and then back to scholesy, nothing, and then back to another black player.f understand, because the actual booing was monkey chants. you just take it with a pinch of salt because we'd grown up in that era where we had no real voice in that sense of power to do anything. it was staying on the pitch, showing our skills, and winning the game. that was a major thing. i think there is a lot of my generation that didn't go to football and had their experience that they felt they should have done. i had an incident where i was about 13 and i got chased from a football match back to the town centre. i don't know what the guy was going to do. he was calling me a "black" this and that, blah—blah—blah. he definitely was not going to hug me. when you watch football on the television and you see fans getting together and you see the euphoria and the love and passion for the game then you go and your experience is totally different from what you saw and it's only because of your skin colour, you're not going to go back. i played for the national team under—165 and went to