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.
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9781472119261Number of pages: 320Weight: 230 gDimensions: 132 x 199 x 22 mm
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