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Richard Cadette

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Thanks to Dave Goody for the reminder in the programme on Saturday. Today marks the 25th anniversary of Richard Cadette scoring 4 in a 5-1 romp over his previous club Leyton Orient.
 
'Young, Gifted & Black'

Thanks to Dave Goody for the reminder in the programme on Saturday. Today marks the 25th anniversary of Richard Cadette scoring 4 in a 5-1 romp over his previous club Leyton Orient.

:thumbsup:

Richard is one of my favourite Blues players. Just thought I'd dig this previous post (called 'Young, Gifted & Black') out from the archives by way of a tribute on this more appropriate thread:-

Though this song was from the early seventies, it is now indelibly linked for me with Richard Cadette and his glorious time with us in the mid-eighties. I cannot recall Southend having a black player before Richard signed for us and unfortunately racism was still in the air at football matches back in those days. I first saw him play for us in August '85 in a midweek League Cup game when he came on as sub. The match was a poor one but Richard immediately livened things up and we managed to get a late equaliser with a rare Paul Clark goal, which had resulted from 'Tricky Dicky's general unsettling of the opposition (Gills possibly?) defence by his confidence to go at them. He was one of those players who would immediately enliven a crowd just by being on the ball and I remember a wonderful piece of trickery in a thrilling FA Cup game v Northampton (on a Friday night in December '86) where he turned both marking defenders with his back to them initially, then went through them like a bar of soap through swing-doors to emerge en route to goal from where he put us 3-2 up, IIRC. Finally, his goal at Stockport in our promotion game in May '87 nearly got me my head kicked in as I couldn't contain my glee when I knew it would get us up - he made it 2-0 with about 25 minutes to go converting a cross with his customary aplomb. Young, gifted and black - I will always remember the days of 'King Richard' holding court with huge affection.

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