{"id":30080,"date":"2026-05-27T07:42:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/roly-gregoire-sunderland-footballer-setting-record-straight-after-46-years\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:42:55","slug":"roly-gregoire-sunderland-footballer-setting-record-straight-after-46-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/roly-gregoire-sunderland-footballer-setting-record-straight-after-46-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Roly Gregoire: Sunderland footballer setting record straight after 46 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Roly Gregoire quit football in 1980 after suffering a knee injury, he had faced so much racism that he could not bear to watch football for many years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forty-six years later, the former striker reveals why and shares his memories of being Sunderland&#8217;s first black player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Warning: Contains details of racially offensive language and behaviour.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cz02gdm7zleo\" class=\"ssrcss-jbu701-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">The footballer setting record straight after 46 years<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/videos\/ce9pplx5l99o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Roly Gregoire quit football in 1980 after suffering a knee injury, he had faced so much racism that he could not bear to watch football for many years. Forty-six years later, the former striker reveals why and shares his memories of being Sunderland&#8217;s first black player. Warning: Contains details of racially offensive language and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30082,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30080\/revisions\/30082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}