Gordon Hill Profile

Gordon Hill

Gor­don Alec Hill, born Sud­bury-on-Thames, Eng­land, April 1, 1954. Gor­don Hill ini­ti­ated his foot­ball ca­reer wi­th Mill­wall where he emer­ged as a pro­mising out­side left un­der the sound lead­er­ship of Benny Fenton. Af­ter spend­ing the sum­mer of 1975 ap­pear­ing for North Amer­ic­an Soc­cer Lea­gue out­fit Chica­go Sting, he joi­ned Man­chester Uni­ted for a bar­gain fee of £70,000 partly in­to the 1975-76 season.

Gor­don Hill, who was some­times guilty of over­do­ing the show­man­ship, was han­ded his Di­vi­sion One de­but for Man­chester Uni­ted by Tom­my Doc­herty in a 2-0 tri­umph over Ron Saunder´s As­ton Vil­la si­de at Old Traf­ford on the 15th of Nov­ember 1975 and qui­ckly made his pres­ence felt by form­ing a for­mid­able wing part­ner­ship wi­th fel­low flank for­ward Ste­ve Cop­pell who had ar­rived from Lea­gue Di­vi­sion Three te­am Tran­mere Rov­ers for a trans­fer fee of £60,000 the pre­vi­ous sea­son. Hill re­gistered his fir­st Lea­gue goal for Man­chester Uni­ted when he fou­nd the back of the net in a 4-1 de­mol­ish­ing of re­leg­a­tion can­did­ates Shef­field Uni­ted at Bramall Lane on the 13th of the fol­low­ing month and hit the win­ner in a nar­row 1-0 Fir­st Di­vi­sion vic­tory over Wolver­hampton Wan­derers at Old Traf­ford a week la­ter. Dur­ing the 1975-76 cam­paign, Man­chester Uni­ted in­jec­ted loads of pos­it­iv­ity in­to Eng­lish soc­cer wi­th an ad­ven­tur­ous ap­proach to at­tack­ing foot­ball which suited his play­ing style per­fectly and he re­gistered bo­th goals in the 2-0 FA Cup Semi Fi­nal vic­tory ag­ainst Der­by Coun­ty at Hills­bor­ough on the 3rd of April 1976 as he help­ed The Reds reach the fi­nal, on­ly to suc­cumb to a nar­row 1-0 de­feat at the hands of Sec­ond Di­vi­sion South­ampton. He re­turned to Wemb­ley Sta­dium the fol­low­ing year, how­ever, to pick up an FA Cup win­ner­’s medal when Docherty´s Uni­ted edged out North West en­emies Liver­pool by 2-1 thanks to sec­ond-ha­lf goals by strik­ing part­ners Stu­art Pear­son and Jim­my Greenhoff.

Af­ter amass­ing 101 Foot­ball Lea­gue ap­pear­ances for Man­chester Uni­ted, Gor­don Hill would leave the club in the spring of 1978 when the flank­man was sold to fel­low Fir­st Di­vi­sion si­de Der­by Coun­ty, who were by then ma­naged by Doc­herty, for a trans­fer fee of £250,000, link­ing wi­th Base­ball Gro­und play­ers such as Ger­ry Da­ly, Arch­ie Gem­mill, Char­lie Ge­orge, Bru­ce Ri­och, and Ger­ry Ry­an. Fol­low­ing 24 Foot­ball Lea­gue ga­mes for The Rams, he teamed up wi­th The Doc for a third time when he sig­ned wi­th Queens Park Ran­gers in 1980, and made 14 Fir­st Di­vi­sion out­ings for the si­de be­fore he de­cided to leave for North Amer­ica where he starred for sev­er­al te­ams. Be­ing a happy wan­der­er, he also en­joyed spells at FC Twente, HJK Hel­sinki, Stafford Ran­gers, and North­wich Vic­tor­ia, and la­ter be­came head coach of Nova Sco­tia Clip­pers, Chester City, and Hyde Uni­ted. An Eng­land play­er, Hill was giv­en his in­ter­na­tion­al de­but for The Three Li­ons by for­mer Leeds Uni­ted boss Don Re­vie in a 3-2 win over Italy at Yan­kee Sta­dium in New York in the USA Bi­cen­ten­ni­al Cup Tour­na­ment on the 28th of May 1976 and went on to col­lect a total of six seni­or caps for the coun­try of his bir­th. Gor­don Hill Play­ing Ca­reer: Mill­wall, Chica­go Sting, Man­chester Uni­ted, Der­by Coun­ty, Queens Park Ran­gers, Montreal Man­ic, Chica­go Sting, Inter Montreal, FC Twente, HJK Hel­sinki, Stafford Ran­gers, North­wich Vic­tor­ia, Nova Sco­tia Clip­pers. Play­ing Hon­ours: Eng­lish FA Cup 1977, Eng­lish FA Char­ity Shield 1977.

