A truly fantastic ambassador for the beautiful game, advocate of the three points for a win rule which changed football for the better, will be sadly missed, football needs more like Jimmy Hill.
In one sense , never forgave him for his antics at Highfield Road where we were relagated because of a 'fudged' draw - (Coventry v Everton I think!) in other respects, yes, quite entrepreneurial and way ahead of his time. Overall sadly missed. Still begrudge him though!
Way off the mark there Thurnby The game you refer to was Cov v Everton played on a Sunday after we had played on the Saturday. Everton had already won the league and fielded an understrengh team and lost, 4-1which relegated us. This resulted in FA changing its rules so all the final day games kick off at the same time. Certainly not Jimmy's doing I think it was 84/85 season
Quite correct BB, if I recall correctly Cov had to win there last 3 games to stay up and did so somehow?? I think that was 84/85 the year we won the Milk Cup against Sunderland
