{"id":1263,"date":"2026-06-03T17:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:48:42","slug":"roly-gregoire-sunderland-footballer-setting-record-straight-after-46-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1263","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\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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}