blacks v whites football game

[Clash]

Does anyone remember this black v whites game? Hours of fun on the ZX Spectrum in the early 80s !

haha

As long the casette didn't crash!

Loved Football Manager on the Spectrum

Made by 80s icon Kevin Toms of course.



Although looking at him here he looks like Harry Kane's dad

[Allgunsblazin]

When the Empire Windrush passenger ship docked at Tilbury from Jamaica on 22 June 1948, it marked the start of the postwar immigration boom which was to change British society. Images of the African-Caribbean passengers filing off the gangplank have become part of the country's social history. After WWII, Britain encouraged immigration from Commonwealth countries. To a large extent this was to help rebuild the country as there was a shortage of labour at the time. Windrush carried 492 migrants who were coming to a country promising prosperity and employment. Among them were the calypso artists Lord Kitchener and Lord Beginner. Arrivals were temporarily housed near Brixton; the town's Windrush Square commemorates the ship's arrival. The majority remained to settle permanently, and now form a central part of British society. The ship itself made its final voyage in 1954. This newspaper article from the Evening Standard records the day before the ship arrived at port, when an aeroplane, paid for by the newspaper, flew out to greet the ship.

Did anyone see the documentary and reanactment of this the other night?
The above was taken from the British Library and it looks so so sweet, but did you know?

The Government were not ready for them, so they put them up in Air Raid shelters.
If the Government were not prepared then it must have confused the fuck out of the population at the time, all stems from communication and Governments were absolutely appalling, these poor fuckers were not made welcome from the start....

[robbo10]

Does anyone remember this black v whites game? Hours of fun on the ZX Spectrum in the early 80s !

haha

As long the casette didn't crash!

Loved Football Manager on the Spectrum

Atic Attac or Radar Rat Race for me......fuck me,remember sitting there for 45 minutes with the beeping noise hoping the game loaded!

[StuartL]

Does anyone remember this black v whites game? Hours of fun on the ZX Spectrum in the early 80s !

haha

As long the casette didn't crash!

Loved Football Manager on the Spectrum

Atic Attac or Radar Rat Race for me......fuck me,remember sitting there for 45 minutes with the beeping noise hoping the game loaded!

I loved manic miner & jet set Willy !

[robbo10]

Racism was not only rampant in the 70's is was instilled into the very fabric of the country !
I was brought up in a society that confused me ,Policemen and all authority figures were white.
Everyday racism was normal , even school teachers were racist until I moved to Kent and then there simply were no black people but the very few Asian were scandalously abused but not in my school as it was 100 pct white so I didn’t see any .
It confused me that white people were happy to imitate and dance to black music ,but not happy to mix with them .
Football at Arsenal always had loads of Black faces off the pitch and gradually some on it .
I've never heard anyone getting abused for bieng Irish at Arsenal as there were scores of Irish - English in the region and many of the pubs were Irish , as much and perhaps even more than in Kilburn, in Holloway/Archway/Kentish town were massively Irish ,still are but I accepted that it existed .
I hate the thought of a white v blacks football game its segregation !

E2 where I grew up already had a big Caribbean influx when I was a kid,the old Jamaican boys were good as gold,but I do remember my old man gave them some stick which they took in good humour,always laughing at his shit jokes,humouring the silly old bastard,just the Alf Garnet type of stuff that I'd seen on TV.It was a melting pot of great music and people,( where I first heard Ska and Reggae,which I love to this day) I dont think we noticed the racism then,maybe it was just kind of accepted in 1970's England? it was just my mates, some of which were white,some of which were black and one we had who was Turkish,I even had a mate who supported the scum.My uncle John was a huge Irishman so that was the norm for me being around his Irish family,I must admit I dont remember many black faces at Highbury but many Irish accents,

I too moved to Kent about 1982 and the abuse I heard towards the Indians was crazy,my school was about 3 quarters white and a quarter Indians,I'd never really seen an Indian til I moved out of London.

[Rugby Gooner]

Documentary on B.B.C. 2 tonight at 9.00pm about the Blacks v Whites game which took place in May 1979 at W.B.A.

[REB]

cheers

[robbo10]

cheers

No that's on Dave at 10.....