[LEGEND] Vivian Alexander "Viv" Anderson MBE

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Vivian Alexander "Viv" Anderson MBE (born 29 July 1956 in Clifton, Nottingham) is an English football player and coach, who played for clubs including Nottingham Forest, Arsenal, Manchester United and Sheffield Wednesday in the 1970s and 1980s. He is also notable for being the first black football player to represent England in a full international match.





Playing career

Nottingham Forest

Anderson had broken into the Nottingham Forest team during 1974 and became a regular after the arrival of Brian Clough as manager of the East Midlands club, then in the Second Division, in January 1975. He was part of the side that won promotion to the First Division in 1977, winning the title, along with the League Cup, a year later.

Anderson was one of the first black players to represent top English clubs at the time, and regularly suffered racial abuse from fans of rival teams. He was regularly pelted with bananas and targeted with racist chants.

When Anderson received the call-up for England in 1978, coach Ron Greenwood was insistent that no political issue was at stake, despite the ever rising number of young black stars in the game, born and raised in England. There was no doubt that Anderson was playing outstandingly in a form team that season and got his call-up entirely on merit. A gangly, awkward figure, he was a much-admired tackler and was also quick going forward and occasionally scored vital goals. Vindication for his selection on merit was further supplied when Anderson was part of the Forest team that retained the League Cup and then clinched the European Cup in 1979 with victory over Malmö. He also helped Forest retain the League Cup that year.

All that said, Anderson found himself frequently up against equally competent right-backs when it came to getting regular international recognition. Liverpool's much-decorated Phil Neal was the first-choice right-back as the late 1970s became the 1980s, while Leeds United captain Trevor Cherry was also regularly called up. Anderson had to be patient prior to winning his second cap in a friendly against Sweden in June 1979. His third appearance was his first competitive international as England defeated Bulgaria 2–0 at Wembley in a qualifier for the 1980 European Championships.

Anderson continued to impress for Forest during this period, and picked up his second European Cup winners' medal when they retained the trophy with victory over Hamburg in Madrid. Forest did reach a third successive League Cup final that year, but lost to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

England had duly got through to the European Championship finals in Italy and Anderson was named in Greenwood's squad, playing in the final group game against Spain as a replacement for Neal. England won 2–1 but did not progress further. Anderson later made his World Cup debut in a qualifier for the 1982 competition in a 4–0 win over Norway. Essentially the battle was now between Neal and Anderson for the No. 2 shirt, but after qualification for the World Cup, neither were suddenly appropriate for the role.

Injury to Kevin Keegan had meant Greenwood needed to call upon an experienced club captain to lead the team out in Spain, so Ipswich Town's skipper Mick Mills, normally a left-back, was put in the right-back slot (with regular incumbent Kenny Sansom remaining on the left) and both Neal and Anderson missed out. Neal played against Kuwait in the final group game to rest Mills when qualification had already been assured, but Mills returned for the second phase, from which England were eliminated. Anderson, meanwhile, never kicked a ball.

With Forest beginning to fall from grace (the ageing side was breaking up and the 1980 European Cup win was to prove to be their last trophy for nine years), Anderson's England career seemed to be stalling. After the World Cup and Greenwood's departure, he did not feature at all under new coach Bobby Robson until 1984, with Neal still mainly getting the nod. England failed to qualify for the 1984 European Championships during this period.

Arsenal

Anderson finally won an 11th cap, in April 1984, almost two years after his tenth. In the same year, he aimed to revive his career with a move to Arsenal for £250,000.[3] This duly helped Anderson revitalise his international standing and he won six consecutive caps from 1984 and into 1985, including four qualifiers for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico; in the first of which he scored his first of his two international goals in an 8–0 mauling of Turkey. Then Robson gave a debut to the young Everton right-back Gary Stevens who was so impressive that Anderson found himself usurped again. Robson split his selection policy, but Stevens got slightly more appearances than Anderson as England completed their qualification for Mexico and though both were in the squad for the finals, it was clear that Anderson was again going as reserve.

Stevens played every minute of England's tournament as a Diego Maradona-inspired Argentina disposed of them in the quarter finals. Again, Anderson had travelled to a World Cup without kicking a ball. Anderson became the second outfield England player, after George Eastham in 1962 and 1966, to have attended two World Cup tournaments and not got on the pitch at either. Only Martin Keown (in 1998 and 2002) and three goalkeepers (Chris Woods, Nigel Martyn and David James) have since equalled this record.

