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No Place to Hide - How I Put The Black In The Union Jack (Paperback)
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No Place to Hide - How I Put The Black In The Union Jack (Paperback)
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' As my future crumbled before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. My
entire life' s struggle was ending here, in plain view of my
enemies. How was it possible? How had I let things come to this?'
This is not the story of a celebrity sportsman. It' s not the story
of a life covered in glory with its attendant cavalcade of famous
friends, easy wins and glamorous encounters. Errol Christie may
have been one of the most promising British boxers of his
generation - a Fight Night poster boy, captain of the England
boxing team, English and European champion, and a cocky, Ali-esque
dancer with a reputation for devastating early knockouts - but this
is not that story. This is a story about fighting. Coventry in the
dying days of the Seventies was a tough place to grow up -
especially if you were poor and black. At the same time as the
young Errol Christie was raising the flag in the ring, his fists
were seeing off skinhead tormentors and NF bootboys on the streets.
Britain was sickening from a vicious racial divide, and even when
the big time turned up Errol soon discovered that a black boxer who
refused to play by the rules - white rules - would never be
tolerated. In 1985, after a string of professional knockouts, Errol
faced Mark Kaylor in a brutal bout that tore open the country' s
simmering racial enmities. In the eighth round he went down - and
stayed down, the roar of the hard right in his ears. But the years
that followed would see Errol square up against a far tougher
adversary - as he found himself out in the cold, struggling to get
by, and alone with only his own shattered confidence and no place
to hide.
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