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First I have heard of this. How times have changed. The documentary is on BBC2 on Sunday (27th).
'WE THOUGHT IT WAS FINE' Cyrille Regis says he didn’t give the 1979 football match Whites vs Blacks a second thought
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Adrien Chiles discovers the story of the match in a new documentary
BY JON HORSLEY 26th November 2016, 12:19 am
For West Bromwich Albion footballer Len Cantello’s testimonial match on 16 May 1979, there was a game played at The Hawthorns that is inconceivable to think would ever happen today – a team of black players versus white players.
The story of the match and the struggles of black players in the 1970s and 80s are explored in a new documentary, Whites Vs Blacks: How Football Changed A Nation, in which host Adrian Chiles tracks down some of the participants and fans to discuss the game.
“We thought it was fine,” says former England striker Cyrille Regis, who played in the fundraiser. “We didn’t give it a second thought. I don’t remember who came up with the idea, but it didn’t bother us at all; it was a way to get money for a teammate.”
Around 30 per cent of players in English football leagues now are black, whereas 40 years ago there were so few black professionals that it was hard to get a team together.
“I think there were only four black players playing in the top division then,” says Cyrille, now 58.
“There was Laurie Cunningham, Brendon Batson and me at West Brom, and I think Viv Anderson had just been promoted with Nottingham Forest. So we had a few people from the lower leagues [on the team].”
The match itself ended 3-2 to Cyrille’s side and passed without any great drama – but it was played against a horrific backdrop of overt racism, which would seem impossibly grotesque to young football fans nowadays.
“You had the National Front campaigning outside the ground, getting skinheads on side,” explains Cyrille.
“You’d have up to 10,000 of them chanting racist abuse at you. You’d have hundreds of bananas hurled at you. You’d get called names – the ‘n’ word, ‘you black b******d’. I had a bullet through the post on my first England call-up.”
Cyrille explains how the players got through that era by expressing themselves using football.
“It makes you angry,” he admits.
“So what do you do with that anger? We chose to use our ability on the pitch to fight that. They were giving us stick, but we had a really good side and our teammates encouraged us, so we were beating their teams.”
Cyrille was happy to take part in the documentary as he believes that despite the ugly fury and abuse aimed at him, his football career was the best time of his life.
“Two years before that match, I was an electrician on a building site,” he explains.
“I worked eight-hour days in the freezing cold. So when I was given the chance to play football for a living… are you kidding me? No one was going to take that away from me. No one.”
On the show, retired stars including The Sun columnist Ian Wright talk about the black players – including Cyrille – who inspired them, but Cyrille refuses to give himself special status.
The match itself ended 3-2 to Cyrille’s side and passed without any great drama – but it was played against a horrific backdrop of overt racism
“I didn’t feel like a figurehead,” he admits.
“History teaches us all lessons, but at the time I was focused on getting in the team and staying there. Seeing us playing broke stereotypes. They used to say that: ‘Black players had no bottle, couldn’t play in the cold, couldn’t play in goal.’ They were typical views in the early 70s.
“But we were a good team. And I suppose seeing players like me from Harlesden, Laurie from Tottenham, and Brendan – who was from a similar background – made young black men think: ‘If they can do it, so can I.’ But at the time, you don’t realise you’re important.”
NEW! Whites Vs Blacks: How Football Changed A Nation Sunday 9pm BBC2
Celtic Soul is launched on Vimeo on-demand on Christmas Day. See www.celticsoul.ca for more info.
Canadian actor Jay Baruchel swaps Hollywood for Parkhead in new film about Celtic The Montreal-abased actor idolised Henrik Larsson and Aiden McGeady when growing up and his new film about Celtic will be launched online around Christmas.
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BYBRIAN MCIVER
He's starred in some of the most successful comedies of the past decade and is the lead in the billion dollar How to Train Your Dragon franchise.
But for his next movie, Canadian-born actor Jay Baruchel has swapped Hollywood for Parkhead, with a major new film all about football giants Celtic.
The Montreal-based actor became a massive fan of the Scots champions while playing Championship Manager and idolised star player Henrik Larsson, remaining a major fan ever since.
Earlier this year, he teamed up with sports presenter Eoin O’Callaghan to make a documentary all about Jay’s love for the club and followed him on a journey from Canada to his ancestral home in Ireland, and finally to Glasgow for his first match at Celtic Park.
The resulting film Celtic Soul, which sees Jay attend a game with pal Greg Hemphill and play the crossbar challenge with Kris Commons and John Collins, is released in cinemas in Canada this week and will be launched online around the world this Christmas.
