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Kevin Campbell

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Khalekan said:
Not at all.

No more or no less racist than any other club was back in the 20th.

In fact, we were playing young Cliff Marshall in 1975, when you would not have seen a black face on the pitch for United, Arsenal or the RS.
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Yeah you're right - but we were the last ones to shake it off tho, and this fella was the catalyst without a doubt
Never considered myself a racist but I'm not gunna lie and say I didn't laugh as the bananas were thrown. (ashamed of the fact to be honest)
Different times but thankfully those days are gone.
 
Khalekan said:
Not “most” of them Phil.....ALL of them.

For some reason we got lumbered with the stigma more than most.

It was the late 20th century equivalent of us being told to know our place and be “thankful” to Allardyce.

When John Barnes signed for the RS some Kopites went to The Pit and painted “I’d rather be dead than see an N worder play in red” on the wall.

Some of them even chucked bananas at him when he made his debut.
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Yeah you are right mate. I don’t understand why Everton were singled out.
 
Khalekan said:
Not “most” of them Phil.....ALL of them.

For some reason we got lumbered with the stigma more than most.

It was the late 20th century equivalent of us being told to know our place and be “thankful” to Allardyce.

When John Barnes signed for the RS some Kopites went to The Pit and painted “I’d rather be dead than see an N worder play in red” on the wall.

Some of them even chucked bananas at him when he made his debut.
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Up to the 1950s it was very rare to see a coloured professional footballer anywhere. It was Tranmere Rovers who caused national headlines by signing a Nigerian(?) striker named Onyeali. Historians on here can probably elaborate on this, in case my memory is misleading me again.
 

Boss fella.

My first game was when he scored two against Coventry during that run where he kept us up and he's been my hero ever since

Met him at a sportsmans dinner at the players and he was an all round great fella.
 
allezlesbleus said:
What I loved about him was that he had a greater awareness and pride of what a big club we were and should be despite the Terri le situation we were in. None of that poor little Everton crap. Blue shirt on, chest out. « Don’t you know who we are? ´kin Everton that’s who.
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Yep mate,another “non-local” lad who understood,the likes of Kev put these numerous “boyhood blues”to shame:)
 

He had pride and love for us before he did the business and we all loved him back which makes for a special relationship. I think we saved him from a very hostile time he had in Turkey where they were proper weird and sacrificed animals and rubbed blood on his boots before a match I read... might have dreamt that???


Edit- found this... disgraceful that
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/1999/feb/25/newsstory.sport
 

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