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Article: Football: Barriers that had to be broken; Some 26 years after Viv Anderson's debut for England, what chance of an all-black team? Chief Football Writer Hyder Jawad reports.(Sport)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2004
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Byline: Hyder Jawad
I magine the scene: the England team strolls on to the pitch for the national anthems before a crucial match and each player is black. Pure fiction, some might say, but this scenario is now more likely than that of an all-white England team.
As Cyrille Regis says, the skin colour does not matter so long as the players are the best available to the England head coach, but there is little doubt that we are close to the day when that team will consist solely of black players.
Regis, who made his name as a dynamic striker with West ...