# The Three Degrees

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- Book: [The Three Degrees](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-rees/the-three-degrees) ([The Three Degrees.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-rees/the-three-degrees.md))
- Authors: [Paul Rees](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-rees)
- Publisher: constable
- ISBN: 978-14-7211-926-1
- Published: 2015-02-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

When Cyrille Regis became one of the first black players to be selected for the full England team, he was sent a package in the mail. Inside it was a silver bullet and a note that read: ‘You’ll get one of these through your knees if you step on our Wembley turf.’ In the 1978/79 football season Regis' club West Bromwich Albion, an unglamorous and little publicised club from the West Midlands, became the first British football team to field three black players: Cyrille Regis, Laurie Cunningham and Brendon Batson. They did so against the backdrop of the most divisive and poisonous racial tension in the UK’s history – a time when the National Front movement was at its most virulent. This book will tell the story of a defining and groundbreaking chapter in the history of British football and the country as a whole. The story is one about sport but also as much one about social change.