Black History Month Players: Ian Wright
As October is Black History Month in the UK, I have spent this month publishing threads on X (formerly Twitter) on certain players who have been part of a long and distinguished line of Black representation at West Ham United. With this being the second year I have undertaken this exercise, I thought it would be fair to publish a blog post for those who don't have X or find threads on the platform difficult to read. Feel free to read last year's threads, via this link . But t oday's post and thread on X, which will sadly be the last of this month and with West Ham playing Arsenal in the Carabao Cup tomorrow night is on a bonafide footballing legend, Ian Wright. Born on the 3rd of November 1963 in South London, Wright grew up having a troubled childhood with an abusive stepfather and found that football, whether he was watching or playing it, was often his only solace. Watching his heroes as a youngster such as Garth Crooks, Laurie Cunningham, Cyrille Regis and Pel
