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Peter wrote:

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Okay - I see what you're getting at now.

- Eric

I wasn't condemning Bough for using the word. It was a low point to me because it was in common usage at the time.

Re the terrorism thing. That was rather how it played at the time. This was the year of urban riots in the US, and the Che beret was almost de regeur for black activists. But this was also the time of In The Heat Of The Night and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, where you were getting the white conservative view of things being subverted.

Oh, and for the muppet who mentioned politics being kept out of sport, this was also the time when England's selectors decided D'olly wasn't good enough to be selected for the South African tour after scoring 140-odd runs and taking four wickets in a test match. Funny how politics being kept out is only mentioned when someone threatens the status quo.

I was eight, and it was an image that burned into my brain. Rather scary at the time, almost as if they were terrorists. But that was pretty much the media's portrayal.

Forty years on, it seems incredible that they had to make such a protest at all. But they definitely did, and it provoked change.