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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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Invictus: Zimbabwe’s moment of oil discovery awaits

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Invictus: Zimbabwe’s moment of oil discovery awaits OPINION  /  26 NOVEMBER 2018, 09:00AM  /  BHEKI GILA Ambassador Bheki Gila. Photo: Supplied Zimbabwe’s oil find is big news for a number of reasons not least of which is the timing of its announcement. Photo: AP Ambassador Bheki Gila. Photo: Supplied Zimbabwe’s oil find is big news for a number of reasons not least of which is the timing of its announcement. Photo: AP 1 2 Zimbabwe’s oil find, is big news. It is big news for a number of reasons not least of which is the timing of its announcement. Notwithstanding the dispute of the size of the find and the stage of the discovery, the possibility portends the greatest economic development in the early post-Mugabe era. The currency woes that have plagued the people of that country and its government a decade ago, have reared their menacing head once more. And not for the first time. They come as seasons and arrive with the wrath of hurricanes.
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Zimbabwe: ED Must Beware of Flattering Chiwenga, Says Mafume

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By Anna Chibamu MDC spokesperson Jacob Mafume says Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's weekend vows opposition leader Nelson Chamisa would never rule Zimbabwe at the expense of President Emmerson Mnangagwa were signs of the VP's own ambitions to dislodge his boss from the lofty job. Addressing Zanu PF followers during President Mnangagwa's "thank you" rally in Zvimba on Saturday, Chiwenga savaged Chamisa, describing the Apostolic Faith Mission pastor as a false prophet and a "little bishop". "In all the coming elections, no one is going to remove Shumba Murambwi (President Mnangagwa)," he said. "We are here until he feels it is the time to go and when we have fully restored our country to its former glory and when everything is in order. No one must dream of being the President." Chiwenga added, "Politics of child's play will not help us in any way. Shumba Murambwi is there to stay because he is an anointed
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Argentina promotes social integration by hosting Dwarf Copa America

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2018 Dwarf Copa America Brazil's Daniel Guimaraes celebrates after scoring against Morocco during a Dwarf Copa America football match at Ferro Carril Oeste Club in Buenos Aires. 21  of 25
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Barcelona become the first sports team in history to pay players more than £10million a year on average

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Barcelona have become the first team to pay players more than £10m on average Real Madrid, Juventus and Manchester United are in the top 12 paying teams The NBA remains the best paid league, followed by the Indian Premier League The Premier League is still the best paid football league in the world  By  NICK HARRIS FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY PUBLISHED:  22:30 GMT, 24 November 2018  |  UPDATED:  01:51 GMT, 25 November 2018           e-mail   5 shares 23 View comments Barcelona have become the first sports team in history with average basic first-team pay of more than £10million a year. The Spanish giants, with  Lionel Messi  as their talisman and best paid player, are spending £10,454,259 per man in the 2018-19 season, excluding extras such as signing-on fees and bonuses, according to a report to be published on Monday. The 2018 edition of the Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) puts Barca at No 1 in the world in average basic pay in a survey that incl
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Inside Xanadu 2.0: Take a sneak peek into Bill and Melinda Gates’s Washington mansion

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  LIFESTYLE HOME GARDEN HOME Bill Gates and Melinda’s 27-year-old marriage has come to an end. Picture: Anthony Bolante/Reuters Inside Xanadu 2.0: Take a sneak peek into Bill and Melinda Gates’s Washington mansion By Staff Reporter   May 11, 2021 Questions have been asked as to who is likely to get Bill and Melinda Gates’ 6 100² lakeside mansion in Washington State once their divorce is settled. But it would seem Melinda doesn’t really want it. In a profile in Fortune magazine published in 2008, she said when she arrived in Gates’ life the house caused her to have “a mini sort of personal crisis”. It was partly built when she married Gates in 1994. She described it as “a bachelor’s dream and a bride’s nightmare… with enough software and hi-tech displays to make a newlywed feel as though she were living inside a video game”. So with the help of interior designer Thierry Despont – who has worked on the Palm Court of New York’s Plaza Hotel, and the Ritz in Paris – she helped create a home
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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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Are there any planets outside of our solar system?

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  Academic rigour, journalistic flair COVID-19 Arts  +  Culture Business  +  Economy Education Environment  +  Energy Health  +  Medicine Politics Science  +  Technology In French Artist illustration of an exoplanet.  dottedhippo/iStock via Getty Images Are there any planets outside of our solar system? July 19, 2021 2.06pm SAST Author Jean-Luc Margot Professor of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles Disclosure statement Jean-Luc Margot receives funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and philanthropists. Partners University of California  provides funding as a founding partner 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
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