When Cyrille Regis became one of the first black players to be selected for the full England team, he was sent a package in the mail. Inside it was a silver bullet and a note that read: 'You'll get one of these through your knees if you step on our Wembley turf.'
In the 1978/79 football season Regis' club West Bromwich Albion, an unglamorous and little publicised club from the West Midlands, became the first British football team to field three black players: Cyrille Regis, Laurie Cunningham and Brendon Batson. They did so against the backdrop of the most divisive and poisonous racial tension in the UK's history - a time when the National Front movement was at its most virulent.
This book will tell the story of a defining and groundbreaking chapter in the history of British football and the country as a whole. The story is one about sport but also as much one about social change.
| ISBN: | 9781472119261 |
| Publication date: | 5th February 2015 |
| Author: | Paul Rees |
| Publisher: | Constable an imprint of Little, Brown |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 305 pages |
| Primary Genre | Biographies & Autobiographies |
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