Cyrille Regis. WBA's black ace from the 80s. Only 59
Good player and one of my fav's from watching 80's football.
Aye what a game that was. Enjoyed watching West Brom back in the day. Him and Cunningham were immese players. I wonder what their worth would be in todays market. Would big Ron gwt away with it today by calling those 2 players and Brendan Bateson the Three Degress.
There was another joke did the rounds of questionable taste back then.
WBA had Len Cantello and another boy whose name ended in an O, might have been Mayo or some such.
The joke was "Who are the 5 WBA players whose names end in O?"
The answer was the two boys fa's name ended in O and three s***os.
Now this joke was doing the rounds in mainstream media places back then, I'm sure I read it in "Shoot" magazine FFS.
Thankfully, we've moved on a lot since then and it was the three high profile WBA boys that were at the forefront of change (and took obscene amounts of abuse).
Regis was a cracking big striker and 59 is afffa young.
RIP fella.
Cunningham died in a car crash.....I still remember with a sizeable amount of shame the racist abuse he and two or three other black fellas got while playing for Orient at the Pitt in the Anglo-Scottish Cup circa 76.
Equally ashamed that the 12 year old me joined in.
Looking back, behaviour like that was reprehensible, but we all did things as 12 yr olds, that we later regret. Crazy to think now, that stuff like that went on all over the country.
The important thing now is, no way would our kids behave in that way now, the intergreted society that they were brought up in has seen to that.