In that decade, grieving wife Barbara and her children Emma and Emlyn have never talked about their devastation at losing him at just 57 in November 2004. neil etheridgei am so sad and wish to pass my thoughts to his family and all football fans,it does'nt matter which team you follow when a great human being is taken from this world so young rip emlyn. He made his debut for Blackpool in 1964 playing alongside Jimmy Armfield and Alan Ball, initially as an inside forward, but later at left-half. We also got to mingle with the team at the Queens Birthday Party at the embassy the following day. Emlyn hughes funeral hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy BBC - Liverpool - Sport - Liverpool Remembers Emlyn Hughes I just closed the door on the room where he died. I was in the Kop, LFC were playing Man City, Rodney Marsh was goal bound on his own. It is almost 10 years since a brain tumour claimed the life of the life of one of Britains most famous and inspirational sportsmen, and that positive outlook, cheerful in the very face of death, is among the many memories that his family treasure. The National Football Museum in Preston started its Hall of Fame in 2002 with the inductees chosen by a selection panel that included Gordon Banks, Sir Trevor Brooking, Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Bobby Charlton, Jack Charlton, Mark Lawrenson and Gary Lineker. And he always had a smile.. His death feels like the death of my youth. He was an inspirational player and he will never be forgotten. The doctor called that night.. Afterwards I did think, He got the better of me even then. Last days; 20 years after his retirement, Emlyn Hughes was diagnosed with a brain tumour. He was always positive from day one. I came in as an inexperienced player and he was so effervescent," he said. All our deepest condolences go to his wife and family. Both of you loved and missed. He left Liverpool in 1979 to join Wolverhampton Wanderers for 90,000 and with them won the League Cup the only piece of silverware to have eluded him at Anfield. "Those lucky enough to see him play will recall his boundless enthusiasm, 100% commitment and unrelenting passion for the club whenever he had the Liver Bird close to his chest. He gave the barber a photo of Emlyn Hughes saying, 'he'll have his hair cut like Emlyn's'. Stephen ThompsonEmlyn Hughes was my hero,one of the worlds finest footballers,he had won all the major trophies except one with Liverpool but he finally got it anyway,he was a great captain and will be very sadly missed,go with god Hughsie and see you when i get there. His 59 appearances for England while at Liverpool made him the club's most capped player until Welsh striker Ian Rush broke the record more than ten years later. His death feels like the death of my youth. From the Kop watching him push the Reds to glory. A fantastic role model for the kids of today. You will never be forgotten but will be sadly missed. Who can forget the Derby goals he scored and his way of celebrating. Bernie Wheaton, New Jersey, USAI'm 59 years old and can remember when Shanks signed Emlyn from Blackpool as a raw younster who became a great inspirational footballer for Liverpool and England and he captained both. Barbara and Emmas grief is still raw and tears come to their eyes as they talk. Liverpool Remembers Emlyn Hughes by Louise Sardais Emlyn Hughes, the former Liverpool captain, has died aged 57. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Shankly was enamoured with Hughes from the moment he saw him, and upon being given short shrift by Blackpool he would still phone the player every Sunday morning to proclaim that he would soon be heading to Anfield, and to check that the teenager was sufficiently looking after himself. and I can tell you he was there before any of the other defenders had a chance to react. However, a run of nine wins in a row followed and Rotherham climbed from third last to third place in the league. He desereved to win all he got I will always admire him he was an inspiration to me. Barbara says: Emlyn would have loved the idea of it have a party, watch football, and raise money for a wonderful cause.. Emlyn Hughes was one of the significant signings of that barren era from 1966 to 1970 and the story goes that Shanks watched him play just once, saw enough and tried to sign him straight away. Good night Crazy horse and God bless. Within days of Hughes arrival at Liverpool, he was unexpectedly thrown straight into first-team action at home to Stoke City. Emlyn Hughes, the former England and Liverpool captain whose distinctive voice and infectious laugh endeared him to a generation