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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

The Zimbabwe situation

It is so pathetic to know that people in my country of birth are still being fooled by the politician people's tactics. They only come to their areas when its time for campaigning so that they get votes from them. They lavishly spent their cash money, which they are stealing from country. All they do is buy beer for people to drink and get drunk after that they tell them lies. After that they go, during voting time you give them your votes and they go to parliament. These politicians after voted into parliament they forget about going back to those people they were buying beer for to get their votes. All they do is eat with their families  for the next term they are  voted in  for. They are no developments in areas they are voted for, no projects to help the youths in those areas to do and generate income for themselves. I have been to Zimbabwe recently and found out that the young people wakes up and go to the bars to drink as early as 8 am. They don't have anything to do e

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