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First Black Footballers To Play For Premier League Clubs

Started by The Gaffer · 9 months ago

Incredibly, it wasn’t until 1980 that a black player debuted for Liverpool FC. Howard Gayle, the silky winger, come on as a second half substitute for David Fairclough against Manchester City.
While Liverpool was late to the game, the history of the other clubs in the top fl ... Continue reading »

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DoublePivot
8 months ago

Tull played few games for us and was dropped and eventually sold because of the uproar over a black player. So we did the right thing and then chickened out. He is a very interesting person and I believe there is a movie being made about his life.

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ChrissMari
8 months ago

while it's an interesting idea, the amount of unknowns and possibly should have seen it been scrapped.

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Stephen
8 months ago

West Ham were the first English club to field 3 black players in the same game: Ade Coker, Clyde Best and Clive Charles, vs Tottenham, April 1973.

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ls7
9 months ago

Gaffer, this is an interesting idea for an article but I wish you'd given a little more background. Was there a known discrimination problem at certain clubs?

Why did you focus on Liverpool and not Chelsea or Newcastle? According to your numbers, those clubs were last to field someone.

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The Gaffer
8 months ago

Lonnie, good question about the discrimination. To be honest, I don't have the answer to that one.

Cheers,
The Gaffer

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kkfla737
9 months ago

West Brom is known for being the first club to extensively recruit and play black players in the 1980s, so while some of these other clubs preceded them in having a single afro-caribe player in the squad, West Brom were the real pioneers of what today's Premier League have become.

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