Career
Paish was chief coach for South Africa at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Wilf married Margaret H. Norman in 1957 and they had two daughters. His hobby was philately, and in the 1980s he was a well-known figure, as a part-time stamp dealer, at stamp fairs in the West Yorkshire area.
He died after a long illness at the age of 77 on 29 January 2010.