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Football Podcast. Today I'm joined by Derma Kavanaugh. Derma is the author of Different Class, Football, Fashion and Funk, the story of Laurie Cunningham. I spoke to Dermott about the book and also some of the challenges that black footballers faced in that period of British history. Lorry Cunningham was born in Archway, North London in 1956.

As a schoolboy, he was turned down by Arsenal but found employment at nearby latent Orient.

At Orient, where last week a statue of Laurie was unveiled outside the stadium,

he played some of his best ever football, before moving to West Brom in 1977.

At West Brum, Laurie played alongside Brendan Batson and Cyril Regis,

two other prominent black players of the era,

and they became affectionately known as the Three Degrees,

in reference to a popular American singing group.

In 1979, Rail Madrid paid a club record of £950,000 to sign Laurie,

who became the Bernabour's hopeful star player.

A league title and three injuries later, however, and Laurie left Madrid,

his time there having not worked out in the way that he likely would have hoped.

He played for ten clubs throughout his career,

including Leicester, Manchester United, Marseilles and Wimbledon,

where he was a seemingly ill-fitting member of the team's unlikely 1988 Cup win.

Ill-fitting for Lorry was well known

for his skillful football and graceful movement,

the antithesis, perhaps, of the hard-knuckled crazy gang.

In 1989, Laurie died in a car crash, aged 33. He is recognised as the first ever black

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