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The Non-League Football Paper Team
21 January 2018

Football can be proud of legend Cyrille

Glowing tributes have been written elsewhere, but I wasn’t going to let it pass without putting my own forward. It was devastating to read the news of the passing of the great Cyrille Regis this week, at the age of 59. Clicking on the BBC website and seeing an iconic image of the great man wrestling a couple of centre-halves, it was a timely reminder that even the strongest are too easily taken from us long before their time.
Like a lot of blokes my age, I grew up on a diet of watching tough football in the 1980s. The game had become tribal by t...

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