The West Brom former players association have announced Cyrille Regis died last night of a heart attack. He was 59.
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Yes agreed - loved Cyrille, who'd been an electrician and played for Hayes I think until he was in his twenties . He seemed to have such zest on the pitch, And the shit he had to put up with...
a bullet through the post
Didnt see Giggler's thread
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Very sad news. He played for Hayes in the year I was born - and only played one season at Church Road - but his achievements in the professional game, and just the feeling that he was a thoroughly decent bloke, mean that he has always been proudly regarded as 'one of ours'.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostOh shit.
Coventry were my local team at university and I used to go to probably on averega every other home game. Cyrille was an absolutely superb player, and the partnership between him and the diminutive Terry Gibson was fantastic. RIP
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Amazing tributes on twitter, Baggies and Coventry fans, people who played with him, all of whom saying what a great player and great guy he was.
And more or less every black player in Britain paying tribute to his role as a trailblazer- like this from Mark Bright: "more than just a footballer, he blazed a trail for every black player who followed him, an inspiration to myself and many players of my era. A humble man and a great man."
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Terrible news to lose such a genuinely iconic (an over-used terms but one Regis deserves) player so young. His importance to players and supporters alike has been clear from the reactions this morning.
His senior career actually started at my local club Molesey for a season prior to his time at Hayes. He returned there a couple of years ago for this portrait and, as I think I’ve said before on here, it captures the man so well :
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- Mar 2008
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- Amersfoort. NL
- Bristol City, RC Lens, Borussia Dortmund, Feyenoord, Bath Women's Roller Derby
- Nobosprits.
New Year's Day 1979. West Brom vs. Bristol City at the Hawthorns. I was in the Bristol end that was happily throwing bananas at Laurie Cunningham when he took corners and singing "Regis, Regis, gimme dat banana". We felt like walking out, but hanging around waiting for the coach outside a 1970s away ground at our age was not a good idea at the time.
Anyway, it shows what these blokes had to put up with at the time. Albion stuffed us 3-1 and played some beautiful football. They really were a great team that year. I remember thinking that Derek Statham was going to a superstar, and with him and Batson piling forward they were beautiful to watch.
Cyrille always came over as a lovely man. A real Midlands hero. I heard even the Wolves fans loved and accepted him.
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Very sad. One of the most iconic footballers of my early teenage years, one of my mates is a Baggie so the big man was always someone we enjoyed watching, or pretending to be in kickabouts - cannot believe he's gone so young.
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Great player, particularly at WBA where I saw him a few times. People are praising him for being a powerful player and he certainly was, but when I saw him at Villa he was really clever. His bare goal stats don't tell anything like the full story about the player he was. Very sad.
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