{"id":558979,"date":"2026-04-30T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558979\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:15:09","slug":"birmingham-city-legend-jeff-halls-family-upset-at-mural-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558979\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City legend Jeff Hall’s family upset at mural vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miller is calling for the artwork to be restored.<\/p>\n

“The mural includes his phrase ‘one last push’, reflecting that he was a fighter. He had such flare and charisma,” she added.<\/p>\n

In March 1959, after a 1-1 draw with Portsmouth, Hall complained he was feeling unwell and a few days later he was in hospital, diagnosed with polio.<\/p>\n

“My uncle was always thinking of others; by refusing to get on that coach with his team because he was cautious thinking if it is cold, he could spread it,” his niece said.<\/p>\n

“Within 12 days he died.”<\/p>\n

Hall’s widow, Dawn, dedicated herself to raising awareness <\/a>about the dangers of the disease.<\/p>\n

“My grieving aunt and grieving grandmother went to the press and urged people to take the vaccine,” Miller added.<\/p>\n

Soon after his sudden passing, the Birmingham City football team got vaccinated and so began a city-wide effort to immunise the people of Birmingham.<\/p>\n

“Birmingham did what Birmingham did best and I’m so proud, people were going to pop-up clinics all over the city,” his niece said.<\/p>\n

“The uptake was so impressive, that they ran out.”<\/p>\n

The city council has been approached for a response over the vandalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miller is calling for the artwork to be restored. “The mural includes his phrase ‘one last push’, reflecting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-558979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}