By Ollie Irish
Arthur Wharton - Wharton, of mixed race (Scottish/Grenadian/Ghanaian), was the first black player to play professional football, not just in Britain but anywere. He was a very athletic goalkeeper with a fine turn of pace, and he occasionally played on the wing. The English clubs he played for include Darlington, Preston North End, Rotherham Town and Sheffield United.
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I rather comically misread the title as ’10 Black Panthers In British Football’.
Great list. Gil Scott-Heron’s dad briefly played for Celtic in the early 50′s, by the way.
Cyrille had two tickets the gun show. Kapow!!!
@ Philando – and that’s just an amazing factoid right there.
Not forgetting Andrew Watson who was playing earlier than Arthur Wharton & notched up many ‘firsts’ as a black player. His page on FURD ..
http://www.furd.org/default.asp?intPageID=37
Can’t believe no Clyde best
Paul – fair shout. I clean forgot about Clyde. He definitely deserves a mention, so thanks for the namecheck.
where’s justin fashanu? the only black player to ever, in fact the only PLAYER to ever publicly announce he was gay. he committed suicide in 1997 by hanging himself.
where is carlton palmer on that list ?
what about Vince Hilaire
Albert Johanssen and Viv Anderson
No mention on Lloyd Lindbergh “Lindy” Delpenha A Jamaican who won the Championship with Portsmouth in 1948 and played for Middlesbrough from 1950 -56 ?
Wasn’t Jean Tigana of Fulham the first black man to manage in the top flight rather than Paul Ince?
no emile heskey???
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Ollie – the one you missed is Albert Johanneson who played for Leeds in the 1960s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Johanneson He died very young (55) in the 1990s but according to my dad was very popular at Leeds at the time
Yes Incey
this guy was my idol back in the day, still think he was pure class, hope he can get a chance to manage a premiership team again we need more black managers
Keith Alexander should be on the list. Keith was the first black manager in English football way back in 1993 at Lincoln City and then returned for a second spell from 2002 for four seasons.
Keith was an inspiration to a lot of people both in and out of the game.