Career
He is also a former English football player who played for Oxford United, Watford, Northampton Town and Leicester City. He has been assistant manager at 6 different clubs, including Queens Park Rangers, and had a difficult but successful stint as manager of Stevenage Borough. During his playing days Hill played for Northampton Town, Watford and Oxford United.
In his time at Northampton, Hill scored 33 league and cup goals in one season, winning the golden boot for finishing as the club"s top goal scorer.
Hill was transferred from Northampton Town to Watford for a Fourth Division record fee of £258,000. He was the last signing made by Graham Taylor before his departure from Watford to manage Aston Villa at the end of the 1986-1987 season.
He did not feature in the plans of incoming manager Dave Bassett and consequently, his stay at Vicarage Road was brief only appearing 4 times: he was transferred to Oxford United for £260,000. Hill had to finish a flourishing career due to a serious knee injury, having amassed 69 goals from just 170 Football League games.
Since retiring from playing the vastly experienced Hill has been assistant manager to John Gregory at both Wycombe Wanderers and Queens Park Rangers, Brian Little at Aston Villa, Martin Wilkinson at Northampton Town, Andy Hessenthaler at Gillingham, Tranmere Rovers and was first-team coach at Reading.
He has also coached at Swindon Town, scouted for Derby County and managed Stevenage Borough. In June 2010, Hill was appointed technical advisor to the Ethiopia national football team and worked with them during African Nations qualifying games. In June 2011, Hill was appointed assistant manager to Football Club Kairat in the Kazakhstan Premier League.
On 12 September 2012, Hill was appointed manager of Conference South club Eastleigh.
In his first season he led Eastleigh to the Conference South Play Office Semi Finals. Under HIll"s guidance he led Eastleigh to the Conference South title and promotion in the 2013-2014 season.
The 2014-2015 season saw Eastleigh in the Conference Premier the highest level of football they"d ever competed at and Hill took Eastleigh to the Play Office Semi Finals at the end of that season.