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Thanks for this and quite honestly I had not even thought of the time before the 60s and 70s. I think the Albion had a player called Dennis Foreman who was South African and of mixed race. I also remember Albert Johannnson -was he at Leeds? Yes, you are right and I think it would be hard to...

Might I ask who this is? I assume that it is in the public domain, since you know about it?

Abject apologies all round, mum had to see the funny side of things, and I got away with it. It was mentioned in Xmas cards to the neighbour for many years afterwards.

As the thread seems to have evolved towards the changing attitudes over the years, I would be interested to hear others' views on this: In the late 1970s at the Albion it was common to hear monkey chants aimed at black players in the opposing teams - oh, yes it was! It was in the days when black...

Thanks for the post. I think your first sentence is rather harsh, as the original post was talking about another generation, when attitudes were clearly different. Of course there are schools where the ethos is as you mention, without the need for corporal punishment, though I also feel that...

Yes, yet another example of how times have changed and that attitudes are different. Obviously can't speak for all, but in experience albeit, most people of the older generation would say, rightly or wrongly, that getting the cane did not do them any harm in the long run. I came home from...

I think you've done a relatively good job of showing how people that normally moan about the world being "too PC" just don't like the fact they can't say racist things anymore without being called a racist. This is far too simplistic in my humble opinion. 40 years ago attitudes were very...