Anderson won three caps at the end of 1986 as England began their quest to qualify for the 1988 European Championships in Germany. In one of the qualifiers against Yugoslavia, Anderson scored his second and final international goal.

In 1987, he enjoyed some club success for the first time in seven years when Arsenal defeated Liverpool 2–1 in the League Cup final.

Manchester United

Later the same year, in a tribunal agreed £250,000 deal,[3] he became Alex Ferguson's first signing since taking over as manager of Manchester United. Arsenal fans bemoaned the deal as manager George Graham had no obvious replacement, spending most of the next season with the inexperienced (and midfield specialist) Michael Thomas in the No. 2 shirt, followed by the impossibly left-footed Nigel Winterburn. Anderson was finally replaced at Highbury when Lee Dixon arrived.

Meanwhile, Stevens had forced his way back in as England qualified for the European Championships and Anderson won his 30th and (what proved to be) final cap in a Rous Cup game against Colombia though was again in reserve when the squad went to Germany for the finals. They lost all three group games and Stevens came in for criticism, but maintained his place. For the third time, Anderson had travelled to a major international competition without getting a minute on the pitch. Robson began to look to the younger end of the playing spectrum for competition for Stevens, and Anderson's important international career ended.

Meanwhile, at Old Trafford Anderson was a significant part of Alex Ferguson's rebuilding plans as he attempted to create a title winning side to end the wait that had started at the club in 1967. Following a dismal start to the 1986–87 season that had cost Ron Atkinson his job on 5 November, Ferguson had steered United from 21st to 11th of 22 First Division clubs in the final six months of the campaign. Anderson played his part in United's continued improvement in 1987–88, as they finished second in the league but never really looked like overhauling Liverpool, who finished champions by a nine-point margin with just two defeats all season as well as a 29-match unbeaten start to the 40-game campaign. Anderson remained first-choice right-back in 1988–89, but United had a slow start to the season and despite an upturn in their form in the new year that saw them climb to third place by mid-February, a dismal final quarter of the season dragged them down to 11th place. Despite finishing 13th in the league in 1989–90, United won the FA Cup – but Anderson was not in the squad for the final. He had managed 21 games in all competitions that season but Alex Ferguson had chosen Paul Ince – normally a central midfielder – as his right-back for the first match (a 3–3 draw with Crystal Palace) and also the replay five days later, which ended in a 1–0 win.

Anderson's hopes of winning his place back in the 1990–91 season were crushed when Ferguson paid Oldham Athletic £625,000 for Denis Irwin, who quickly established himself as the first choice right-back, while Ince switched back to central midfield. He played just three more games for the club, and on his final appearance for them in the Football League Cup second round second leg against Halifax Town on 10 October 1990 he scored their first goal in a 2–1 win that gave a 5–2 aggregate victory.

Sheffield Wednesday

Anderson joined Sheffield Wednesday on a free transfer in January 1991, helping them to promotion from the Second Division, although he missed the League Cup final triumph over Manchester United as he had played for his old club earlier in the competition. Despite originally being thought of as a short-term signing, Anderson established himself in the Wednesday first team and captained the side on many occasions.[3] He played an active part in the Owls team that finished third in the 1991–92 First Division and seventh in the first season of the Premier League. He also helped Wednesday reach the FA Cup and League Cup final in 1993, but they were on the losing side to Arsenal in both finals.

Barnsley

Anderson's manner on the pitch made him an obvious choice for management and in June 1993 he left Hillsborough to be appointed player-manager of Barnsley following the departure of Mel Machin.[3] However, his first season at Oakwell was a disappointment as Barnsley narrowly avoided relegation to Division Two.

Middlesbrough

At the end of 1993–94, Anderson quit Barnsley after just a year to become assistant manager of Middlesbrough under former Old Trafford team mate Bryan Robson.

Despite retiring from playing football in 1994, Anderson was still officially registered as a player and following an injury crisis at Middlesbrough he played two games for the club in 1994–95 when they were promoted to Premier League as Division One champions. After gaining promotion he finally hung up his playing boots.

