I've seen clips of Jimmy Hill, and he seems to be a very shady character; can anyone fill in some information on the guy?
Jimmy Hill is the only person in the history of football to have been player, coach, manager, director and finally chairman of a Football League Club. This experience has given him a unique insight to the game, its passions and its problems It is for this reason that Jimmy has become on of the most influential figures in Football within this country.
In 1961 he led the Players Union in its successful struggle to lift the £20.00 maximum wage. Between 1961 and 1966, as manager, he took Coventry City from the Third to the 1st division (now the Premier League), where they have remained ever since. In 1968 he became Head of Sport at London Weekend Television and rose to Deputy Controller of Programmes, before joining the BBC as presenter of "Match of the Day".Since 1973 he has made over 600 appearances in "Match of the Day" and many more in other BBC sporting flagships, "Sportsnight" and "Grandstand". He has appeared in every one of either ITV or BBC's coverage of the World Cup and European Championships since 1966.
He was Chairman of Fulham Football Club, the club for whom he played in 300 games as a professional between 1953 and 1961.
Info lifted from his site