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| Tell a Friend Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:22 pm Post subject: JIMMY HAYNES DIED |
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Jimmy Hill led the tributes to his former team-mate, the Fulham and England legend Johnny Haynes, who died on Tuesday night.
Haynes, who was 71, passed away at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after he and his wife Avril, who remains in hospital in a stable condition, were involved in a car crash in the city on Monday.
As an inside forward, Haynes, who made 594 appearances for Fulham from 1952-1970 and won 56 England caps, was one of the great passers of his generation and became the country's first £100-per-week player.
Hill was instrumental in the abolition of the maximum wage that made such payments possible and was saddened by the loss of one of the game's great stars.
Hill told Sky Sports News: "He was really just wonderful. He had a special skill and he was a lovely young man.
"He was not arrogant or conceited in any way. He adored the game of football and, to be honest, he mastered it, the difficult parts especially.
"He stayed with Fulham from a boy to the end of his career and was great for that club.
"When he finished playing he left the club in as good a way as it could be.
"He was a terrific young man and had a fantastic life."
Haynes, who was born in London, joined Fulham at the age of 17 and made a goalscoring England debut against Northern Ireland in Belfast two years later.
He went on to captain his country on 22 occasions and played in the World Cups of 1958 and 1962.
His finest hour in an England shirt came when he scored a hat-trick against Russia in a 5-0 win in 1958 and he was also inspirational in a 9-3 win over Scotland at Wembley in 1961.
His final international appearance proved to be England's 3-1 World Cup quarter-final defeat by Brazil in Chile in 1962 as he suffered a serious knee injury in a car crash soon after.
Yet he was to recover and continue playing for Fulham, where he was known as 'The Maestro', for another eight years.
He even had a spell managing the club after the sacking of Bobby Robson in 1968 and then wound up his career with South African side Durban City.
A tribute on the Fulham website read: "It is with great regret that the club informs its fans of this very sad news and hopes that they will all join together in the one minute's silence in honour of 'The Maestro'.
"This will take place on Saturday prior to kick-off at the Fulham v Liverpool game at Craven Cottage.
"The thoughts and sympathies of everyone associated with the club are with his family at this time." |
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