of television viewers on A Question of Sport, died yesterday from a brain tumour at the age of 57. I've been waiting for somebody to say: "Jesus, Hughesy, you look rough", but they don't. Unwittingly, when Hughes lifted the European Cup into the Wembley night sky in May 1978, after the club defeated Club Brugge to become the first British team to retain the trophy, little did he or anyone else realise that he was soon to be a casualty of Paisleys evolution policy. [3] Hughes won the Football Writers' Player of the Year in 1977. You've lost a star. Ste Speed recalls one of Liverpool's most charismatic players, Emlyn Hughes, who passed away on this day in 2004. In 1992, he appeared on an episode of GamesMaster promoting the football video game which carried his name, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer. , PAUL CANTRILLA VERY SAD LOSE TO ENGLISH FOOTBALL. He was playing for Blackpool at the time. ", Rick Parry, chief executive of Liverpool football club, said: "Our deepest sympathies go out to wife Barbara, children Emma and Emlyn junior, and the rest of the family at this sad time. In 1979, Hughes became a team captain on the long-running BBC quiz A Question of Sport, opposite the former rugby union footballer Gareth Edwards. The statistics were something like one in every ten thousand. He was exactly as you would see him on television. Barbara says: We never discussed death because he never considered it but Emlyn would have wanted to die at home.. - Emlyn Hughes International Soccer (Commodore 64 Version) - Cup Mode Longplay -The one and only Emlyn Hughes.For more videos like this, please subscribe t. A Liverpool legend, a excellent player. An excerpt taken from the BBC documentary 'A Question of Sport at 50' which looks back at half a century of the popular sports quiz, focusing on Princess Ann. One of the greats of a great Liverpool side is no longer with us.". A decade later I cannot believe such painfully slow progress has been made towards a cure for brain tumours, she says. NellyI'm a reds fan but only managed to see Emlyn play for the team were I was born Hull City. i am so sad and wish to pass my thoughts to his family and all football fans,it does'nt matter which team you follow when a great human being is taken from this world so young rip emlyn. It just epitomised his status as a great Liverpool footballer. I cannot believe itThis guy was my hero when I was growing up in Ireland. RM 2HAYWK3 - File photo dated 17-11-2004 of Former Liverpool player Ian St John arrives at Sheffield cathedral where the funeral of Emlyn Hughes took place. Thanks to the superb site. There still isnt a day that goes past where I dont think of him, she says. He was one of the greats. He was our captain when I saw my first game at Anfield, and his love of the game, and our club was infectious. Later that year he also turned out for Swansea City, with whom he brought his playing career to a close. . Hughes was married to Barbara and had a son and daughter, both named after him (Emlyn Jr. and Emma Lynn).[10]. Inheriting a side that had won the Third Division championship under Ian Porterfield, including such players as John Breckin, Tony Towner and Ronnie Moore, Rotherham made a patchy start to the season and were in the relegation zone in January. Having not played a single minute in Mexico, between the autumn of 1970 and the spring of 1974 Hughes was to be Englands first choice left-back, Ramsey failing to follow the example set by Shankly in building his team around him in a more central position. [3] A minute's silence was held the following evening at Anfield before Liverpool's game against Middlesbrough in the League Cup. Trevor - LFC fan South AustraliaSuch was the man that his sad demise is talked about by football fans over here in Oz as a great loss to all - no doubt especially to his loving family. He became even kinder and more thoughtful. Emlyn Hughes obituary | Soccer | The Guardian She says brain cancer research is underfunded and wants more done to save families from similar heartbreak. A classic interview from 1964 between Blackpool and England star and part time editor and journalist Jimmy Armfield and a young seventeen year old full back born in Barrow-in-Furness who's father played for the British Lions Rugby Union side as well as appearing in the other code for Barrow, who has just completed his first year as a professional footballer with Blackpool FC. Women's Super League Titles. DunnyLFC Legend, the first centre-half who could take someone on and put it in the net like a centre-forward. Afterwards I did think, He got the better of me even then. The Kop duly cheered! His reputation was sealed a few weeks later when he identified a picture of the princess as the jockey John Reid. Liverpool lost to Manchester United in the FA Cup semi-finals, with Hughes caught out of position for the winning goal. YNWA. