Ellery Hanley was one of Britain's Greatest Rugby Players. On November 26th 1978 Ellery Hanley made his debut in which 'Northern' won 30-18. Over the following 6 years with Bradford, Hanley made 126 appearances scoring phenomenal 89 tries. Undoubtedly his greatest season for the club came in 1984/85 when he scored 55 tries in only 37 appearances, a ...

Jeremy Guscott was one of Britains finest Rugby players in the 1990's. He Made his international debut in 1989 against Romania. A few weeks later he went with the Loins to Australia. He appeared in the last test for scored a famous match winning try. Jerry went on to win 3 Grand Slams with England ...

Denise Lewis is a Black British Athlete, a superb all-round talent. Denise progressed to the highest world-class at the heptathlon, her highest accolade was the Olympic gold medal she won in Sydney. She achieved a best of 5277 points in her first year at the event in 1989. She was Britain's woman athlete of the year ...

Lennox Lewis was Britains last Heavyweight Champion boxer. Despite a reputedly high, undisclosed personal wealth, Lennox Lewis remains one of the most likeable sporting personalities of this century. Lennox Claudius Lewis was born in Stratford, London on 2 September 1965. His names could not be more aptly chosen as Lennox is Gaelic and means 'chieftain' ...

James Peters was the first Black man to play Rugby Football for England. Born in Salford slums of Manchester He moved to London where he began to play Rugby. Later he moved to Bristol and then Plymouth where he worked as a Docker and quickly got into the local team. Before long ...

Colin Jackson is One of Britain's greatest ever athletes who retired after a remarkable seventeen years at the top. Although as a boy, Colin Jackson had an all-round talent for sport, playing football and cricket for the county and rugby and basketball for his school. Athletics came most naturally to him, his favoured event being the ...

? Linford Christie's title collection includes an Olympic, a World Championship, three European, three Commonwealth, ten European Cup and four World Cup medals. Linford was the first man to retain the World Cup 100m title and in 1997 won a record 7th European Cup title. From 1995 to 1997 he was the inspirational captain of the men's ...

Stan Collymore is remembered as being one of Footballs bad boys. He has now retired from professional football. He was an extremely successful Striker. Born January 22, 1971 in Stone in Staffordshire. He joined Walsall in 1989 but the club later canceled his Y.T.S contract. In July 1989 Wolves agreed to complete his trainee term but despite ...

DALEY THOMPSON British decathlete who became only the second competitor in history to win the decathlon at two Olympic Games, capturing gold medals in 1980 and 1984. The son of a Nigerian father and a Scottish mother, Thompson made his debut in the decathlon at the age of 16, winning a competition ...

Ian Wright was one of the best known footballers in the British game, he started off as a low paid plasterer and ended up being one of the most recognised footballers of our time. He was recognised as an extremely talented young striker which his managers soon noticed. He was getting paid ...

John Barnes was an exciting Black footballer playing for Liverpool in the 1980's and 90's. Three years after his spectacular solo goal for England against Brazil at Rio's Maracana Stadium the exciting Jamaican-born winger was signed from Watford for 900,000 pounds by Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish in 1987 as part of his team reshaping following the ...

Cyrille Regis, Is a famous black British footballer, he was one of the earliest black players in the modern leagues. The striker, whose trademark was scoring highly spectacular goals, began his playing career at West Brom with star players like Laurie Cunningham, Brendon Batson, Derek Statham, Len Cantello and Tony 'Bomber' Brown. Regis broke into the ...