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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1958 Chevrolet Impala GTA V Mod Looks Spot On, Is a Nightmare to Drive

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22 Aug 2021, 08:06 UTC · 
1958 is the year that brought us the Impala nameplate, though at first, it was only offered as a top-of-the-line version of the Bel Air.
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But given its immense success, Chevrolet decided to turn it into a stand-alone series only a year later, therefore giving birth to a model that eventually managed to become the first car in the United States to sell more than 1 million units in just 12 months on the market.

It happened in 1965, the year when the GM brand rolled out the fourth-generation Impala, which itself continued to sell like hotcakes until it started losing ground in the late ‘60s.

But the 1958 Impala still has a well-deserved place in automotive history books, and this is why there are lots of people out there who’d give anything just to be able to drive one.

Needless to say, owning such a beaut isn’t easy, as an example in mint condition is worth a small fortune, but fortunately, you can still hop behind the wheel of a 1958 Impala without paying a single cent thanks to videogames.

Grand Theft Auto V, for example, gives you this opportunity thanks to a recent pack published by modder GreenAid on GTA5-Mods. The 1958 Impala looks spot on, as you can see for yourselves in the gallery here, despite the mod still requiring a series of refinements, including as far as the handling is concerned.

Because yes, handling this original Impala is quite a challenge, yet some see it as a feature, not a bug, since it makes the experience overall more similar to the one you get when driving a classic car that launched no less than 63 years ago.

Other than that, the mod comes with both hardtop and convertible body styles, working lights, and custom colors, though you may want to check out the installation instructions to get them right.
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