The Three Degrees

Rees, Paul

ISBN 10: 1472106903 / ISBN 13: 9781472106902

Editore: Constable, 2014

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• Titolo: The Three Degrees
• Editore: Constable
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1472106903
• ISBN 13: 9781472106902
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: very good

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Riassunto

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.

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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 1978, West Bromich Albion - an unheralded club in the the old First Division - became the first British football team to field three black players, at a time when Britain was experiencing the greatest racial tensions in her history. Under the maverick management of the flamboyant Ron Atkinson, Regis and his teammates Laurie Cunningham and Brendan Batson, were christened 'The Three Degrees' and soon became symbols of the social change sweeping the country. At away games, however, Regis, Cunningham and Batson were booed, subjected to monkey chants and pelted with banana skins. Cunningham even had a petrol bomb thrown into his home. Finding courage in their condemnation both on and off the pitch, each was instrumental in making West Brom the most exciting team in the country.

Set against the backdrop of Britain in decline, The Three Degrees is a captivating account of three footballers, their manager, and the sport they came to change forever.