{"id":111834,"date":"2018-12-29T15:37:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T12:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/former-arsenal-chairman-hill-wood-dies-at-age-82\/"},"modified":"2018-12-29T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T12:37:34","slug":"former-arsenal-chairman-hill-wood-dies-at-age-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/former-arsenal-chairman-hill-wood-dies-at-age-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Arsenal chairman Hill-Wood dies at age 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <!-- Geocode starts -->  <!-- Geocode ends --> <!-- related story headlines starts --> <!-- related story headlines ends --> <!-- related story headlines starts --> <!-- begin: RELATED STORIES FLOAT RIGHT--> <!-- end: RELATED STORIES FLOAT RIGHT--> <!-- related story headlines ends --> <!-- story body starts --> <\/p>\n<p>LONDON (AP) &#8211; Peter Hill-Wood, the chairman of Arsenal for 31 years who presided over the English club&#8217;s title-winning eras of George Graham and Arsene Wenger, has died. He was 82.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal announced the death of Hill-Wood on Friday, without disclosing any details.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing a long family tradition of involvement in the London team &#8211; both his grandfather and father served as chairman &#8211; Hill-Wood joined Arsenal&#8217;s board in 1962 and was chairman from 1982-2013. During that time, the club moved from Highbury to its current Emirates Stadium. He stepped down from the role because of ill health.<\/p>\n<p>Hill-Wood oversaw the appointment in 1986 of Graham, who guided Arsenal to two English league titles, the FA Cup, the League Cup and the European Cup Winners&#8217; Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Wenger joined as manager in 1996, and the Gunners won three Premier League titles and four FA Cups under the Frenchman.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal says &#8220;Peter and his family&#8217;s influence on the club cannot be understated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>More AP English soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/tag\/PremierLeague and https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Sports<\/p>\n<p> <!-- story body ends -->  <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easttexasmatters.com\/sports\/former-arsenal-chairman-hillwood-dies-at-age-82\/1678071459\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] LONDON (AP) &#8211; Peter Hill-Wood, the chairman of Arsenal for 31 years who presided over the English club&#8217;s title-winning eras of George Graham and Arsene Wenger, has died. He was 82. Arsenal announced the death of Hill-Wood on Friday, without disclosing any details. Continuing a long family tradition of involvement in the London team &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}