After dinner comedian BOB “THE CAT” BEVAN MBE pays his own special tribute to one of the game’s greatest innovators

IWAS 13 when I first saw Jimmy Hill. It was 1958 and not just football fanatics like me but the whole country was struggling to come to terms with the Munich air crash.
Manchester United had lost some of the best players ever to grace the game and the whole country was behind them as they regrouped and, remarkably, got through to the FA Cup semi-final against Second Division Fulham. The first game ended 2-2 to be followed by a mid-week replay at Highbury...