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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The war for talent in the UK shows little sign of abating, with employers adding almost 200,000 job adverts in the last week of August.

That’s according to a survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, which found there were almost 1.7 million “active” vacancies registered online.

Dispensing opticians, driving instructors and vehicle mechanics were in increasing demand.

Acute staff shortages are forcing many firms to raise wages and disrupting supply chains.

That’s fueling concerns about both inflation and the sustainability of the economic recovery.

The number of vacancies advertised in the last five weeks rose to the highest since December last year, according to the REC report.

“Demand for workers remains very high across the economy and shows no signs of weakening,” said REC Chief Executive Neil Carberry.

“With businesses in the particularly squeezed food, logistics and hospitality sectors starting to gear up for Christmas, the months ahead could be difficult – even with a large number of people coming off furlough in August and September.”

Six out of the top 10 locations for new job postings were in Scotland as the country opened up further.

Sunderland in northeast England and many parts of Northern Ireland saw a decline.


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