored 66 goals in 242 league appearances in an 11-year career in the Football League. He also won seven caps for Northern Ireland.
He played for Carrick Rangers and then Linfield, winning three Irish League titles before joining English club Newcastle United in 1957. Two years later he moved on to Norwich City, and helped the "Canaries" to win promotion out of the Third Division in 1959–60 and then to lift the League Cup in 1962. He was transferred to Everton for a £25,000 fee in 1963, but struggled with injury before being moved on to Port Vale for a £5,000 fee in October 1965. He left the club in January 1968 to become player-manager at Derry City. As a manager, he led Derry to second in the league in 1968–69 and to the 1971 Irish Cup final. He then managed Linfield for one season before embarking on a 16-year break from the game in 1972. He returned to manage Carrick Rangers from November 1988 to February 1991.
Hill played for hometown club Carrick Rangers before joining Linfield. He won three successive Irish League titles at Windsor Park, in 1953–54, 1954–55, and 1955–56. He joined Newcastle United in part-exchange for Jackie Milburn in 1957. The "Magpies" struggled in the lower half of the First Division table in the 1957–58 season, and finished just one point above the relegation zone. They then improved to finish 11th in 1958–59, but Hill never settled in at St James' Park, scoring two goals in just 11 league games. He moved on to Norwich City, and helped Archie Macaulay's "Canaries" to win promotion out of the Third Division in second place in 1959–60; Hill and Terry Allcock were the club's top-scorers with 16 goals. Norwich finished fourth in the Second Division in 1960–61, nine points short of a second successive promotion. New manager Willie Reid led the club to 17th in 1961–62, though Norwich found greater success in the League Cup. Norwich won the 1962 Football League Cup Final with a 4–0 aggregate victory over Rochdale, Hill scoring the only goal of the second leg at Carrow Road. He left the club after a comfortable mid-table finish in 1962–63.
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