Sol Campbell Saying Football Is Racist

Aye she's a good lass still goes to some London Reds games even to this day.

 

Kin ell, thought she'd have used her get out clause. Heart like a lion.

 

Because I have an excellent 'gaydar' and can spot a black man close up!

 

Aye we were all white for some of the Machin years there were a few articles in South Riding about it.

 

Really, mate?

I started watching Barnsley in the '60's and didn't see a black player regularly in our first team until Winston Campbell in 1981/82. For a time, we had a few until Larry May left in 1987. I don't recall any more until Dave Regis, then Clint Marcelle, arrived in 1996. So, for the first 30 years of watching Barnsley, other than for a period of about five years, it was a rarity to see Barnsley selecting a black player. Thankfully, those days are now behind us.

 

I know me too she's not even from tarn. We are meeting up for QPR on Saturday she will provably jack it after seeing our 7 -2-1 formation.

 

Everyone's got a breaking point....

 

I've been watching Barnsley since the late seventies.

Songs and chants that Barnsley fans used to sing that I've clearly heard many times:
"We've got no n.ggers in our team, we've got no n.ggers in our team" - to the tune of He's got the whole world in his hands.
"Trigger, trigger, trigger, shoot that...."
"oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh" every single time a black player got the ball
"n.gger, n.gger, n.ggeroo, n.ggeroo, n.ggeroo" every time a balck player did something half decent.
Every game for years.

Black players for Barnsley during the 80s and early 90s:
Winston Campbell 79-86
Calvin Plummer 83-87
Tony Cunnigham 82-84
Andy Kiwomya 85-86
Larry May 83-87
Viv Anderson 93-94

I make that just 6 players and Kiwomya only played once. I must have missed some out, I just must have done, so I wait to be corrected. But going on my memory, we didn't just have the odd game with no black player in the team, we had whole seasons. No black players at all between 87 and 93? Is that right? Unless Tony Rees had a black parent or grandparent.

I think people forget just how bad it was at Barnsley. It was shocking.

 

Yup, that's pretty much how I remember it.

 

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I'd forgotten Viv Anderson. So he was the only black player between Larry May & David Regis, a gap of nine years.

 

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I think so. I can't for the life in me remember anyone else.

 

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To my memory in chronological order :

Winston Campbell, Tony Cunningham, Andy Kiwomya, Larry May, Calvin Plummer, Viv Anderson, Dave Regis

 

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Thankfully, it's no longer an issue with the vast majority of fans. These days, a player's more likely to be irrationally disliked because of which club he's previously played for, rather than the colour of his skin.

 

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Agreed. It's so much better. We rarely, if ever, hear anything where we are.

Interestingly though, just a few rows back from us, my brother's mates have season tickets. My brother sits with them when he goes to games. I was talking to them all at half time during the Watford game and apparently it's constant racism on their row. We don't hear anything because nothing is ever shouted, but it's just constant murmurs of racist slurs throughout every game.

We've come a long way, we've still a way to go.

 

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So, in the 19 years from when I started watching in '77 up until Clint signing in '96 we couldn't even make up a full team of black players. We'd be hard pressed to field a 5-a-side with any injuries.

And we weren't even the worst. Everton never had any black players.

 

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Was going to say about Everton when Jimmy Cricket mentioned South Riding - remember they did a piece on Everton's dearth of black laikers.

 

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Couldn't agree more.

 

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Same near me constant under breath chuntering new this season. If it carries on I will be having words (probably standing behind my brother when I do...)

 

I have to applaud the bravery of John Dennis in making Anderson manager. I know it didn't exactly work out but in the backdrop of no black players for years a racist and hostile crowd it was a brave brave move. It changed everything I think dragged us into the modern world.