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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: BC Villain on August 05, 2025, 11:52:40 AM

Title: Leon Hickman
Post by: BC Villain on August 05, 2025, 11:52:40 AM: Just seen on social media that former Evening Mail head of sport Leon Hickman has passed away. A giant in local media in contrast to the many you tube wannabes of today. RIP Leon
Title: Re: Leon Hickman
Post by: steamer on August 08, 2025, 10:35:15 PM: well remember his pieces in Evening Mail and the Argus
Seem to recall them being balanced, not sure who he supported
Sympathy to the family
Title: Re: Leon Hickman
Post by: Flamingo Lane on August 10, 2025, 08:05:10 PM: I very much enjoyed his writing. RIP.
Title: Re: Leon Hickman
Post by: dave.woodhall on August 10, 2025, 08:45:14 PM: Quote from: steamer on August 08, 2025, 10:35:15 PM
well remember his pieces in Evening Mail and the Argus
Seem to recall them being balanced, not sure who he supported
Sympathy to the family

Wolves.
Title: Re: Leon Hickman
Post by: pauliewalnuts on August 12, 2025, 07:02:52 PM: A mainstay of growing up in Birmingham in the 70s and 80s when the Evening Mail was a local institution.

Him and Maureen Messent.
Title: Re: Leon Hickman
Post by: dave.woodhall on September 01, 2025, 09:41:11 PM: Quote from: pauliewalnuts on August 12, 2025, 07:02:52 PM
A mainstay of growing up in Birmingham in the 70s and 80s when the Evening Mail was a local institution.

Him and Maureen Messent.

What a truly horrible woman she was.
Title: Re: Leon Hickman
Post by: Richard E on September 01, 2025, 09:43:09 PM: Was it him who wrote that really bizarre match report after the unwashed beat us 2-0 at Villa Park at the beginning of the Graham Taylor era?
Title: Re: Leon Hickman
Post by: dave.woodhall on September 01, 2025, 09:57:55 PM: Quote from: Richard E on September 01, 2025, 09:43:09 PM
Was it him who wrote that really bizarre match report after the unwashed beat us 2-0 at Villa Park at the beginning of the Graham Taylor era?

It was.
Title: Re: Leon Hickman
Post by: PeterWithe on September 02, 2025, 08:13:04 AM: ‘The tower block kids from Chelmsley beat the aristocracy of Edgebaston’ or similar nonsense?