10 Black Pioneers In British Football

Walter Tull - After Arthur Wharton, Tull was the second person of Afro-Caribbean/mixed-race heritage to play in the top flight of the Football League, and the first to be commissioned as an infantry officer in the British Army. His professional football career began after he was spotted whilst playing for his local amateur club, Clapton FC. Tull, an athletic wing-half, played for Tottenham between 1909-1911, but spent the majority of his pro career with Northampton Town, before he went to fight in the First World War, thereby putting paid to a proposed transfer to Glasgow Rangers.