Albion legend Tony Brown remembers Cyrille Regis

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00:00Bomber, big Cyril, a man you were very close to as teammates and in your post-playing careers.

00:09What an athlete, you know, when he came to the club as an unknown.

00:12Awesome. I think that's the word that you'd have to use about Cyril.

00:17So when he first came, that raw pace and power he had, you know, he took everybody by storm.

00:23And when he was given his chance in the first team, he just grabbed it, you know, with both hands.

00:30And the supporters at this club, they just took to him straight away and became a firm favourite.

00:38He was, as I say, he was an awesome player.

00:41Some of your memories were defenders hanging off him trying to get him.

00:44Oh, yeah, in the early days.

00:46Because I think he made his debut because I was injured the one day and I was watching from the stand.

00:51And I was just amazed, you know, because I'd seen him in training, not a lot.

00:56He hadn't really trained with the first team a lot when he was given his chance.

01:01But to see him in an actual game, he was defenders, he was turning defenders

01:07and they were trying to hang on to him to pull him back and that.

01:10And he couldn't, he just had so much power and pace and great character, lovely man, Lewis.

01:17Lovely man, great character and sadly missed.

01:21Yeah.