Anderson helped Robson assemble a side that reached both domestic cup finals (both of which they lost) in 1996–97, although they were relegated due to a three point deduction for postponing a December fixture at late notice as a result of so many players being unable to play due to illness or injury. However, Boro won promotion at the first attempt and were League Cup runners-up once again. Robson and Anderson finally left Middlesbrough in June 2001 when Terry Venables was brought in with the club facing relegation. Despite never achieving anything higher than ninth place in the final table the duo had managed to establish Boro in the Premier League.

After football

Anderson has not been employed in football since leaving the assistant manager's job at Middlesbrough.

In 1997, Anderson was given the right-back slot by Forest fans voting for the club's all time greatest XI, gaining 96% of the vote.

He was awarded an MBE in January 2000.
Anderson was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2004 in recognition of his impact on the English league. He remains a keen supporter of the National Football Museum and regularly attends special events at the museum.

As of 2005, Anderson runs a sports travel agency and also works as a goodwill ambassador for the Football Association.[3] Anderson appears as an occasional guest pundit on MUTV – Manchester United's official TV station.

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Viv Anderson Launches Football Sessions for Over 40s

Nottingham footballing legend and City of Football ambassador Viv Anderson is helping to launch a series of brand new football sessions for men over 40 who want to get back into the game.

The ‘Rusty Returners’ sessions, in partnership with Nottingham City Council’s FREEsport programme, will be launched on Wednesday April 27 by the former Nottingham Forest and England defender, who has previously supported the work of Nottingham City of Football across the city.

Katie Gibson, Programme and Partner Coordinator at Nottingham City of Football said: “We are delighted to have Viv Anderson on board again for the Rusty Returners launch. He’s been a keen supporter of us since day one and Viv is the perfect ambassador for getting older men back into football.



“Rusty Returners isn’t just about getting men over 40 back into football though, it’s also about giving those who want to try football out a chance to do that.

“You’re never too old to take up football and this has been shown by Veteran’s Leagues all across Nottinghamshire taking on new older players every week.

“We want to keep this momentum going and get everyone playing the game whatever their age or ability.”

As well as live music and free refreshments there will be a small session ran by a Nottingham City of Football coach and 5-a-side matches to follow.

Viv Anderson said: “As most people are aware, Nottingham has a very special place in my heart and it’s absolutely fantastic what the City of Football are doing to keep guys like myself playing the game and enjoying it.

“I’m really looking forward to the launch night and speaking to some of the guys who want to get involved in the game for the first time.

“They say life begins at 40 and to see so much interest in an event like this just shows that is true.

“I’m 59 now but I still love to have a kick around with a few friends whenever I get the chance. It’s great for fitness but it’s also really good fun and a social occasion too.”

The event will take place on Wednesday April 27 at Southglade Leisure Centre from 7pm – 9pm. All men age 40+ are welcome and entry is free.

Key challenges to be met include raising the levels of participation in football in Nottingham promoting the cultural, social, health and educational benefits of football, supporting diversity among those playing football, and creating new initiatives, which can be replicated across other regions in the country.

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Viv Anderson: ‘When I saw the banana skin it hit me like a punch’

The situation for black players has improved so much since the 1980s but there is still a battle to be won.

I watched the Arsenal-Tottenham game and the banana skin wasn’t something anyone really noticed at the time. Then there were replays that showed some of the objects that were being thrown at Pierre‑Emerick Aubameyang as he celebrated his first goal, and when I saw the banana it hit me like a punch. The police have not charged anyone with any racially aggravated offence but it nonetheless reminded me of the sort of thing I thought we had eradicated from the game.

You go back to the famous John Barnes incident in a Merseyside derby, where he was photographed backheeling a banana off the pitch. That was the 1980s, a different time. The situation for black people in football has improved so much since then but we’ve still got a lot to do and a long way to go.

I once had a glass bottle thrown at me by West Ham fans at Upton Park. It missed, which is just as well because if that had connected it could have done some serious damage.

I immediately went to the referee and told him it had happened but nothing was ever done about it. In those days, when people standing behind the goals could move freely from one part of the stand to another, and with no CCTV cameras to identify anyone, there wasn’t much that could be done.

