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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 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. It is the story is one about sport but also as much one about social change.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Sports & outdoor recreation Ball games

• Full title: Three Degrees
• Author: Paul Rees
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781472119261
• ISBN: 1472119266
• ID: 04804728
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 234 g
• Dimensions: 127 × 198 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. February 2015

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