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Getting The Third Degree

Getting The Third Degree by Dougie Blaxland is the deeply moving story of Laurie Cunningham who came to prominence with West Bromwich Albion in the late 1970s.

Cunnigham - one of the black footballing trio famously dubbed The Three Degrees - with swaggering style and dazzling skills invited favourable comparisons with the legendary Pele. The first black footballer to sign for the mighty Real Madrid and only the second to win a full cap for England, Cunningham inspired a whole generation of young black players to follow in his pioneering footsteps.