Time to Go, Jim

It was painful to watch Brian Woolnough, Henry Winter and Shaun Custis struggling to contain their frustration as Jimmy Hill blundered on regardless for what must have seemed like the ten thousandth time with his threadbare old views on the art of football management, which are the product of his stint as Coventry boss during the last century.

Dear old Jim seems totally oblivious to the fact that when once again he trots out the same old stuff about players who have heard everything a manager has to say there is an almost unbearably heavy irony about the situation – not to mention an intolerable strain upon the ability of his ‘guests’ to maintain both courtesy and propriety.

Jimmy Hill has had a wonderful career in football – as a modest player with Fulham, as PFA leader when the maximum wage was abolished, as Coventry City manager and as a distinguished television personality. But now that everyone had heard, and re-heard, everything he has to say, it really is time for him to go – and perhaps to re-launch the programme as Brian Woolnough’s Sunday Supplement, with three guests from the world of sports journalist giving their views on topics of immediate interest. Football fans would love it.