The 34-year-old actor, best known for comedies such as This is the End and Knocked Up as well as big-budget films such as The Sorceror’s Apprentice and Tropic Thunder, said it was one of the biggest honours of his life to be welcomed with open arms in Glasgow.
“For me it started with Championship Manager, and when I saw my first Henrik Larsson highlights I obviously fell in love with him like a generation of Scots did, and he was followed shortly by Aiden McGeady who was my favourite player in the world for a long time.
“There was these awesome athletes in these beautiful jerseys, and my mother’s family is 95 percent of Irish descent and we were raised with a huge sense of that, so seeing the shamrock and the green and hearing the songs from the stands, after a cursory bit of research I knew it was a team that was meant for me and was always waiting for me.
“It’s gonna sound incredibly hoaky to say but I feel like I’ve become part of this incredible family.
“I’ve gotten so much love and solidarity and kind words from people across the world because of it.
“The film came up when Eoin and I were talking Celtic and it came up that I was working on my family tree and started waxing a bit poetic about my family’s history and the voyage they took.
“We started realising there was a really important, deep connection between Canada and Scotland and Scotland and Ireland and Ireland and Canada.”
The film begins with Jay showing Eoin the home of his beloved ice hockey team, the Montreal Canadiens.
They then visit Ireland to trace his ancestors who left Westport in the 1840s, and finally end up in Glasgow visiting Celtic pubs and historic sites such as St. Mary’s church where the club was formed.
Part lads’ road trip, part social history adventure, the film shows the actor achieving his ambition of seeing the Scots champions play first hand.
Eoin O’ Callaghan said: “Jay is a history and a sports obsessive, so for Celtic, he gets an ideal mix of both things. I was surprised at how authentic he was in supporting Celtic. He subscribes to Celtic TV, watches all the games, knows everything about them.
“When we went to the game, he was like a kid on Christmas morning.”
Jay realised his dream when he was a special guest as Celtic beat Inverness CT 3-0 in February this year, and got to walk on the pitch as well as meet former assistant manager John Collins, captain Scott Brown, Charlie Mulgrew and Kris Commons at Lennoxtown for a training session
Jay added: “I think the SPL is the last pure football league in Europe, and think Celtic is Europe’s most important team in my opinion, so to get to be there, it was all incredibly genuine. That’s a pretty important pitch and they are very proud and protective of it, especially before matchtime when nobody is allowed to walk out there, and they made an allowance for us, I couldn’t believe it, man.
“You can’t help but think of all the men who walked through that tunnel and on that pitch, and to get to come out at half-time and do the Paradise Windfall raffle – I don’t know what I did to deserve it, but Celtic has been very, very kind to me and I know when I am out there, it’s gonna sound lofty and w**ky, but I was out there for every kid that wears the jersey and wonders.”
As well as making what the pals hope is an entertaining and funny story about football and friendship, Jay said hopes viewers take a serious message from he film as it saw him trace his family’s migration past.
He said: “I hope people feel the importance of what we experienced and that people can substitute my family’s experience for theirs, especially on this side of the world, where everyone is from somewhere else.”
●Celtic Soul is launched on Vimeo on-demand on Christmas Day. See www.celticsoul.ca for more info.
Celtic Soul is launched on Vimeo on-demand on Christmas Day. See www.celticsoul.ca for more info.
Canadian actor Jay Baruchel swaps Hollywood for Parkhead in new film about Celtic The Montreal-abased actor idolised Henrik Larsson and Aiden McGeady when growing up and his new film about Celtic will be launched online around Christmas.
Spoiler: click to toggle
BYBRIAN MCIVER
He's starred in some of the most successful comedies of the past decade and is the lead in the billion dollar How to Train Your Dragon franchise.
But for his next movie, Canadian-born actor Jay Baruchel has swapped Hollywood for Parkhead, with a major new film all about football giants Celtic.
The Montreal-based actor became a massive fan of the Scots champions while playing Championship Manager and idolised star player Henrik Larsson, remaining a major fan ever since.
Earlier this year, he teamed up with sports presenter Eoin O’Callaghan to make a documentary all about Jay’s love for the club and followed him on a journey from Canada to his ancestral home in Ireland, and finally to Glasgow for his first match at Celtic Park.
The resulting film Celtic Soul, which sees Jay attend a game with pal Greg Hemphill and play the crossbar challenge with Kris Commons and John Collins, is released in cinemas in Canada this week and will be launched online around the world this Christmas.
