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Re: First Black Footballers To Play For Premier League Clubs

thegaffer — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:17:02 -0000

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

Cheers,
The Gaffer

Re: First Black Footballers To Play For Premier League Clubs

DoublePivot — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:00:01 -0000

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.

Re: First Black Footballers To Play For Premier League Clubs

Stephen — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:14:49 -0000

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.

Re: First Black Footballers To Play For Premier League Clubs

ChrissMari — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:04:04 -0000

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

Re: First Black Footballers To Play For Premier League Clubs

kkfla737 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:31:55 -0000

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.

Re: First Black Footballers To Play For Premier League Clubs

lsmetana — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:44:16 -0000

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.