The Three Degrees: The Men Who Changed British Football Forever

ISBN-13: 9781472119261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015

Paul Rees

Opis

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 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 tells the story of a defining and groundbreaking chapter in the history of British football and the country as a whole.