This was a BBC tribute to Jimmy Hill who passed away in 2015. His achievement in sports included being a successful football player, trade union leader, coach, manager, director, chairman, television executive at LWT, television presenter and pundit.
Hill was influential in the abolition of the maximum wage. He was the first to see football as family entertainment by introducing an all seater stadium at Coventry City, entertainment segments before the match and at half time. He advocated the 3 points system which was eventually adopted worldwide to make football competitive.
To me he was the presenter of Match of the Day, the man with the big chin and beard. He later moved sideways as a pundit and was also a regularly imitated by comedians and impressionists.
Here you find out more of this larger than life personality with contributions from friends, family and fellow professionals. I had no idea he was an accomplished horseman and the programme also did not gloss over his bit of pro celebrity sanctions busting when he tried to lead English footballers on a tour of apartheid South Africa which was not his finest moment.
I noted at the time of the 1998 World Cup in France that maybe his punditry was looking a little irrelevant and even old fashioned when surrounded by more recent internationals especially those from the continent and he left Match of the Day soon after.
Still Jimmy was a character and he brought a lot of fun with the football and controversy as he was not willing to hold back with his opinions.