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        4. London — Former West Brom and England forward Cyrille Regis, who blazed a trail for black players, had died at the age of
        5. Regis was born in French Guiana in February but moved to London with his family at the age of five.

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          Regis on Big Ron, racism and death threats sent with a bullet

          Cyrille Regis’s life story is a chilling reminder of a time, not so long ago, when racism was all-too-present in English football, and society, writes JANINE SELF

          Turn back the clock 20 years, a measly two decades, and see if the following does not make you shift uncomfortably in your seat and gaze awkwardly at your shoes in a combination of embarrassment and disbelief.

          It is the caption scrawled crudely across a team photo of Aston Villa.

          “Aston Nigger”.

          The shudderingly awful description refers to the side put out by Ron Atkinson – yes, that Ron Atkinson – during his time as manager of Villa.

          Mark Bosnich and Shaun Teale happened to be the only white faces in the Big Ron line-up and the phlegm-filled bigots were having a field day.

          Cyrille Regis was already in the twilight of his career, a Colossus of a striker and a signed-up member of the black footballing vanguard.

          These days, it is more diffi