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. John Barnwell, who brought Hughes to Wolves in 1979, said: "The greatest thing Emlyn had was enthusiasm. England dominated the match but were denied constantly by Polish goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski. From March 2002, he became a presenter and pundit on the nightly football phone-in on Real Radio Yorkshire. He lifted the spirits of the team when they journeyed to Rome for the European Cup Final and the rest is history. RIP Emlyn. It took a lot for a player to turn the head of the Liverpool manager enough to win himself a shirt on a Saturday afternoon at the expense of a current incumbent, yet Shankly was so smitten with Blackpools teenage talent that there would be no stopping the gravity of Hughes rise. Hughes was now predominantly a central defender and played in a tactically disastrous team against Italy in Rome, which marked the lowest point of Revie's tenure as England manager. Thank you for everything Crazy Horse. His rival captain Bill Beaumont, the former England rugby union captain, said: "He had an infectious laugh, wasn't afraid to laugh at himself and was a great team man.". RIP Emlyn; God Bless, Always. [8] However, he left A Question of Sport and the corporation as a whole in 1987 to go to ITV and captain a team on Sporting Triangles. He was the best person to learn from and a larger than life character. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Professor Hughes is the winner of the Feynman Teaching Award (Caltech, 1999) and the ASCIT Teaching Award (Caltech, 1997). He was an example to me as a schoolkid growing up that you should always play with passion and pride but be dignified in defeat. Friends and former colleagues praised Hughes as a "complete one-off" and an "absolute hero". "Football will definitely miss him - he was a legend.". "He was just such a lovely and enthusiastic bloke," said Bill Beaumont, the former England rugby captain who for many years was his opposite captain on A Question of Sport. He will be sadly missed by all of us who had the pleasure and privilege of seeing him perform his magic on the field and his class whenever off the field. I still and always will be a Liverpool supporter and instead of slating players all you can ask is 100%. When he was in a room youd know about it. He for me, a liverpool fan for fifty years, man and boy, was mr liverpool,in my opinion present and future players of liverpool should sit down and watch videos of emlyn, who to me was one of the best players that ever wore the famous red shirt.god bless emlyn . We were chatting to the guys at the table when this little voice squeaks up Dont you want my autograph then? In my ignorance I answered by asking him are you one of the team then? Which caused the rest of the table to roar with laughter, of course the cheeky faced team member was Emlyn. I knew nothing about football but a friend and I went to collect the teams autographs, when we came to a table where I recognised Kevin Keegan and we passed our sheets of paper around for signing. Prior to returning to Columbia as a Professor in 2006, Hughes was a Professor of Physics at Caltech for 11 years. "The Rugby League Miscellany [Page-6]". He desereved to win all he got I will always admire him he was an inspiration to me. Emma says: They couldnt get all the tumour so we asked, Right, whats next? The medical team said there was no cure. 630 Pupin, Mail Code: 5255, United States, Columbia University in the City of New York. Emlyn Hughes dies aged 57 - London Evening Standard Liverpool career stats for Emlyn Hughes - LFChistory And football fans have been paying their tributes to Hughes on the 606 message boards. 1964 interview with future Liverpool star Emlyn Hughes. In 1978, Hughes was in the Liverpool team which played and lost its first ever League Cup final, to Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest in a replay. He joined our party and signed autographs for everyone who requested one. Barbara says: Although he was away a lot, the door would always open and hed be there. Rooney later apologised. He was sold to Wolverhampton Wanderers for 90,000 in August 1979. A Liverpool great, who will be sadly missed. A decade later I cannot believe such painfully slow progress has been made towards a cure for brain tumours, she says. On the eve of the 1979/80 season, Hughes was allowed to depart Liverpool for Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he would go on to lift the League Cup as captain the one domestic honour that had eluded him at Anfield even going on to gain a recall to the England squad for the 1980 European Championship, where just like in Mexico a decade earlier, he would miss out on an on-pitch contribution. HIS PASSION FOR THE GAME & LIVERPOOL FC & HIS GREAT SMILE IS WHAT SET HIM APART FROM OTHERS. He went on to win the League Cup in his first season with Wolves the only trophy he did not win with Liverpool lifting it as captain after a 10 win over Nottingham Forest at Wembley. Hughes lunged into a last-ditch tackle but Domarski's shot evaded his block and slipped under Shilton's body and into the net. He underwent surgery for a. KeithEmlyn Hughes was the epitome of enthusiasm for the game, loyalty to club and country, and all-round professionalism that is so rarely seen today. My father had cancer and we have been through it all, chemo all the horrible things that it brings. All rights reserved - LFCHistory.net - [emailprotected] - This is an independent website not owned by Liverpool Football Club. Diane KendrickAs a 13 year old Emlyn was my hero and I had his autograph dated 1969. Hughes, who extended his fame as a television personality on the BBC's 'Question of Sport', had been battling a brain tumour for the last 15 months but deteriorated in the last few days. Over the years, Professor Hughes research interests have spanned areas of atomic, nuclear and particle physics. The death of "Yozzer" brought back all the memories, for me, of the mid to late 70's as a teenager. He made 665 appearances for Liverpool and captained the side to three league titles and an FA Cup victory in the 1970s. Hughes, who also played for Rotherham, Blackpool, Hull, Mansfield and Swansea, went on to make his mark in television as a captain on the BBC's A Question of Sport quiz show. Give our best wishes to Shanks when you see him. My abiding memory, Euro cups and League championships excepted, was when be scored two barnstorming goals at Goodison to give us victory over the blues. Thanks for all the great memories Crazy Horse, RIP. He died in his home in Sheffield on November 9 . Great fellow, great player. will will miss u. we hope u r.i.p. Come on without, Come on within you aint seen nothin' if you never saw Emlyn. his passion both on and off the field was admirable. Smith also stated that he thought Hughes was trying to "set him up" and was not really trying to bribe Arsenal players. God bless you and your family Crazy Horse from all scousers in the USA. Stig Myklebust, OsloHad the pleasure of meeting him back in the late 70s at the supporters' club in Lower Breck Road. Afterwards, 99.9% knew me. He said: "He was a really great player, quite obviously, because otherwise you wouldn't win so many caps for England. I was shocked to see the news about the most loved Liverpool player, who shuns the term "star" He just loved the game, and poured his heart into every match. Hughes led out England for the first time on 11 May 1974 against Wales in Cardiff, which England won 20. The 57 caps Hughes earned in the 1970s made him the most capped England player of the decade. But you learn to get by.. Emlyn made 62 appearances for England, 23 as captain, and scored huge triumphs with Liverpool then Wolves. Emlyn Hughes is a Professor of Physics at Columbia University. Robert Wilkins, BristolI have been a lifelong Liverpool fan and when I was about 9 or 10 I can remember my dad taking me to the barbers. From member of Englands World Cup-winning squad to picking up the injury that would eventually end his career before its time, Byrne was just a few days short of his 28th birthday and had many mountains still to conquer, yet he would play just 50 more games for the club before prematurely yielding to retirement. Through this, he occasionally appeared as a pundit on ITV's football coverage. May the Lord keep you. Hughes was now the undisputed dynamo of Shanklys team, and despite Byrne finally admitting defeat in his bid to play on, the Liverpool manager had no intention of switching Hughes to left-back, even with Alf Ramsey taking him to the 1970 World Cup primarily as a backup to Terry Cooper in the position. I moved to Pocklington, near York 7 years ago. He's still my hero. Audio and Video links on this page require, It was the 1977 FAcup final at Wembeley where we lost 2-1 to manchester united and I could never forget the anguish on Emlyns face. When he was in a room youd know about it. RIP Emlyn Hughes - LFChistory - Stats galore for Liverpool FC!

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