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| Cyrille Regis - This forward was eligible to play international football for either England or France (he was born in French Guiana, and moved with his family to England in 1962), but he chose the former and ended his career with five senior caps. A striker ahead of his time in many ways, Regis was an immensely powerful athlete who scored for fun, most notably in the colours of West Brom, Coventry City and then Aston Villa. wba Laurie Cunningham - The third player in West Brom's Three Degrees, Cunningham was the first black player to represent England at any level (in an Under-21 friendly vs Scotland in 1977). An extremely gifted left winger, Cunningham's brilliant form for West Brom in their great side of the late 1970s earned him a shock move to Real Madrid. He was the first British player to sign for Real, and he spent four relatively successful years in Spain, before he moved on to Sporting Gijon, in 1983. Tragically, Lawrie died in a car crash in Madrid in 1989, aged just 33. |
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