Book Club: Black and Blue, Paul Canoville
Football Ramble
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4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We welcome Chelsea's first black footballer to today's episode of the Book Club, as Kate Mason and Andy Brassell are joined in the studio by Paul Canoville!
Paul's award-winning autobiography Black and Blue paints a vivid picture of a thoughtful man trying to make his way in a world that, in many parts, was not ready to accept him. He joins us in the studio to look back on his challenging life, discuss the influence of his ghostwriter turned friend Rick Glanvill and draw saddening parallels between the abuse he suffered from the stands and the experiences of today's black professional footballers.
You can buy Paul's autobiography here.
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| 0:57.8 | Hello and welcome to Football Wembley Book Club with me, Kate Mason and me, Andy Rassel. |
| 1:17.7 | This week we have a very special book club for you. Andy and I have been reading Paul |
| 1:21.4 | Cannabill's Black and Blue. Cannes was Chelsea's first black player making his debut in 1982 |
| 1:28.1 | and the book charts his route to the heights of professional football and back again. |
| 1:32.5 | With a subtitle how racism, drugs and cancer almost destroyed me, some of it makes grim |
| 1:38.4 | reading. But it's a hugely absorbing story and you're carried along by the charm of |
| 1:42.6 | the man at its heart who feels things deeply and found himself sometimes at sea in a world |
| 1:48.2 | that wasn't designed to help him. |
| 1:50.2 | Cannabill's torment lasted for years and one experience was especially painful. It came |
| 1:55.7 | during a reserve game against another London team, Millwall. |
| 1:59.5 | You see two guys with pillowcases over there and you think, hey, it's real. No, and |
| 2:05.6 | you're like, how can these keep being allowed in the ground like this? And this is a reserve |
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