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Manchester United Appearances

1975-76 Sea­son:

Man­chester Uni­ted 2 As­ton Vil­la 0
Ar­senal 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 New­castle Uni­ted 0
Middles­brough 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Shef­field Uni­ted 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 4
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Wolver­hampton Wan­derers 0
Ever­ton 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Burn­ley 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Ox­ford Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Queens Park Ran­gers 1
Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Pe­ter­bor­ough Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Birm­ing­ham City 1
Cov­entry City 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Lei­cester City 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Liver­pool 0
As­ton Vil­la 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Der­by Coun­ty 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 4 West Ham Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Wolver­hampton Wan­derers 1
Wolver­hampton Wan­derers 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 3
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Leeds Uni­ted 2
Nor­wich City 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
New­castle Uni­ted 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 4
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Middles­brough 0
Der­by Coun­ty 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Ips­wich To­wn 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Ever­ton 1
Burn­ley 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Sto­ke City 1
Lei­cester City 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 South­ampton 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Man­chester City 0

1976-77 Sea­son:

Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Birm­ing­ham City 2
Cov­entry City 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Der­by Coun­ty 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 5 Tran­mere Rov­ers 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur 3
New­castle Uni­ted 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Ajax 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Middles­brough 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Sun­der­land 2
Man­chester City 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 3
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Ajax 0
Leeds Uni­ted 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Sun­der­land 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Sun­der­land 0
West Brom­wich Al­bion 4 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Ju­ventus 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Nor­wich City 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 7 New­castle Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Ips­wich To­wn 1
Ju­ventus 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
As­ton Vil­la 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Sun­der­land 3
Lei­cester City 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 West Ham Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Ever­ton 3
Ar­senal 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 4 Ever­ton 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 As­ton Vil­la 0
Ips­wich To­wn 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Walsall 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Cov­entry City 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Bris­tol City 1
Birm­ing­ham City 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 3
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Queens Park Ran­gers 0
Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 3
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Liver­pool 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 New­castle Uni­ted 1
South­ampton 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Man­chester City 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 South­ampton 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Leeds Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 As­ton Vil­la 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 West Brom­wich Al­bion 2
Nor­wich City 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Ever­ton 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Sto­ke City 0
Sun­der­land 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Lei­cester City 1
Leeds Uni­ted 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Middles­brough 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Queens Park Ran­gers 0
Liver­pool 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Sto­ke City 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 3
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Ar­senal 2
West Ham Uni­ted 4 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Liver­pool 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 2

1977-78 Sea­son:

Liver­pool 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Birm­ing­ham City 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 4
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Cov­entry City 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Ips­wich To­wn 0
Ar­senal 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Der­by Coun­ty 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester City 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Saint Etienne 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Chel­sea 1
Leeds Uni­ted 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Liver­pool 0
Saint Etienne 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Middles­brough 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 New­castle Uni­ted 2
FC Porto 4 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
West Brom­wich Al­bion 4 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
As­ton Vil­la 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 5 FC Porto 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Ar­senal 2
Not­ting­ham For­est 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Nor­wich City 0
Queens Park Ran­gers 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Wolver­hampton Wan­derers 1
West Ham Uni­ted 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Not­ting­ham For­est 4
Ever­ton 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 6
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Lei­cester City 1
Cov­entry City 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Birm­ing­ham City 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 4 Carl­isle Uni­ted 2
Ips­wich To­wn 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 4 Der­by Coun­ty 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 West Brom­wich Al­bion 1
West Brom­wich Al­bion 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Bris­tol City 1
Chel­sea 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Liver­pool 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Leeds Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Middles­brough 0
New­castle Uni­ted 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Man­chester City 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 West Brom­wich Al­bion 1
Lei­cester City 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 3
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Ever­ton 2
Ar­senal 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 1

Total Ap­pear­ances: 134

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