From Gordon Hill to the doyen of cricket umpiring, via one official sending off another and even a spot of Naked Gun
1) Gordon Hill
It's a touch hard to believe amid the bland pale-faced middle-management orthodoxy of today's referees, Gordon Hill did what no football official has done before or since – he made being the man with the whistle look cool.
Between 1966 and 1975 he was certainly the anti-establishment face of the establishment. He looked like a lost fifth Beatle (free-kicks were awarded from underneath a mop of hair and from behind a thick moustache), undid more buttons on his referee's shirt than was publicly decent and gave as good as he got with the players.
On one occasion Millwall's Eamon Dunphy complained at a robust tackle going unpenalised. "You would have avoided it last year," Hill told him. "You're fucking going, you are. Getting past it." His comfort with expletives...
1) Gordon Hill
It's a touch hard to believe amid the bland pale-faced middle-management orthodoxy of today's referees, Gordon Hill did what no football official has done before or since – he made being the man with the whistle look cool.
Between 1966 and 1975 he was certainly the anti-establishment face of the establishment. He looked like a lost fifth Beatle (free-kicks were awarded from underneath a mop of hair and from behind a thick moustache), undid more buttons on his referee's shirt than was publicly decent and gave as good as he got with the players.
On one occasion Millwall's Eamon Dunphy complained at a robust tackle going unpenalised. "You would have avoided it last year," Hill told him. "You're fucking going, you are. Getting past it." His comfort with expletives...
- 10/11/2013
- by John Ashdown
- The Guardian - Film News
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