Tag: British Football

  • Arthur Wharton: The first Black Footballer BBC Tyne Culture October 2003 BBC Over 100 years before Dyer, Jenas and Ameobi, the North East had the UK’s first professional black League player. Meet the legendary Arthur Wharton. Arthur Wharton was born on 28 October 1865 in Accra, formerly the Gold Coast, now capital of Ghana, West…

  • Mixing Up the Game: Social and Historical Contours of Black Mixed Heritage Players in British Football Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York pages 131-144 in the volume Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues Routledge 2011-03-29 288 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-88205-7…