Tracing the game’s Black pioneers

Brian Mulligan meets Bill Hern, co-author of a unique history of footballing firsts It’s hard to believe now, but there was a time when few Black players featured on teamsheets around England. Long after the iconic outliers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Rotherham’s Arthur Wharton and Northampton’s Walter Tull, it wasn’t until the 1970s […]
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