Roly Gregoire Article

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Jme2 said:
Can't remember any specific examples for Roly, he didn't play many games, but it was a very racist time at football games . Probably worse in the north as it was 99.5 % white and culturally a backwater. All wrong and thankfully changed for the better. Cowie wasn't the best in terms of money so not surprised he didn't get what was promised. He wasn't at the right level but should have been supported.
I hope he gets invited back again and the club looks after him , it must have been a very lonely and depressing time for him...
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Cowie wasn't chairman when Gregoire played for us, Keith Collings was. In fact I don't even think he was on the board then.
 
Brainy Dose said:
It's a really shameful,upsetting article,which goes a way to countering our current euphoria. Those who want to put us down will seize on it.
All I can say is that it was nearly 50 years ago.....the vast majority of our people have become more educated now and this current side is full of black players, all of whom are loved and respected by every genuine fan and by people of our City, unconditionally.
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Not wishing to condone rascism in any shape or form but thankfully the UK has come a long way since the 70's. The BBC have a deplorable history of showing blatently rascist content in their programmes in the past and I cannot remember any retrospective apology fot their behaviour. At least SAFC are attempting to right a historical wrong.
 
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