Tag: England
Paul Reaney – The First Player of Colour Selected for England...
Paul Reaney made his Leeds United debut on 8 September 1962. He was 17 years old. The game was away to Swansea Town. Sixteen...
Clyde Best: The Black Pioneer Who Scored Through the Noise
Before there was Viv Anderson. Before there was Cyrille Regis. Before there was John Barnes. There was Clyde Best. He was born in Bermuda...
The Champion They Wouldn’t Crown: Len Johnson and Britain’s Colour Bar
Leonard Benker Johnson was born on October 22, 1902, in Clayton, Manchester. His father was a merchant seaman from Sierra Leone. His mother was...