Technology has improved since then and thankfully so have our standards. But we still have to be vigilant. People in stadiums who see or hear offensive abuse have to stand up and report it, to be brave enough to say this is unacceptable.

Maybe Aubameyang will learn from the incident as well. If you celebrate a goal in front of the other team’s fans you can expect to get a certain amount of vitriol. It’s a game of emotions, and when you score – especially against your club’s local rivals – you’re going to have all these emotions flooding through you, and so are the players and supporters of the team that has just conceded. But there have to be boundaries, lines that we just do not cross, and this is one of them. As a football club, and as a society, this is something we cannot condone.

I’ve played for Arsenal and I’ve played in north London derbies. It’s always very intense, one of the biggest derbies going. In my day you’d get all sorts of abuse from the opposition fans but, as Ian Wright said on Match of the Day on Sunday night, I don’t think I ever got any racial abuse in the north London derby. At least nothing that I heard. But football fans reflect our society and there is still a proportion of the population which is racist, or which is inconsiderate enough to think throwing a banana at a black man is amusing or acceptable.

As a black man who played through the 1970s and 1980s, a time when racial abuse was relatively commonplace, when I see something like this it hits me like a slap in the face. You think the game has gone past this stage but there is still a battle to be won.

The focus for the future has to be on education. When I was playing, if something like this would have happened nobody would have done anything about it. But what was considered acceptable then is not accepted now. What is reassuring is that people saw this, not just black people, and thought: “This is not OK.” That, and the speed and firmness with which the police and the clubs involved have acted, is heartening.

Viv Anderson played for Arsenal from 1984-87 and in 1978 became the first black player to be capped by England. He was talking to Simon Burnton

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EXCLUSIVE: Stuck in a blizzard with Viv Anderson on racism, knife crime and Forest’s ‘new Clough and Taylor’



It’s a cold, dark January morning and Forest legend Viv Anderson, with the heaters on full blast in his car, is travelling from London up to Leeds – when he gets stuck in a snow storm on the M1. And it’s at the time Notts TV has an interview over the phone with him to step in the mind of a local icon. Alex Mason speaks to the first black footballer to play for England about being pelted by bananas, tackling the knife crime epidemic and how Nottingham Forest can finally find their long-lost mojo.

We can reschedule to a more convenient time if you would like, Viv?”

“Absolutely not. Fire away; this will help me kill time”, the 62-year-old replies swiftly. “Come and be an imaginary passenger in my car.”

Anderson, born in Clifton, Nottingham, played in Brian Clough’s legendary Forest squad who rose from obscurity to win back-to-back European Cups in 1979 and 1980 – going on to make more than 400 appearances for the club.

The former defender was awarded an MBE in 2000 and inducted into the National Football Museum Hall of Fame in 2004.

Starting with Nottingham Forest, Anderson thinks the latest manager and assistant manager ‘could be the new Clough and Taylor – who knows what could happen’.

Club legend, and European Cup winner himself, Martin O’Neill was appointed Forest’s new boss on January 15, and is targeting promotion within the 18 month contract he signed.

Since then, iconic Irish midfielder Roy Keane, who won seven Premier League titles and a Champion’s League with Manchester United has returned to the City Ground as Martin O’Neill’s assistant.

O’Neill was an integral role in Forest’s golden era, and spent most of his playing career with the club.

“I’m excited about the two people who have been appointed, but Rome wasn’t built in a day and it will take time”, said Anderson. “Everybody has to be patient.

“They have the psyche of the football club. They have been through the good and bad times. They know how passionate the supporters are and they know what it takes to win trophies.

“They’ve been at a top level.”

Keane had spells as manager of Sunderland and Ipswich Town before being part of the Republic of Ireland set-up when they reached the last 16 of the 2016 European Championships.

As a player, he appeared in FA Cup and League Cup finals for Forest after joining from Irish club Cobh Ramblers in 1990.

“If you’re going to have two people in charge that know everything about the football club and have been through the good times and bad times you could not get two better appointments”, says Anderson.

“I hope they’re given enough time to get the right things across to the players and get them promoted. If anyone knows how to get out of that league, Martin O’Neill is right at the top of that list.

“They are both winners and they both know the history of the football club. I am sure they will instill that in the players. That takes a while though and it means a lot of chopping and changing. Players need to have the same mind-set of the two men who are at the helm.”

