Nobody Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 On 14/05/2022 at 20:48, joeyt said: Fun thread 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 10 minutes ago, Nobody said: He's here forever.gif 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 6 minutes ago, The Butcher said: Didn't Villa have a mascot called 'Darkie'? 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 09:05, reefatoon said: Lovely to see, well done Shaka. Oh and Hayley......... 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 14 hours ago, Mike said: The 80's! That's wiiiiiild. 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...
gbandit Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Should have gotten into cheerleading or synchronised swimming Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 (edited) Am I making it up or did someone call Andy Cole ‘Blackie Milburn’. I really hope I’m not making it up because that means I’ve imagined it and that’d be horrible. Edited May 16, 2022 by Optimistic Nut Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRaspberryJam Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 1 minute ago, Optimistic Nut said: Am I making it up or did Sir John Hall call Andy Cole ‘Blackie Milburn’. I really hope I’m not making it up because that means I’ve imagined it and that’d be horrible. https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/greatest-individual-seasons-andy-cole-brings-goals-newcastle-199394 "But aside from the fact that he wasn’t a centre-forward in the traditional St James’ Park mould – although he did have a sinewy strength that belied his slight frame – there was another notable difference between Cole and previous Gallowgate End legends. “If you'd said 10 years ago that the hero of the Toon Army would be a black lad, you would probably have got some pretty strange looks,” explained Newcastle fanzine The Mag, perhaps recalling another striker, Tony Cunningham, who was cruelly nicknamed ‘Blackie Milburn’ less than a decade earlier." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manxst Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 “MUCH-TRAVELLED striker Tony Cunningham had a “Where are they now” piece – he’s now a solicitor in Lincoln – in last weekend’s Sunday Times. Particularly he recalled his time with Newcastle United under Jack Charlton, a manager infamous for never remembering players’ name. Usually they were either Big Lad or Little Lad. Cunningham was different. “He called me Blackie Milburn, but meant no offence by it,” he says.” https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/backtrack/8824567.tributes-bill-shankly-annfield/?action=complain&cid=9116231 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 I remember SJH saying something along the lines of how when Ferdinand came to his house he was standing in front of something black and he couldn't see him. Proper standard stereotypical casual racism from that generation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 (edited) Darkie originated from workers going down the mines and coming out, well, dark. Edited May 16, 2022 by HTT II Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happinesstan Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Always liked Tony Cunningham. Can't remember why but I took an instant shine to him. Don't remember him pulling up any trees. I think I just liked the fact that it was a big fuck off to the NF lot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 John Barnes is on record saying racism towards him wasn’t half as bad as it was towards any foreign player black or white and homophobia was even worse. I’m an 80s child and love the music from that era and had a good time growing up in general, but it was a grim time even for the whiteies, the working class that is. I imagine it was fucking awful for those non white, in football or general society. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Yous all need to read up on Walter Tull, I’m sure the BBC did a canny documentary and a kind of series on his life and times. Great story and what a legend and hero. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 17 minutes ago, Happinesstan said: Always liked Tony Cunningham. Can't remember why but I took an instant shine to him. Don't remember him pulling up any trees. I think I just liked the fact that it was a big fuck off to the NF lot. And he put a shift in. When your team isn't good you can at least appreciate effort. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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