The 34-year-old actor, best known for comedies such as This is the End and Knocked Up as well as big-budget films such as The Sorceror’s Apprentice and Tropic Thunder, said it was one of the biggest honours of his life to be welcomed with open arms in Glasgow.
“For me it started with Championship Manager, and when I saw my first Henrik Larsson highlights I obviously fell in love with him like a generation of Scots did, and he was followed shortly by Aiden McGeady who was my favourite player in the world for a long time.
“There was these awesome athletes in these beautiful jerseys, and my mother’s family is 95 percent of Irish descent and we were raised with a huge sense of that, so seeing the shamrock and the green and hearing the songs from the stands, after a cursory bit of research I knew it was a team that was meant for me and was always waiting for me.
“It’s gonna sound incredibly hoaky to say but I feel like I’ve become part of this incredible family.
“I’ve gotten so much love and solidarity and kind words from people across the world because of it.
“The film came up when Eoin and I were talking Celtic and it came up that I was working on my family tree and started waxing a bit poetic about my family’s history and the voyage they took.
“We started realising there was a really important, deep connection between Canada and Scotland and Scotland and Ireland and Ireland and Canada.”
The film begins with Jay showing Eoin the home of his beloved ice hockey team, the Montreal Canadiens.
They then visit Ireland to trace his ancestors who left Westport in the 1840s, and finally end up in Glasgow visiting Celtic pubs and historic sites such as St. Mary’s church where the club was formed.
Part lads’ road trip, part social history adventure, the film shows the actor achieving his ambition of seeing the Scots champions play first hand.
Eoin O’ Callaghan said: “Jay is a history and a sports obsessive, so for Celtic, he gets an ideal mix of both things. I was surprised at how authentic he was in supporting Celtic. He subscribes to Celtic TV, watches all the games, knows everything about them.
“When we went to the game, he was like a kid on Christmas morning.”
Jay realised his dream when he was a special guest as Celtic beat Inverness CT 3-0 in February this year, and got to walk on the pitch as well as meet former assistant manager John Collins, captain Scott Brown, Charlie Mulgrew and Kris Commons at Lennoxtown for a training session
Jay added: “I think the SPL is the last pure football league in Europe, and think Celtic is Europe’s most important team in my opinion, so to get to be there, it was all incredibly genuine. That’s a pretty important pitch and they are very proud and protective of it, especially before matchtime when nobody is allowed to walk out there, and they made an allowance for us, I couldn’t believe it, man.
“You can’t help but think of all the men who walked through that tunnel and on that pitch, and to get to come out at half-time and do the Paradise Windfall raffle – I don’t know what I did to deserve it, but Celtic has been very, very kind to me and I know when I am out there, it’s gonna sound lofty and w**ky, but I was out there for every kid that wears the jersey and wonders.”
As well as making what the pals hope is an entertaining and funny story about football and friendship, Jay said hopes viewers take a serious message from he film as it saw him trace his family’s migration past.
He said: “I hope people feel the importance of what we experienced and that people can substitute my family’s experience for theirs, especially on this side of the world, where everyone is from somewhere else.”
●Celtic Soul is launched on Vimeo on-demand on Christmas Day. See www.celticsoul.ca for more info.
Celtic Soul is launched on Vimeo on-demand on Christmas Day. See www.celticsoul.ca for more info.
Canadian actor Jay Baruchel swaps Hollywood for Parkhead in new film about Celtic The Montreal-abased actor idolised Henrik Larsson and Aiden McGeady when growing up and his new film about Celtic will be launched online around Christmas.
Spoiler: click to toggle
BYBRIAN MCIVER
He's starred in some of the most successful comedies of the past decade and is the lead in the billion dollar How to Train Your Dragon franchise.
But for his next movie, Canadian-born actor Jay Baruchel has swapped Hollywood for Parkhead, with a major new film all about football giants Celtic.
The Montreal-based actor became a massive fan of the Scots champions while playing Championship Manager and idolised star player Henrik Larsson, remaining a major fan ever since.
Earlier this year, he teamed up with sports presenter Eoin O’Callaghan to make a documentary all about Jay’s love for the club and followed him on a journey from Canada to his ancestral home in Ireland, and finally to Glasgow for his first match at Celtic Park.
The resulting film Celtic Soul, which sees Jay attend a game with pal Greg Hemphill and play the crossbar challenge with Kris Commons and John Collins, is released in cinemas in Canada this week and will be launched online around the world this Christmas.
The 34-year-old actor, best known for comedies such as This is the End and Knocked Up as well as big-budget films such as The Sorceror’s Apprentice and Tropic Thunder, said it was one of the biggest honours of his life to be welcomed with open arms in Glasgow.
