Beautifully written, hard hitting book which is very topical right now. It highlights the pressures of prejudice in sport and politics in the world we are living in and the strive and determination it takes everyday. This is a moving insightful story of generations and the bond of sport that binds them together.

This is an important and timely book which examines attitudes and the realities about race relations in sport.

It is appropriate to place sport under the microscope given that sport is very often a sounding board for what happens in broader society.

One would have thought and hoped that the days of hurling abuse and bananas at black sporting icons were long gone but events both here and abroad, for example recently in Italian football show that the problem remains and is a deep seated one.

Mr Bardowell provides a deeply felt and illuminating viewpoint and expose of the prejudice that still remains lurking on and just below the surface and the double standards that prevail.

This book is essential reading for everyone committed to fairness and equality in life and in sport.