Toepoke Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Just watched this fascinating documentary (in spite of Adrian Chiles). Worth a look... http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b084fmgv/whites-vs-blacks-how-football-changed-a-nation Times have changed thankfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Can't access it here. Who won? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stocky Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 3-2 to the'' blacks''.. really interesting programme.. how far we have come.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishcumnock Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Good programme except for Chile's..loved watching Regis in his day,nice one cyril! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumnio Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Watching this now, seems incredibly surreal that this was common place, and not very long ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 23 hours ago, stocky said: 3-2 to the'' blacks''.. really interesting programme.. how far we have come.. I know Would probably be 5 or 6 nothing today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 15 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said: I know Would probably be 5 or 6 nothing today Really? Where are you getting that from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 2 hours ago, Ormond said: Really? Where are you getting that from? Welbeck Walcott Rose Rashford Dele Alli Walker Defoe Sturridge Sterling Townsend Oxlade Chamberlain Smalling Need i go on ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 6 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said: Welbeck Walcott Rose Rashford Dele Alli Walker Defoe Sturridge Sterling Townsend Oxlade Chamberlain Smalling Need i go on ? I had thought you were talking in general about players across the globe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnyTJS Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 (edited) Can't see it here either. We certainly have come a long way. Clyde Best for West Ham was the only black player I remember from early MotD watching. Before my time but Charlie Williams played 150+ times for Rovers in the '50s. Edited November 29, 2016 by DonnyTJS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverbear Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 1 hour ago, DonnyTJS said: Can't see it here either. We certainly have come a long way. Clyde Best for West Ham was the only black player I remember from early MotD watching. Before my time but Charlie Williams played 150+ times for Rovers in the '50s. Never saw Charlie Williams play (obviously ) but saw him on stage when he was a comedian. He used to handle hecklers by threatening to move in next door to them if they didn't shut up. Albert Johansson of Leeds was the first black footballer I saw play & remember being shocked by the monkey chants & bananas thrown. I never thought I'd witness the same scenes in Scotland 20+ yrs later when Mark Walters suffered the same racial abuse on his debut & the game had to be stopped so the pitch could be cleared of bananas. We have come a long way indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotunited Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 The story about lawrie Cunningham was quite funny - 3 guys abuse him and wife in street, he confronts them, beats them up and one of the guys suddenly realises who it is that has beat them up and is star struck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted November 29, 2016 Author Share Posted November 29, 2016 5 minutes ago, Scotunited said: The story about lawrie Cunningham was quite funny - 3 guys abuse him and wife in street, he confronts them, beats them up and one of the guys suddenly realises who it is that has beat them up and is star struck. Aye that was some story indeed. What a player he was too. Him and Kaz Deyna died in car crashes within a few weeks IIRC.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellyman Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 7 hours ago, DonnyTJS said: Can't see it here either. We certainly have come a long way. Clyde Best for West Ham was the only black player I remember from early MotD watching. Before my time but Charlie Williams played 150+ times for Rovers in the '50s. Clyde Best always got the recognition of being the first black player in the original English first division but Ipswich Town had a guy called Johnny Miller who played the season before Best [68-69 season] , Miller was born and bred in Ipswich so can rightly be called the first English black player to play in the top flight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwng Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Victor kasule for Albion rovers is the first black player I remember seeing. Couldn't of been many in Scotland at the time. Especially the lower leagues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 We did have the world's first black international player... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Watson_(footballer,_born_1856 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 What would your all time white 11 vs black 11 be ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishcumnock Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Eusebio followed by 10 auchinleck Talbot players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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