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Post by hatter_in_macc on Jan 15, 2018 10:25:17 GMT
Another of the game's greats gone - and at a shockingly young age. RIP, Cyrille.
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Post by gazz on Jan 15, 2018 11:19:21 GMT
That's awful news - 59 really is no age at all.
RIP
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Post by countyfan on Jan 15, 2018 11:55:57 GMT
Terrible news, RIP Cyrille
Just seen his goal of the season from about 81 - 82 against Norwich on the BBC news website, it's worth a look!
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Jan 15, 2018 12:11:01 GMT
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Jan 15, 2018 13:00:48 GMT
And, somewhere in my loft, I have a copy of this...  |
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Post by gazz on Jan 15, 2018 13:11:39 GMT
Just seen his goal of the season from about 81 - 82 against Norwich on the BBC news website, it's worth a look! Superb strike, he really did chuck the kitchen sink into that one - I remember it well! |
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Jan 15, 2018 19:13:36 GMT
i don't need to watch it again - it's there, clear, in my mind's eye, just like justin fashanu's against liverpool a season or two earlier. i also liked this: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42693383 tribute from brian deane - not just to cyrille, but to all the trailblazers from that generation; brendan batson, laurie cunningham, george berry, clyde best, paul canoville, oshor williams, cec podd, alex williams and all. not entirely sure of the need for subtitles though. RIP cyrille. seemed a good man, and was properly important. the landscape change he and some of those above helped usher in meant that ian wright and brian deane and kevin francis could come through more easily, 'just' having an unfairly tough time rather than an impossible one. |
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Post by dudleyhatter on Jan 15, 2018 20:01:03 GMT
RIP Cyrille
It is hard to imagine the level of abuse he and his compatriots received while playing the game we love. There were small snippets of abuse I remember at County, but nothing like he received. Yet he always stood proudly up to it. Immense skill and immense strength too.
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Post by gazz on Jan 15, 2018 20:09:27 GMT
i don't need to watch it again - it's there, clear, in my mind's eye, just like justin fashanu's against liverpool a season or two earlier. i also liked this: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42693383 tribute from brian deane - not just to cyrille, but to all the trailblazers from that generation; brendan batson, laurie cunningham, george berry, clyde best, paul canoville, oshor williams, cec podd, alex williams and all. not entirely sure of the need for subtitles though. RIP cyrille. seemed a good man, and was properly important. the landscape change he and some of those above helped usher in meant that ian wright and brian deane and kevin francis could come through more easily, 'just' having an unfairly tough time rather than an impossible one. That's a belting post, mate, as was Brian Deane's emotional tribute - had a bit of a lump in the throat myself watching that. It's a real shame that the main reason Cyrille will be remembered is for the way he conducted himself in the face of the most disgusting racial abuse, when really what he should have been remembered for was his fantastic contribution as a footballer and person - it almost makes me ashamed to be a human being, but thankfully the knuckle-draggers responsible aren't worthy of being considered as such to me. |
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Jan 15, 2018 21:00:42 GMT
It's a real shame that the main reason Cyrille will be remembered is for the way he conducted himself in the face of the most disgusting racial abuse that's it exactly. he has to be remembered for his grace under the vilest of fire, but f*** me, where was this country then? why aren't we just remembering him as a great servant of west brom and coventry. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2018 22:39:53 GMT
I remember watching WBA turn a decent City side over at Maine Road in 1978. Cunningham and Regis absolutely tore the City defence apart. Regis in particular pulled Dave Watson inside out with his touch, speed and sheer power and aggression. Even after all these years I can remember the admiration I had at the end of the game, Watson was after all one of the best Centre Halves in the country at the time and he may as well not have turned up
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jan 16, 2018 18:23:38 GMT
That WBA side were just coming together when I was teaching in Coventry and coaching the district schoolboys' team.
We had a lot of young black players trying to break into representative football at the time and Cyrille was one of
the role models around to inspire.
RIP CR.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 18:57:16 GMT
That WBA side were just coming together when I was teaching in Coventry and coaching the district schoolboys' team. We had a lot of young black players trying to break into representative football at the time and Cyrille was one of the role models around to inspire. RIP CR. Having been watching the game at various levels for over 40 years now, that game is one of my outstanding memories not because it was an important game or anything. It was an ordinary league match but the power and athleticism and the sheer arrogance of these young lads in taking the England centre half to the cleaners was astonishing. It was one of the featured games on motd and such was the performance by Regis that it merited comment to Ron Atkinson during the post match interview. That's the other thing that I remember. Atkinson's response was that they'd soon coach it out of him. There's something depressingly English about that |
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Post by gazz on Jan 17, 2018 19:58:36 GMT
Dion Dublin's tribute in the studio on MOTD just now was an emotional one to say the least, I almost choked up with him.
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Jan 17, 2018 20:05:56 GMT
yeah there was one from him on the bbc website last night, really showing what cyrille and the context in which he plied his trade meant to him. jason roberts too in a text article, about cyrille being his uncle.
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