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The match that pitted white players against black players

In 1979 West Bromwich Albion were looking for an idea for a benefit match for one of their longest serving players, Len Cantello. Somebody, we don't know who, came up with the idea of a match pitting black players against white players. Yes, really: blacks v whites, writes Adrian Chiles.

It sounds somewhere between somewhat odd and downright appalling now, doesn't it? At the time, as I recall, it felt a rather progressive thing to do. After all we - I'm a lifelong West Brom fan - led the way in fielding black players. It seemed rather logical to push the envelope a little further and get a whole team together.
Behind closed doors, in the decidedly peculiar world of the training ground, this kind of thing had been going on for a while. "In five-a-sides we used to have the Jocks and the blacks versus the English," remembers Cyrille Regis, one of the stars of the black team. "I think the idea may have sprung naturally from that."Cyrille Regis (left) and Len Cantello (right) at the kick-off of the 1979 testimonial match
More of this at : http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37924448
My Questions is this, can this type of match occurred today without any dust being raised? Lord knows, when this can even be mention again? 
Where is the love by BLACK EYE PEAS ringing in my HEAD right now!
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