Cyrille Regis

[harlands plater 17,120]

Dead at 59 from a heart attack.

What a striker he was. RIP.

[dummiesoot 16,231]

One of my favourite players growing up, RIP. 

[MurrayWilson 3,655]

I remember when growing up late 70s and early 80s when west brom were one of the top teams in the country, it was mostly down to him  Cunningham and Brendan batson. It seemed that one or other of them were scoring a hat trick every week.They were some attacking unit. So sad that he should go at such a young age.

[BlearyEyedBear 4,148]

Sad news. RIP.

 

[Shuggy 1,308]

Some player, alongside Lawrie Cunningham. RIP

[JR 1,480]

RIP  Fucking too young

[Billythebear77 10,386]

59 ffs, too young to die.

RIP 

[cushynumber 25,178]

he was a cracking player. The media are falling over themselves to portray the poor treatment of him by fans re his colour though. It was poor - but it was also 40 years ago.

[sandyinroyalblue 16,478]

Part of a really exciting West Brom team in the late 70s and seemed to always be part of the goal of the season competition.

RIP.

[Inigo 33,287]

3 hours ago, cushynumber said:

he was a cracking player. The media are falling over themselves to portray the poor treatment of him by fans re his colour though. It was poor - but it was also 40 years ago.

Why wouldn't that be pretty prominent? It's kinda a massive part of his fame, life and newsworthiness.

The coverage has been thoroughly proper in relation to that. It was 40 years ago, but he's died now, and what normally happens when someone dies is you talk about things that were significant in their life. The most significant stuff in his, as far as public newsworthiness goes, happens to have been 40 years ago.
 

 

 

[cushynumber 25,178]

4 minutes ago, Inigo said:

Why wouldn't that be pretty prominent? It's kinda a massive part of his fame, life and newsworthiness.

The coverage has been thoroughly proper in relation to that. It was 40 years ago, but he's died now, and what normally happens when someone dies is you talk about things that were significant in their life. The most significant stuff in his, as far as public newsworthiness goes, happens to have been 40 years ago.
 

 

 

fair enough.

[Inigo 33,287]

2 minutes ago, cushynumber said:

fair enough.

How disappointingly reasonable.

[AlCapone 7,678]

who all saw him play at Ibrox in the tennent Caledonian cup?

[cushynumber 25,178]

2 hours ago, Inigo said:

How disappointingly reasonable.

however.....all the white modern journos jumping on the bandwagon today is fucking sickening.

[sandyinroyalblue 16,478]

3 minutes ago, cushynumber said:

however.....all the white modern journos jumping on the bandwagon today is fucking sickening.

Their silence when a Premiership player is accused of racism as opposed to a fan is deafening.

[cushynumber 25,178]

1 minute ago, sandyinroyalblue said:

Their silence when a Premiership player is accused of racism as opposed to a fan is deafening.

its not even that. Its people that have never met the man and barely heard of him suddenly eulogising his role of promoting black people in sport and painting him as a saint. Im not disputing his role in that, or what the man went through, its the rush of celebs to jump on the anti racist bandwagon that I find self-serving

Gabby Logan step forward.

[Inigo 33,287]

15 minutes ago, cushynumber said:

however.....all the white modern journos jumping on the bandwagon today is fucking sickening.

Haven't read any of that so can't take you up on the argument I'm trying to provoke.

[cushynumber 25,178]

1 minute ago, Inigo said:

Haven't read any of that so can't take you up on the argument I'm trying to provoke.

How disappointingly ill-prepared

[sandyinroyalblue 16,478]

7 minutes ago, cushynumber said:

its not even that. Its people that have never met the man and barely heard of him suddenly eulogising his role of promoting black people in sport and painting him as a saint. Im not disputing his role in that, or what the man went through, its the rush of celebs to jump on the anti racist bandwagon that I find self-serving

Gabby Logan step forward.

It's a pretty one dimensional picture of a man who suffered terrible racism being portrayed today but my main memory of him is that of a cracking big centre forward and his legacy as a footballer is equally important to his legacy of being one of the first black players to play for England.

[cushynumber 25,178]

Just now, sandyinroyalblue said:

It's a pretty one dimensional picture of a man who suffered terrible racism being portrayed today but my main memory of him is that of a cracking big centre forward and his legacy as footballer is equally important to his legacy of one of the first black players to play for England.

I agree totally.

[Inigo 33,287]

13 minutes ago, cushynumber said:

How disappointingly ill-prepared

Indeed. Busy washing my hair today, I'm afraid.

[LegendofCoop 18,057]

Great player and one I'm sure must have inspired a young Mark Walters. 59 is way too young! Just also wondering, did he play alongside Willie Johnston? That would have been some combination.

[sandyinroyalblue 16,478]

Cyrille Regis gets West Brom's 5th goal 

 

[Sparkle 54,513]

4 hours ago, AlCapone said:

who all saw him play at Ibrox in the tennent Caledonian cup?

What year?  My first game when I was wee was against West Brom and I remember a big black player with dyed red or orange hair - was that him? Early eighties maybe?

[sandyinroyalblue 16,478]

6 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

What year?  My first game when I was wee was against West Brom and I remember a big black player with dyed red or orange hair - was that him? Early eighties maybe?

First time I seen McCoist playing for Rangers was a friendly against West Brom at Ibrox in 1983,the Tennent Caledonian tournaments were mid to late 70s.