“For me it started with Championship Manager, and when I saw my first Henrik Larsson highlights I obviously fell in love with him like a generation of Scots did, and he was followed shortly by Aiden McGeady who was my favourite player in the world for a long time.
“There was these awesome athletes in these beautiful jerseys, and my mother’s family is 95 percent of Irish descent and we were raised with a huge sense of that, so seeing the shamrock and the green and hearing the songs from the stands, after a cursory bit of research I knew it was a team that was meant for me and was always waiting for me.
“It’s gonna sound incredibly hoaky to say but I feel like I’ve become part of this incredible family.
“I’ve gotten so much love and solidarity and kind words from people across the world because of it.
“The film came up when Eoin and I were talking Celtic and it came up that I was working on my family tree and started waxing a bit poetic about my family’s history and the voyage they took.
“We started realising there was a really important, deep connection between Canada and Scotland and Scotland and Ireland and Ireland and Canada.”
The film begins with Jay showing Eoin the home of his beloved ice hockey team, the Montreal Canadiens.
They then visit Ireland to trace his ancestors who left Westport in the 1840s, and finally end up in Glasgow visiting Celtic pubs and historic sites such as St. Mary’s church where the club was formed.
Part lads’ road trip, part social history adventure, the film shows the actor achieving his ambition of seeing the Scots champions play first hand.
Eoin O’ Callaghan said: “Jay is a history and a sports obsessive, so for Celtic, he gets an ideal mix of both things. I was surprised at how authentic he was in supporting Celtic. He subscribes to Celtic TV, watches all the games, knows everything about them.
“When we went to the game, he was like a kid on Christmas morning.”
Jay realised his dream when he was a special guest as Celtic beat Inverness CT 3-0 in February this year, and got to walk on the pitch as well as meet former assistant manager John Collins, captain Scott Brown, Charlie Mulgrew and Kris Commons at Lennoxtown for a training session
Jay added: “I think the SPL is the last pure football league in Europe, and think Celtic is Europe’s most important team in my opinion, so to get to be there, it was all incredibly genuine. That’s a pretty important pitch and they are very proud and protective of it, especially before matchtime when nobody is allowed to walk out there, and they made an allowance for us, I couldn’t believe it, man.
“You can’t help but think of all the men who walked through that tunnel and on that pitch, and to get to come out at half-time and do the Paradise Windfall raffle – I don’t know what I did to deserve it, but Celtic has been very, very kind to me and I know when I am out there, it’s gonna sound lofty and w**ky, but I was out there for every kid that wears the jersey and wonders.”
As well as making what the pals hope is an entertaining and funny story about football and friendship, Jay said hopes viewers take a serious message from he film as it saw him trace his family’s migration past.
He said: “I hope people feel the importance of what we experienced and that people can substitute my family’s experience for theirs, especially on this side of the world, where everyone is from somewhere else.”
●Celtic Soul is launched on Vimeo on-demand on Christmas Day. See www.celticsoul.ca for more info.
Brazilian side Chapecoense's plane has crashed in Colombia, they were on the way to play the second leg of the Copa Sudamericana - equivalent of the Europa League.
LEGEND LIVES ON Celtic icon Jimmy Johnstone immortalised as a garden gnome thanks to help of Hoops-mad actor Martin Compston
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The Lisbon Lion - voted the club's greatest ever player - passed away in 2006 after a battle with motor neurone disease
BY STUART MACDONALD 28th November 2016, 12:11 pm
CELTIC legend Jimmy Johnstone has been immortalised as a GARDEN GNOME.
Scots business partners Andrew McDermid, 47, and Charlie Boyle, 44, created a mini lookalike of Jinky, who becomes the first sports star to feature in their new Lawn Legends.
The Greenock pair – behind the gnomes of The Stone Roses and Oasis – turned to Hoops-mad actor pal Martin Compston to help get permission for the statue, who received the thumbs up from the ex-Scotland winger’s family.
The ten inches high figure recreates the Lisbon Lion – voted the club’s greatest ever player – wearing his Hoops strip and celebrating a goal by holding his right arm up in the air.
And Line of Duty and Sweet Sixteen star Compston told how he persuaded his pals to branch out into football gnomes.
He said: “They had done the Gnome Roses and I got a set for my garden, I thought they were great.
“But I thought they were missing a trick by not doing football gnomes.
“The ones that sprung to mind for me was the Scott Brown pose with El Hadji Diouf and Jimmy Johnstone with the hand in the air.
