City and Black History

[TShed]

Stan Horne, 1965, was City's first black player, for those who want to know.

Still going strong and a massive blue

He was at Tony Books memorial golf tournament the other week at Mere in his 80s now

 

[Oohvonkyvonky]

Michael Jackson had one outside Fulham!

He doesn't count, he was white at the end

 

[bernard o'silver]

Didn’t Sissay have poem on side of Birch Villa?

He did

 

[johnnytapia]

He doesn't count, he was white at the end

Both ends?

 

[the blue panther]

Love it! Thank you.

 

[stonerblue]

My mount rushmore of black City players:

Goater, SWP, Kompany, Yaya

Williams, SWP, Goater, Vinny

 

[hateutd]

Cool cats

 

[AK45]

Great vid that

 

[TShed]

He doesn't count, he was white at the end

Never seen Jacko or Jimmy Saville in the same room after that

 

[Ric]

Nice to see Lemn Sissay as a guest of honour at the game yesterday.

 

[staffsblue]

Nice to see Lemn Sissay as a guest of honour at the game yesterday.

I thought he was great, and he seemed genuinely touched to see his words displayed around the stadium.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

He doesn't count, he was white at the end

He was probably blue at the very end.

 

[eyalluvitt]

He was probably blue at the very end.

And Claret, Blowing Bubbles

 

[eyalluvitt]

My mount rushmore of black City players:

Goater, SWP, Kompany, Yaya

No Fitzroy Simpson?

 

[Axel Freed]

Does Mark-Vivian Foe not deserve to be part of any statue grouping?

No

 

[Axel Freed]

This threads reminds me that perhaps I should’ve chosen Alex Williams in the thread about who most encapsulates Man City.

You’d be hard pressed to find a man who’s done more for us on and off the pitch.

Buy his book

 

[trueblue gio]

Would I be right in thinking that Vinnie's statue is the first statue of a person of colour outside of London or Cardiff? (And I can't think of any in Ireland either).

Just an observation, by the way. I hope I'm not seen as posting this in a patronising "aren't we great" sort of way.

A 12ft (3.7m) statue of Jack Leslie has been placed outside the ground of Plymouth Argyle, the club he scored 137 times for in the 1920s and 1930s.

In 1925 he was selected for the England squad, and his family said he was later denied his place due to the colour of his skin.

Jack Leslie statue unveiled at Plymouth Argyle

Jack Leslie scored 137 times for Plymouth Argyle in the 1920s and 1930s.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Maybe we could have our own “We Stand Tall” symbolism rather than the jaded take a knee. After all, those were Lemn’s words.

 

[Jimmieblue]

Lovely article about Roger Palmer on City app. City always had a great sprinkling of talented black players in the 60s and 70s … that’s just how it was.

 

[traditionalleesy]

Sir Billy Boston, rugby league legend, has 3 statues. I know you are talking football but the beautiful game might lag behind the M62, working class game.

Is there one of Clive Sullivan in Hull?