Please verify your email address by opening the welcome email in your email inbox. Check your spam folder if you can't find it there. We have sent another confimation email. Instructions on setting a new password have been sent to your email address. Facebook Login Sign up the easy way. Setting Primary Image. Emlyn Hughes Born: Penyrheol Cemetery Ael-y-Bryn. Bedwas, Caerphilly , Wales. Pieinthesky September 11, Pieinthesky September 10, Nearby Graves.
We found more records about Emlyn Hughes. Relationships on the headstone add. Gwyndaf Hughes. Not Available - 23 Sep Mair Hughes. Relationships added by users add. Cemetery Name. When I went to Liverpool he was the main man. He was the best person to learn from and a larger than life character. I came in as an inexperienced player and he was so effervescent," he said. He never dreamt of losing any game. He never stopped, he was up and down the pitch, cajoling everyone. He'll not be forgotten. I would have been very pleased to have had Emlyn in any of my squads.
The bigger the game, the better he was. He said: "He was a really great player, quite obviously, because otherwise you wouldn't win so many caps for England. 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. Graham McCann spoke for all Liverpool and Wolves fans when he said: "In infants school, I got my mum to sew a number six on the back of my tiny red footie shirt.
Everyone knew whose shirt it was meant to be. Hughes earned 62 caps for the national team and led Liverpool to a string of honours while at the Anfield club. Hughes was the first player to lift the European Cup for Liverpool after the victory over Borussia Moenchengladbach in He was awarded an OBE in for his services to sport and the larger than life personality was nicknamed Crazy Horse.
The legendary player won the Football Writers' Player of the Year in and completed his full set of domestic honours when he won the League Cup with Wolves in Hughes had been battling a brain tumour for the last 15 months but his condition deteriorated in the last few days. His wife Barbara said: "He died at his home in Sheffield with his family around him.
Liverpool will hold a minute's silence in rememberance of Hughes before their Carling Cup match against Middlesbrough on Wednesday. Included in the squad for the World Cup in Mexico but does not play in the finals.
Named Football Writers' Player of the Year. Won the last of his 62 England caps as a substitute against Scotland, having captained his country 23 times.
Worked as a player-manager at Rotherham while also playing for Hull, Mansfield and Swansea before winding up his playing career. The outsider pulled up at the 16th fence. November 9 - Hughes dies of a brain tumour aged Not registered? Register here. Dozens of former footballers mingled with Hughes's family and friends to remember the player nicknamed Crazy Horse, who led the all-conquering Liverpool side of the s.
Hughes' coffin was carried into Sheffield Cathedral with the England and Liverpool FC flags folded on top, alongside a garland of white flowers. It was followed into the service by his wife Barbara, his daughter, Emma, who also read a lesson, and his son, Emlyn Junior.
One of the six pallbearers was the former Everton player Mike Newell - just one a host of sports stars attending the 45 minute service. Former cricket umpire Dickie Bird and former Question of Sport - of which Hughes was a team captain - host David Coleman were also among the mourners.
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