Andrew Watson – Scotland’s captain – 1881
Football pioneer: Andrew Watson – the first black international
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Andrew Watson was the first black player to play international football
- He captained Scotland on his debut, a 6-1 win over archrivals England
- It remains the heaviest home defeat suffered by England
- Watson was born in British Guiana and the son of a Glasgow merchant
(CNN) — Modern football is a melting pot of cultures, as players from a variety of ethnic backgrounds share top billing as superstars.
It is not always a comfortable mix, as can be seen by the recent racism rows involving John Terry and Luis Suarez. But football’s pantheon of stars has not always been such a rich multicultural tapestry. Far from it. [Read more]
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Celebrating the great memories of Andrew Watson [1856-1921]
Andrew Watson was the son of a wealthy Scottish sugar planter Peter Miller Watson, (the son of James Watson, of Crantit, Orkney, Scotland) and a local British Guianese woman named Anna Rose- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Watson_%28footballer%29
Nice one Dimitri…thanks
My Scottish friends will receive copy…..but my English friends
won’t like to receive it….ha ha ! One of my daughters married a scot
who wore his tartan kilt on the big day….she Guyana born he Glasgow
born…my grandson recently graduated with honours investment banking
“Unemployed”@ moment…temporary hopefully….my granddaughter on 5 year
scholarship she won for best school in south of England….taught by monks.
My guess is mixture of the many bloods DNA GNOME has something to do with it.
Andrew Watson may have benefited from the mix of bloodline ….a scientific fact
today that the mixture of the species enhances their chances oif “survival”….
Today as our world becomes more accessible the mixture of the species may
enjoy the benefits of interbreeding. Hitler re-incarnate !!
The “good” lives after him the evil buried with him….William S rewritten.
Kamptan
Hitler again? Reincarnate? No further comment.
Hitler s dream of a super race must never be forgiven or forgotten my friend…
It proves how “power” can distort/destroy our rationality…..
“Hitler reincarnate” is but a reminder his legacy ….the German people
will have to live with…..sorry if you find the reminder distasteful.
Most of my German friends don’t.
Kamptan