article_snippet: Chelsea's first black footballer Paul Canoville has been the subject of documentary Chelsea: Black & Blue .
article_snippet: Paul Canoville was targeted by racists after signing for Chelsea in 1981 before making Paul Canoville debut a year later .
article_snippet: Because it told the incredible story of Paul Canoville, the talented young winger who in 1982 became Chelsea's first black player.
article_snippet: Because it was the beginning of a period in Chelsea's Canoville (right) life that saw Chelsea's Canoville (right) disappear from the game prematurely through injury, go broke, turn to drugs, get clean, twice be diagnosed and beat cancer, and lose a son at just nine days old who 'died in my arms'.
article_snippet: because Chelsea's Canoville (right) needed to apologise to Canoville for having been one of those racist abusers.
highlights_snippet: Talented winger Paul Canoville became Chelsea's first black player in 1982 .
  
highlights_snippet: Canoville was racially abused by Talented winger Canoville own supporters during the Eighties .
  
highlights_snippet: During The new Sky Sports documentary, we are told a fan approaches Talented winger Canoville because Talented winger Canoville needed to apologise for having been one of those racist abusers .
  