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Andrew Watson: The 'most influential' black footballer for decades lost to history

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  By Andrew Aloia BBC Sport Last updated on 11 October 2021 11 October 2021 . From the section Football Watson was a trailblazer who helped transform how football was played There are two murals of black footballers facing one another across an alleyway in Glasgow. One helped shape football as we know it, the other is Pele. Andrew Watson captained Scotland to a 6-1 win over England on his debut in 1881. He was a pioneer, the world's first black international, but for more than a century the significance of his achievements went unrecognised. Research conducted over the past three decades has left us with some biographical details: a man descended of slaves and of those who enslaved them, born in Guyana, raised to become an English gentleman and famed as one of Scottish football's first icons. And yet today, 100 years on from his death aged 64, Watson remains something of an enigma, the picture built around him a fractured one. His grainy, faded, sepia image evokes many differen...
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Love Poem 2

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TO MY LOVER TRUST JUST DOESN’T COME WITHOUT EVENTS. TALKING IS EASY BUT TRUST IS HARD. HONESTY IS THE WAY FORWARD. BE HONEST TO YOURSELF BE HONEST TO YOUR PARTNER. FOR LOVE IS A BLESSING FROM GOD NOT ALL PEOPLE FINDS LOVE. IF ONE PESERVIRE IN HONEST IT GIVES BIRTH TO TREUST AND LIGHT OF LOVE GROWS. AS IT GROWS, IT BRINGS LIGHT INTO THE DARKNESS JUST LIKE THE SUN, THAT SHINES ON EARTH. TO LIGHT LIGHT TO GOD’S CREATION. SUNSHINE IS YOUR NAME. SO SHINE ABOVE ALL OADS AND BE YOURSELF, AS GOD HAS GIVEN YOU LIFE. AS   I SPEAK THESE WORDS, I HOPE THEY ARE OF GOOD WISDOM. FOR GOD HAS GIVEN ME THIS TIME, TO SIT AND WRITE THE POEM FOR YOU MY LOVER I GIVE THANKS AND PRAISE. IN HIM I TRUST.
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Love Poem

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To be with you To make you my close friend To make belong to each other To always end our days in each other’s hands   It’s all because of the comfort, the trust,   the love the relaxation To mention just a few It doesn’t mean , l want to have someone to make love to, It doesn’t mean l just want someone to give me babies It doesn’t mean l just want someone to call my wife It doesn’t mean l just want some to be seen by people   moving around with. To be with you means l will redeemed No matter how hard the day might be   When l am with you it has change its shape You are the redeemer of my soul, that brings me close to Christ For to receive Christ you need to be happy you have to create a worm environment I may be affected by work , people at work can do all sorts of harm That can make me a sad person, unhappy and angry at times All will change when l come close to you Engulfed   in the comfort of your love   Enhancing a feeling of belonging Giving birth to ...
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Andrew Watson: The 'most influential' black footballer for decades lost to history

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  By Andrew Aloia BBC Sport Last updated on 11 October 2021 11 October 2021 . From the section Football Watson was a trailblazer who helped transform how football was played There are two murals of black footballers facing one another across an alleyway in Glasgow. One helped shape football as we know it, the other is Pele. Andrew Watson captained Scotland to a 6-1 win over England on his debut in 1881. He was a pioneer, the world's first black international, but for more than a century the significance of his achievements went unrecognised. Research conducted over the past three decades has left us with some biographical details: a man descended of slaves and of those who enslaved them, born in Guyana, raised to become an English gentleman and famed as one of Scottish football's first icons. And yet today, 100 years on from his death aged 64, Watson remains something of an enigma, the picture built around him a fractured one. His grainy, faded, sepia image evokes many differen...
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If everyone on Earth sat in the ocean at once, how much would sea level rise?

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  There are a lot of people, but the oceans are very big.   Rosley Majid/EyeEm via Getty Images If everyone on Earth sat in the ocean at once, how much would sea level rise? March 29, 2021 2.07pm SAST Author Tony E. Wong Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology Disclosure statement Tony E. Wong does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Partners Rochester Institute of Technology  provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. The Conversation is funded by the National Research Foundation, eight universities, including the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Rhodes University, Stellenbosch University and the Universities of Cape Town, Johannesburg, Kwa-Zulu Natal, Pretoria, and South Africa. It is hosted by the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Wester...
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