Still at a standstill on the motorway not having moved an inch, Anderson recalls his playing days during the 1970s, where racism was common in football.

In his autobiography, First Among Unequals, he tells the story of what it was like to be subjected to racism.

In one particular game for Forest at Carlisle United, he was told to go and warm up by manager Brian Clough.

And as he did so, he said the home fans threw bananas, pears and apples at him.

“I went to sit back down and when Clough asked me why I had sat down, I told him that the crowd were throwing fruit at me.

“Clough said that I could not let them put me off.

“You cannot let people like that dictate to you or you will never make a career.

“Clough would say to me that I wouldn’t be at the club if I couldn’t play football. He installed a lot of confidence in me and helped me establish myself during my younger years.

“I took on board what he was telling me because I wanted to make a career. I never let anything like that affect me again and I just got on with playing football.

“It would take a bomb to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

“It would never ever deter me from playing with people that I have grown up with.

“It taught me an important lesson: that you just had to ignore the abuse and show them what you can do.”

Anderson became the first back footballer to play for England more than 40 years ago.

On November 29 1978, in front of a crowd of 92,000 at Wembley, he helped the team beat Czechoslovakia 1-0 on his debut.

“A lot of people interpret that I was the first black footballer to play for England in different ways.

“Some say it is because they look at the Forest team, as I was a part of that, and see how well they did.

“Others see that I was the first black man to play for England.

“In terms of recognising what else I achieved in the game, it is what it is and there is not a lot that I can do about it really.”

Anderson managed Barnsley throughout the 1993-1994 season, and was then assistant manager at Middlesbrough.

But he has not found a coaching job since.

“Paul Ince, Dwight Yorke and Rio Ferdinand have all played at a top level and they’re not involved in the coaching side of football”, says Anderson.

“I think it is a shame because their experience could be vital to young players coming through the ranks and trying to make a living.

“The perception is that they’re good footballers but not good managers. They have not been given the opportunity to manage.”

“Do you believe black players are put off by management?”

“Oh, yes!” Anderson passionately replies.

“We do not see enough black faces getting in to those roles.

“We should have more involved in football and trying to help the next generation of footballers.

“We are in a diverse society where there are different mixtures on a day-to-day basis and I think football management should be a part of that more as well.”

At the 2018 World Cup, England had the most diverse squad to represent the Three Lions at the tournament – 11 out of 23 players were from an ethnically diverse background.

Since Anderson’s debut, 85 black and mixed-race players have worn the famous shirt since Anderson first played for his country in 1978.

“It’s a completely different world now to when I started.

“There was only a handful of black faces when I was playing. Now, when you go up and down the country, most football clubs have black faces in their team, and the England team is no different.

“It is made up of all different colours and it is a very successful one that got to the semi-final.

“It has changed a hell of a lot but we still have so much to do.

“Anyone who thought we had cracked racism a couple of years ago would be completely wrong.

“We will never eradicate racism completely because you will always get the small minority who want to spoil it for everybody else.

“I do think that it is very difficult to stop but if you say forty years on, the progress from when I started to what it is now; it seems to be a completely different game. And, in the next forty years, it will be another different world.”

As the traffic starts to slowly creep along the motorway and with the view of a ‘different world’ fresh in his mind, Anderson calls on more players and staff involved in professional football to tackle the issue of knife crime.

The number of fatal stabbings across the UK is at its highest level since records began in 1946, according to the latest figures.

285 people were stabbed to death in the year of April 2017 to March 2018, with attacks ‘most pronounced’ in young men, the Office of National Statistics revealed.

Anderson is exasperated about the rising numbers.

“When we were young you wouldn’t go out with a knife in your pocket.

“The knife culture is completely alien to my generation and me.

“Therefore, what makes these youngsters go out with a knife in their pocket? Just in case there is somebody around they might want to stab?

“It is the ghettos, the areas where people are deprived. It is the gang culture, and we have to get away from it because too many kids are dying.

“These stabbings are unbelievable.

“We need to eliminate this issue by making sure professional players are involved more.”

Anderson then bids Notts TV farewell as the traffic starts to move, releasing him from the blizzard so he can continue his journey.

And what a journey that was.

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