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 #31Coaching Staff
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16-01-2018 05:34 AM #32Coaching Staff
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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 #33@hibs.net private member
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What a fantastic eulogy that is.
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16-01-2018 09:49 AM #34Coaching Staff
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How can you add to that? Originally Posted by Kato
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Rest in peace Cyrille
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16-01-2018 10:01 AM #35Coaching Staff
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Quite fantastic piece of writing Originally Posted by NAE NOOKIE
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16-01-2018 10:26 AM #36Matron
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Wonderful Originally Posted by Kato
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RIP Cyrille.
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16-01-2018 11:24 AM #37Coaching Staff
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Beautifully written eulogy Originally Posted by Kato
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16-01-2018 02:09 PM #38Left by mutual consent!
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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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16-01-2018 11:24 PM #39Private Members Prediction League Winner
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The man was a pathfinder, opened the door for what we enjoy today. RIP
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17-01-2018 06:10 AM #40Testimonial Due
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Now THAT is a tribute. Hard for me to understand the level of hatred generated by people when I was a school boy.its not so long ago as the article makes clear. Originally Posted by Kato
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17-01-2018 09:52 PM #41@hibs.net private member
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Seems to be on BBC2 at 11.15 tonight, no doubt as a consequence of Cyrille's passing. Originally Posted by LustForLeith
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There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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Ricky Hill? Originally Posted by 17SquirrelPower
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18-01-2018 12:05 AM #43Coaching Staff
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Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
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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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I thought it was a compelling watch, and interesting to hear the views of players and fans from the time, both black and white. Originally Posted by Doddie
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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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I’m guessing the lack of responses to the previous post you were answering was that Hibs didn’t have any black players until relatively recently. Originally Posted by Jim44
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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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Ricky Hill was before him, no? Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
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18-01-2018 07:36 AM #48This guy definitely existed ....... he was probably a minor reserve team player. Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
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I really can't recall Ricky Hill playing for us? Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Hill
This Ricky Hill or a different one?
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He was from Bermuda I think and wore about ten strips. Don’t think he played for the first team. Originally Posted by HoboHarry
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It was a different one. Originally Posted by HoboHarry
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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.
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