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The farmer’s son who fought like a lion
JOHN WIGHT takes us on a journey back to a decade defined by union power, pop stars, and gritty football icons - no boxer embodied the heart and soul of 1970s Britain quite like Dave Boy Green
Dave "Boy' Green victorious at tonight's Lightweight fight for the European championship with Jean-Baptiste Piedvache (France) who retired in the ninth of their 15 round fight at London's Royal Albert Hall, December 7, 1976
Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THE history of British sport is strewn with iconic figures who exemplify periods when everything seemed to make sense. One decade in particular, the 1970s, falls into the category of a “case in point.”
George Best, Stan Bowles, Billy Bremner, Kevin Keegan, Sammy Nelson — the list goes on and on — all plied their footballing craft in the 1970s. In athletics Mary Peters, David Hemery and David Wilkie were in their primes. While when it comes to rugby union, among the greats were Barry John, JPR Williams, Gareth Edwards and Andy Irvine, among so many others.
No British boxer, turning to the primary object of this column, reminds us of that decade and era more than Dave Boy Green. The name alone is redolent of a time when the British working class was the strongest and most organised it had been since the second world war. The result was an economy which served the interests of society rather than the other way round, as is the case now.
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