Chants of ‘There’s only one Cyrille Regis’ fill the air at service for trailblazing black footballer
Thousands of football fans, former players and relatives have paid a moving tribute to Cyrille Regis, the “gentle, thoughtful, generous, passionate, determined, resilient giant” who blazed a trail for a generation of black footballers.
In a memorial service at West Bromwich Albion’s Hawthorns stadium, a crowd of 2,000 fans broke into rapturous applause and chants of “There’s only one Cyrille Regis” – the song that followed him around England’s football terraces in the 1970s and 80s.
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