Lazarus Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 8 hours ago, rickyprickles said: is this worth a watch? I turned it off after a few minutes last night as I had never heard of the geezer. Yes, yes and yes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Does anyone know... Is it possible to watch a game on Sky and simultaneously have the same game streamed on SkyGo without disrupting viewing of the game on the TV? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRaspberryJam Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 3 minutes ago, toon25 said: Does anyone know... Is it possible to watch a game on Sky and simultaneously have the same game streamed on SkyGo without disrupting viewing of the game on the TV? I don't even want to know how that could be done, in a way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 15 hours ago, Lazarus said: Anyone remember Sonny Pike? Absolutely insane story. I'm guessing every kid who loved football and was born between about 1980 and 1985 would have heard of him in the '90s - though his fame was truly built by Ajax youth academy of our imaginations; do young'uns today still think of Ajax's youth side being a conveyor belt of talent, where they all play football in the same style as the first team? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 NUFC never had a black player until 1982? Am I googling that wrong? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 3 minutes ago, Mike said: NUFC never had a black player until 1982? Am I googling that wrong? Not sure but would imagine that would apply to most U.K. clubs sadly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 4 minutes ago, Mike said: NUFC never had a black player until 1982? Am I googling that wrong? Sounds about right, be the same for an awful lot of teams I’d imagine, although weirdly this bloke played pre the club being formed for another Newcastle team. https://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/roots/2003/10/arthur_wharton.shtml Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 The 80's! That's wiiiiiild. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 8 hours ago, toon25 said: Does anyone know... Is it possible to watch a game on Sky and simultaneously have the same game streamed on SkyGo without disrupting viewing of the game on the TV? Yes. Thats essentially what SkyGo is for. Me and my Dad use my brother's SkyGo account and we all watch the same game at the same time. They play separately. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 9 minutes ago, Mike said: The 80's! That's wiiiiiild. Viv Anderson was the first black player to represent England in 1978. It's ridiculous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokerprince2004 Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 On 14/05/2022 at 19:48, joeyt said: Fun thread Haha some of those replies had me in stitches. Loved this one : Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mike Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 29 minutes ago, midds said: Viv Anderson was the first black player to represent England in 1978. It's ridiculous. That is absolutely insane. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 19 minutes ago, Mike said: That is absolutely insane. Not massively. Healthy mix of lack of opportunity due to the obvious and just not having that many black people before then. Britain had an influx of black immigrant post WW2, before that you’re talking low thousands in total, and it was basically became the kids of that generation who came here who made up the first generation of black British footballers. A quick deeks and the census says just over 1% of the British population was classified black in 1981. Cricket was the same. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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 8 minutes ago, 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. 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 2 hours ago, Mike said: The 80's! That's wiiiiiild. 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 7 minutes ago, Rafalove said: Is racism in football getting worse or are these things just being reported and talked about more? 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...
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