Re: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP

2015-12-20 Thread davidwoolmer
; Leeds List Subject: Re: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP Pretty sure Valley Parade and Hillsborough were before Sky as were Awayday Crews, definitely remember paddling through beer and piss in the west stand in the late eighties and having a nation ashamed to be called football supporters, surprised you don't

Re: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP

2015-12-20 Thread Paul Cundell
gt; >> RIP Indeed - the face of MOTD when I was growing up. >> >> Ossie >> >>> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 14:08:25 +0000 >>> From: nat...@sky.com >>> To: leedslist@gn.apc.org >>> Subject: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP >>> >>> T

Re: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP

2015-12-20 Thread davidwoolmer
Don't remember any of those things existing in 1991 before Sky.   Original Message   From: Paul Cundell Sent: Sunday, 20 December 2015 20:19 To: Andy Clayton Cc: Leeds List Subject: Re: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP Tad confused as to what we had that was 'fucked up' by Sky to be honest, unsafe grounds

Re: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP

2015-12-19 Thread Andy Clayton
It was ridiculous that prior to the work he did, chairmen had too much power, too much of the reward. After his bollocks, players gained too much power, and all the reward. Instead of abolishing the maximum wage and implementing a fairer wage limit that shared some of the reward, then we

Re: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP

2015-12-19 Thread Richard Naef
> > Don't get me started on Jimmy Hill. Him & sky are the ones who fucked it all > up for the rest of us. Sky I can understand, but Jimmy Hill? What did he do other than stand up for Players rights? ___ Leedslist mailing list Info and options:

Re: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP

2015-12-19 Thread tim.whelan
om >> To: leedslist@gn.apc.org >> Subject: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP >> >> Title says it all really, Jimmy Hill is dead.Like him or hate him he >> certainly did a lot to change football , not all of it for the best but he >> certainly left his markRIP 'the Chin' &g

Re: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP

2015-12-19 Thread Richard Naef
> It was ridiculous that prior to the work he did, chairmen had too much > power, too much of the reward. > > After his bollocks, players gained too much power, and all the reward. > Instead of abolishing the maximum wage and implementing a fairer wage > limit that shared some of the reward,

Re: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP

2015-12-19 Thread Ian Murray
Hmmm, I don't think you can blame Jimmy for that. I blame sky. Football was at its best for me in the late 80s early 90s. Sad he's dead. Sent from my iPhone > On 20 Dec 2015, at 06:51, Andy Clayton wrote: > > It was ridiculous that prior to the work he did, chairmen

Re: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP

2015-12-19 Thread Ian Murray
Just on this, a great book about professional footballers before the maximum wage ended is Gary Imlach's 'my father and other working class football heroes'. I commend it to the list. Sent from my iPhone > On 20 Dec 2015, at 11:24, Richard Naef > wrote: > >

Re: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP

2015-12-19 Thread Brendan Osborne
RIP Indeed - the face of MOTD when I was growing up. Ossie > Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 14:08:25 + > From: nat...@sky.com > To: leedslist@gn.apc.org > Subject: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP > > Title says it all really, Jimmy Hill is dead.Like him or hate him he > certainl

[LU] Jimmy Hill RIP

2015-12-19 Thread nat...@sky.com
Title says it all really, Jimmy Hill is dead.Like him or hate him he certainly did a lot to change football , not all of it for the best but he certainly left his markRIP 'the Chin' Dave ___ Leedslist mailing list Info and options:

Re: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP

2015-12-19 Thread Andy Clayton
; >> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 14:08:25 + >> From: nat...@sky.com >> To: leedslist@gn.apc.org >> Subject: [LU] Jimmy Hill RIP >> >> Title says it all really, Jimmy Hill is dead.Like him or hate him he >> certainly did a lot to change football , not