Former West Brom defender Brendon Batson speaks exclusively to Sky Sports following the release of his book The Third Degree.
Brendon Batson had never been in a dressing room like the one he found himself in before Len Cantello's West Brom testimonial in 1979. He was surrounded only by Black players. Remarkably, the game pitted an all-Black team against an all-white team. 'It couldn't happen today,' Batson tells Sky Sports following the release of his autobiography The Third Degree. 'There's no need for it to happen now,' he adds.
Commentator Gerald Sinstadt was one of the first to do so when he referenced the booing West Brom's Black players were subjected to at Old Trafford in December 1978. This act, though fleeting, would become defining in the legacy of one of sport's most recognisable voices. Catch the moment from 0:20 in the video below. The game was a thriller that West Brom won 5-3, but Batson's overriding memory was this acknowledgement. 'It was a big thing,' he says.
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