Andrew Watson: The 'most influential' black footballer for decades lost to history
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...
Even cooler some people are willing to pay up to 100k for a hunting license to travel to Africa and shoot one of those.
It’s to avoid hereditary diseases if you ever went to middle school.
Necessary if a preserve has too many or too few lions relative to the other animals. Overall tied to tourism, but in non-kill manner.
Boutique Air flashbacks LMAO
I love how you claim to not be an expert and then feel the need to voice your opinion on whether it’s necessary or not, and question the motives of those doing it.
Lions can’t walk that far.
So…use a private plane that burns 70 gallons of fuel per hour!
Save the planet!
@Ben I do truly think you need to go on a “true” safari. I know you had an amazing trip and Singita’s are stunningly beautiful properties, but at the end of the day they are private reserves; effectively immense natural zoos. I really do not mean to bash Singita or similar properties because they do a lot of good for the local communities and they are beautiful. I had an amazing stay at a Singita. But after doing a “real” safari in Tanzania and Kenya, there is something very different and special about it compared to what the private reserves can offer. You just feel like you’re truly in the wild. There are some extremely luxurious “glamping” options you could look into, and I’m sure Ford could assist with booking.
Unless very short distances where a plane is not practical this is how it has to be done where they are sedated. Transporting by land in small cages over a long distance is very stressful and the climate has to be regulated. Moving them around to different reserves helps the different populations. It’s not done for tourism. It’s done to make sure there are viable prides.
gives new meaning to the phrase – lay flats
looks more comfortable than some of the recent flights that I have been on
at least the passengers are restrained
sorry – couldn’t resist……
you better don’t upset those passengers!! for sure I wouldn’t like to be that FA. .
Better behaved than most fellow passengers
Love to get one as a house pet
Probably end all solicitors who won’t take no for an answer
The lion is there for your benefit. Wildlife populations are carefully managed in South Africa. Kruger park and other reserves are just that – largest tracts of land with managed wildlife. Some would call them essentially zoos. Nothing surprising here, this is all for tourism. What sells is the property itself; I mean a giraffe is a giraffe right?
Lions kill and eat other wildlife, pets, livestock and people. They are very good at this, almost unstoppable. Consider that any time a smaller but still dangerous cougar frequents a US suburban neighborhood. Nearly always it is killed to eliminate the danger. If there were not game reserves and zoos the extinction of lions would be inevitable. I won’t argue this is not the lesser of evils but, now we have billions of people in the world which makes things more complicated
My first thought looking at the picture of those tranquilized lions in that cabin is man, that guy must really be hoping they got the dose right.
Next time someone you know complains about flying in cattle class because their upgrade didn’t clear, tell them it it still better than lion class
I am raised in Africa. These two reserves are for game preservation , NOT hunting . Hunting is only offered at game farms and lions are not usually included . I am against hunting , but it does keep many people in Africa in a job and feeds their families , that is their argument ( not my argument )
This reserve is not about hunting, true. But hunting is a big business , in which the mega profits go to the organisers/owners, while chicken feed goes to communities. It’s designed for loathsome foreigners ( ‘the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable’ , Oscar Wilde) with a (mostly) testosterone-fuelled bloodlust who engage in highly orchestrated ‘canned’ hunts. The repugnant Eric Trump ( anagram: rectum rip) is a case in point.
Can you imagine being the lion and waking up finding yourself somewhere you’d never seen before and wondering how the hell did that happen!
Muzzled and Sedated. Thats the future of human air (and space) travel!
why say they weigh alomst 200 kg? is the blog directed at mostly americans or other people? if americans, then please give the weight in pounds. thank you.
why cant the weight be given in pounds?
interesting to see what happens when they are denied “their” free-flight beverage or the FA’s run out of their favorite meal….. probably a similar response to some Elite fliers
I cannot convert kg to lb. I never passed sixth grade. Oh wait, I did, but it was in the US so I can’t do arithmetic.
Kg to lb is very simple : x 2.2 , so 200 = 440. It’s long overdue for the US to give up the archaic system of weights and measurements.
Spent 2 months private safari 2019 from TZ(Tanzania) through Zambia Botswania where I got chased by elephant in campground. Namibia, Malawai and back to TZ. 2-3 N.P.’s each country. Etoshi N.P. in Namiba had one campground that had “game park”feel in that it had a water hole and elevatated viewing balcony. But we saw
all the big 5 and more and didn’t spend hrs doing game drives…. But Namiba parks are really will managed and lots visitors compared to say Kativa N.P. in TZ where we were only tourists in cabins and ln game drive… Most tourists dont get out of the Arusha kilmi northern part TZ. So yea generally big isolated N.P.’s best way if you have time/money to do them.
This is luxury compared to the way black rhinos are transported in Namibia. The rhinos get hung upside down from a helicopter and moved that way! (OK some but not all do and per a study the country paid Cornell it’s actually better for the rhinos than moving them on their sides.)
You don’t want to be on that plane in the air if those lions start waking up prematurely.
@Daniel – I believe the US is still using the “pounds” system ? They have never been metric – I’m sure most people have the ability to use their phones to convert