10 Brilliant Photos Of British Footballers Who Played Abroad

Laurie Cunningham - Cunningham was the first British player to be signed by Real Madrid. He spent four years in Madrid, and never quite established himself as a star, before moving on to Sporting Gijon. Stints at Marseille, Rayo Vallecano (twice) and Charleroi followed, before he tragically lost his life in a car crash (in Madrid, ironically) in 1989.