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Cyrille Regis RIP

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  • boggzy
    boggzy Posts: 3,595
    Great player and seemingly a great bloke. R.I.P.
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    By all accounts a lovely man and in 1982 was only the third black man to play for England (which feels insane now).

    This was his last tweet. A tribute to another genuine hero of the sport.

  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    As already been said by others he was a beast of a player. Loads of memories of that WBA team especially when they tore Man Utd a new one at Old Trafford in the late 70's.

    RIP Cyrille Regis

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdqre2b3inQ
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,883
    Terrific player. RIP
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    edited January 2018
    Sad news. One of a very few famous people I have met. Lovely chap. My mum always used to go on about how nice his legs were. Made him blush a little bit when I told him.
  • tonka
    tonka Posts: 46
    Went to college with him when we were training to be an electrician at City and East London college in Bunhill Row
    Great fella Brings it all home when someone passes away that you knew
    Respects to family RIP Cyril Happy fun times in the late 70’s
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,046
    Saw this on the TV in work this morning. Shocked and really saddened. Still think of the footballers I saw in the 70s and 80s as young men and then someone like Cyril passes and you realise we’re all getting older. This was still way too young though. Top player & man. Rest in Peace Cyril.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Legend RIP
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Gutted met him many times and found him a true gent and a legend of British football
  • WSA
    WSA Posts: 1,912
    RIP
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  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    RIP - an absolute legend of the game at a time when the game despite all it's socio-faults was better in many ways to the product on offer now.

    Did he ever play at The Valley - can't think our paths crossed - maybe for Wolves in 93/94?
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    Always thought he was a very modern type of striker, as back then to me a lot of forwards were either large battering ram target men, or nippy penalty box goal poachers

    Regis looks much more like a modern striker, 6ft, athletic and fast, but also with good body strength.
  • Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight Posts: 912
    Cracking player, RIP
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,781
    Very sad. RIP
  • NorthheathAddick
    NorthheathAddick Posts: 4,017
    Sad loss RIP Cyrille
  • Tramp
    Tramp Posts: 202
    Great player RIP

    Ironic that when he was first picked for England, WBA manager Ron Atkinson was asked what is was like to be the Manager of England's first black no 9. He replied "I hadn't noticed he was black". And certainly Ron was the first to embrace the concept that black players could be as good as their white counterparts.

    Many year later Big Ron was sacked by ITV for off mic comments of a highly racial nature.

    Will the real Ron please stand up?
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    Lovely article by Jason Roberts, sums up the man
    http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42690428
  • Welly
    Welly Posts: 493
    RIP far to young very sad.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Moving tribute on BBC 1 (during lead up to Chelsea game).
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    Dion Dublin was choking up but he did make the point that it wasn't just black people who looked up to him, he was universally popular.
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  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    Very sad. Was too young to see him burst onto the scene at WBA, but he Dave Phillips and Dave Bennett were exciting players to watch for Coventry. RIP and condolences to the family.
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    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,446

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