Wolfcastle Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Don't think Everton did until 1995!! Earl Barrett. Remember a joke on fantasy football about it, also where I know Sonny Pike from. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 On 15/05/2022 at 21:30, Wolfcastle said: Don't think Everton did until 1995!! Earl Barrett. Remember a joke on fantasy football about it, also where I know Sonny Pike from. Expand Everton had Amokachi before that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Aye you're right. Must have been the 93/94 Fantasy Football series. Was a subbuteo based joke. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 (edited) I think Howard Gayle was the first black player, to appear for Newcastle - on loan from Liverpool at the time. Edited May 15, 2022 by Big Geordie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantail Breeze Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 “A teenage Championship footballer will come out as gay in a televised interview next week in a bid to tackle the scourge of homophobia in the sport, it has been claimed. Seems really bizarre in 2022 that this is news, but here we are. Also find it crazy that there is only one gay footballer across the world who is ‘out’. Says a lot about the sport. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 On 15/05/2022 at 20:39, Mike said: The 80's! That's wiiiiiild. Expand We didn’t really get an great influx of other ethnicities until the 1960s Mike really. They certainly didn’t settle in Newcastle to start with and I suppose it wouldn’t be until the 80s that a son of a migrant would be old enough to play. Like the others have said, it wouldn’t just be true of Newcastle. Must have been hard for them though. I remember John Barnes getting inflatable bananas (and maybe even real ones?) chucked at him in a cup final in the 80s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafalove Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 We gave him some pretty terrible abuse at a game (or few) didn’t we? But yeah it would have been difficult not just from the abuse they got from the stands but also from the ignorance with in the game itself. Is racism in football getting worse or are these things just being reported and talked about more? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 On 15/05/2022 at 23:14, Rafalove said: Is racism in football getting worse or are these things just being reported and talked about more? Expand Hard to know but suspect it’s a healthy mix of both and will often depend where you are. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Racism in the country as a whole is getting worse so you can only expect it to be reflected in football fans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 It’s nowhere near as bad as it was in the 70s and 80s when I was growing up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 On 14/05/2022 at 18:48, joeyt said: Fun thread Expand He's here forever.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conjo Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 On 16/05/2022 at 08:38, Nobody said: He's here forever.gif Expand great shout. Does require some background story to compliment it though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 John Barnes when he was at Watford and his namesake, Bobby (West Ham) got terrible abuse at St James, during the 1980's. Monkey noises, being called 'Sooty' and having bananas thrown at them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Butcher Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Didn't Villa have a mascot called 'Darkie'? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manxst Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 On 16/05/2022 at 10:21, The Butcher said: Didn't Villa have a mascot called 'Darkie'? Expand https://www.whoateallthepies.tv/aston_villa/83064/retro-snapshot-darkie-aston-villas-casually-racist-1950s-mascot.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Yikes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Christ. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRaspberryJam Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Ah, that's racist. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Not good. I'm also old enough to remember the skinheads from the National Front, regularly trying to peddle their filth outside the Gallowgate End (as a kid) Bad times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holloway Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 first I've heard of that, dear me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leffe186 Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 On 13/05/2022 at 13:05, reefatoon said: Lovely to see, well done Shaka. Oh and Hayley......... Expand I’m a monster, couldn’t get the phrase “freedom of the titty” out of my head. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leffe186 Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 On 15/05/2022 at 20:39, Mike said: The 80's! That's wiiiiiild. Expand Our first black player was in 1909. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manxst Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Interesting link to first black football players for international teams. The first was for Scotland in 1881, who then didn’t have another black player until 2004! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_black_players_for_European_national_football_teams Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manxst Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/first-black-footballers-book-arthur-wharton-b1722698.html?amp another interesting link regarding a book about the first black player for each of the 92 league clubs. One of the two authors (Hern) is a Mackem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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