Cyrille Regis

Yep.

Cyril Regis, because that's quite famous, isn't it?

Yep.

Obviously Sam Johnston.

Because when he was a young lad, football grounds were not places that people of colour could go to.

And he looked up to people like Cyril Regis and Brendan Batson.

Oh, I can be a footballer.

I can do this.

I think his heritage is Ghanaian, but there are a lot of that kind of generation that have heritage from the Caribbean.

If you talk about Viv Anderson, Cyril Regis, Laurie Cunningham, that kind of...

The first...

I mean, there were players before him.

So I followed the career of black players quite closely thereafter.

and I was really thrilled when people like Cyril Regis and Laurie Cunningham were making their way through the game with West Bromwich Albion and the likes of Bibb Anderson made his England debut in 1978 and closer to home in our league I remember City playing Watford and Luther Bliss absolutely tearing us apart a couple of times but it really took still took some time before black players became the norm as it were within the York City ranks

So welcome to a special episode of York Horse Football.

I did say in my last interview with Steve Tuttle that I was very unlikely to do another episode in 2026, but I'm really honoured to have been asked by York City Football Club to contribute an episode as part of the club's Black History Month content and the Together Against Racism fixture against Ackerton Stanley next week.

Yeah.

And it was a bit like that legendary goal that Cyril Regis scored.

Do you remember that? He was-

Oh, yeah, yeah