“I asked them to mock up a prototype and see what it looked like.
“We approached Jimmy’s family and talked it through with them. They were great with us so they are on board.”
The model costs £40 and orders can be made online and can be delivered in time for Christmas.
A description of the product reads: “Introducing the first figure in the Lawn Legends Range – The Lord of the Wing, Jimmy ‘Jinky’ Johnstone.
“Jinky was most famous in his career with Glasgow Celtic Football Club,where he played an integral role in the 1967 Lisbon campaign where Celtic won the European Cup.
'Players also reported very high levels of discrimination - which Fifpro categorised as either racial, sexual or religious - by fans, other players, coaching staff and third parties.
Strangely, this was only equalled by Scotland - whose discrimination is largely driven by the religious divide between Catholic Celtic and Protestant Rangers.'
Serves the greedy bastard right! Scottish football could have done with Sir Michael Burton instead of LNS.
Tony Pulis ordered to pay Crystal Palace £3.77m after ‘deceiving tribunal’
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• West Brom coach loses appeal against Premier League mediation panel • Pulis claimed he urgently needed money to buy land for children
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Tony Pulis must pay Crystal Palace £3.77m after he was found to have deceived a Premier League managers’ arbitration tribunal. He lost his appeal against an arbitration ruling that followed his departure from the club in 2014.
The West Bromwich Albion manager left his post at Selhurst Park less than 48 hours before their opening game of the season against Arsenal after a dispute over a £2m “survival” bonus he was due for saving Palace from relegation. The Palace owner, Steve Parish, agreed to pay Pulis the bonus more than two weeks before it was due but demanded he return it after his sudden and unexpected departure two days later.
In March the Premier League’s mediation panel found in favour of Palace and Parish, with Pulis ordered to return the bonus and pay a further £1m in legal costs and damages for breach of contract. That decision was appealed by Pulis but a ruling from the commercial court last week dismissed his appeal and ordered him to pay liquidated damages for £1.5m as well as £2.276m damages for “deceit”.
Details emerged in a written ruling published by the judge on Monday. Pulis alleged there had been “serious irregularity” in the panel’s initial decision, which was taken under the FA’s Rule K Arbitrations, a method of resolving disputes without going to court which usually ensures confidentiality. However, Judge Sir Michael Burton dismissed Pulis’s appeal after upholding the panel’s verdict he had made two fraudulent misrepresentations.
The first related to a claim Pulis had assured Parish he was committed to the club and would be staying until at least 31 August 2014, when the bonus was due to be paid. He had told Palace he urgently needed the money early so “he could buy some land for his children” but Sir Michael found there was a “lack of evidence” to support this claim.
Pulis had also alleged a “heated players meeting” (HPM) took place on 12 August; but the mediation panel ruled it had taken place on 8 August – four days before he received the payment. That was despite oral evidence to the contrary from the Palace players Lewis Price and Stuart O’Keefe. That was dismissed by the judge due to evidence provided by Parish that he had not been at the training ground, including his presence at a hairdressers on the day in question.
“The arbitrators set the oral evidence for the claimant against the following,” read the ruling. “First, the evidence of Mr Parish, the chairman, in the following paragraphs. In paragraph 45 the evidence of Mr Parish is recorded that the HPM could not have taken place on 12 August as the claimant claimed, since he, Mr Parish, was not at the training ground on 12 August.
“But so far as Mr Parish is concerned, the arbitrators set out in paragraphs 56, 57, 62, 63, 64 and 78 to 79 the evidence which was adduced as to Mr Parish’s movements on 12 August, and the supportive evidence of taxi fares, of telecommunications evidence called as expert evidence, and the hairdressing salon at which he attended on the relevant morning when the HPM is said to have occurred, and the arbitrators were persuaded by that evidence.”
The panel added that Pulis was “not willing to concede the heated players’ meeting did not occur on 12 August because he otherwise had no explanation [for his departure]”. The original ruling found Pulis’s standards of conduct had “been shown to be disgraceful”. That was referenced in Sir Michael’s final decision which said he had “reached a consequential conclusion that it was appropriate in the circumstances to make an award of indemnity costs because of their conclusions as to the conduct of the claimant.”
The judge said he had analysed Pulis’s complaints about the arbitrators’ decisions and concluded his challenge should be dismissed. He said he would enforce the damages awarded by the arbitrators. Sir Michael said the arbitration panel had heard evidence behind closed doors.
He had also analysed Pulis’s challenge at a private hearing – in line with judges’ normal policy but thought it appropriate his ruling should be made public.