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
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Brilliant!
Ditto. Ditto.
Absolutely agree, certainly one of the best to date. Well done!!
absolutely accurate as always 🙂
I particularly like the redeployment inflatable. I wouldn’t buy the Gwede Mantashe playset because it doesn’t come with a 20 billion bailout after it explodes!
I wonder if the broom can sweep smallinyamas
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The best yet!!
Excellent! Can’t it be used as an election poster?
Excellent, creative, to the point. Many, including myself, had much hope that CR would straighten out the ANC, but it’s clear that this is not to be. Incompetence, corruption, rooted so deep that reform is an impossible task. Unfortunately this is taking down our country further down the road of poverty and despair. The only solution, like those unwanted weeds in a garden, is eradication. I doubt that their garage sale will go down well, but think that the broom has a long story to tell, as this has swept billions, if not trillions, under the carpet.
Love this! Well done!
Nailed it!