The three degrees
Rees, Paul (Music journalist)2014
Book
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.Subject: A book detailing the football careers and the discrimination endured by Cyrille Regis, Laurie Cunningham and Brendon Batson when they played for West Bromich Albion during the 1970s.
Main title:
The three degrees / Paul Rees.
Author:
Rees, Paul (Music journalist), author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Constable, 2014.London : Constable, 2014.
Collation:
xiv, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781472106902 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.3340922796.334AR.7.01REE796.334 REE796.334REEAR.7.01/REE
Local class:
796.334
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1562370