Laurie Cunningham and Cyrille Regis in their pomp in one of my favourite ever games from many years ago. Listen to the early commentary to see how things have changed......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdqre2b3inQ
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16-01-2018 12:13 AM #31
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16-01-2018 05:34 AM #32
To be fair to the commentator (Barry Davies, i think?) he's only said 'crowd are booing the black players'. Which is preferable to the collective denial we became used to over the years, and still are in the case of The Rangers sectarianism.
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16-01-2018 06:17 AM #33This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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16-01-2018 09:49 AM #34This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Rest in peace Cyrille
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16-01-2018 02:09 PM #38
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Slightly before my time, but paved way for those who played in British football still fighting racism, while just trying to excel.
Got me thinking? Who was first black player for Hibs?
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17-01-2018 06:10 AM #40This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-01-2018 09:52 PM #41This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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17-01-2018 10:06 PM #42This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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18-01-2018 12:05 AM #43This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It was. Excellent piece. It centres on Adrian Chiles' memories of the game - it was a testimonial for Len Cantello at The Hawthorns and covered a whole lot of ground from the '70's up to 2016.
Things have changed, maybe, but not as much as we might like to think.
It's on I-Player - worth a watch.Last edited by --------; 18-01-2018 at 12:14 AM.
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18-01-2018 12:49 AM #44This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I'm not a huge fan of Chiles but he handled it fairly sensitively - his obvious WBA allegiance possibly helped.
Sadly your sentence in bold rings true - we've not lacked stories recently about discrimination and racism in the game.There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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18-01-2018 05:13 AM #45
I have a very vague recollections of a black ( possibly mixed race )player who played occasionally in Hibs first team around the late fifties. There was a thread on this message board on this theme about eight years ago and I mentioned this guy. At the time I suggested his first name might have been Laurie but in retrospect I think I might have been stupidly confusing him with Laurie Cunningham who of course had no links with Hibs.
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18-01-2018 06:24 AM #46This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
That’s no surprise - my memory of the Panini sticker albums of the early to mid-eighties was that all Scottish teams had pale white guys with rather dodgy and wavy barnets, often with a moustache, perhaps intended to make up for the poor aforementioned barnet.
Apart from the ginger players who had freckles to spare and therefore moustaches were superfluous....
Being serious, Kevin Harper is the first player I can remember.There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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18-01-2018 07:13 AM #47This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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18-01-2018 11:37 AM #49This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Hill
This Ricky Hill or a different one?
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18-01-2018 01:46 PM #50This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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18-01-2018 02:02 PM #51This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
He wasn't here long. But I think he stuck in folk's minds quite simply because of his race.
JonnyBoy gives him a name-check here...in a reserve game.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...20hibs&f=false
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