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12 Nov 2012 09:19 #110689
by The Captain
[color=rgb(52, 54, 56)]Guyana-born Scotland’s first black footballer in Hall of Fame[/color]
[color=rgb(71, 71, 71)]THE man believed to be first black footballer to play at the top level of the game, former Scotland captain Andrew Watson, was inducted in to the nation’s footballing Hall of Fame today.[/color]
[color=rgb(71, 71, 71)]Watson was born in Guyana and lived in Govan, Glasgow. During his career, the “exceptional defender†played for Queen’s Park, Parkgrove and Corinthians as well as Scotland for whom he had an impeccable record of wins. He was inducted in to the Scottish Football Hall of Fame at a dinner at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow.[/color]
[color=rgb(71, 71, 71)]Watson’s award – only the second for a player from the Victorian era – was collected by Richard McBrearty, curator of the Scottish Football Museum which hosts the Hall of Fame.[/color]
[color=rgb(71, 71, 71)]Watson won three caps for Scotland in the 1880s, but his remarkable story only emerged a decade ago after pictures were discovered by researchers at the Scottish Football Museum in Glasgow. Until then, Englishman Arthur Wharton, a Preston North End star, was accepted as the first black player.[/color]
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12 Nov 2012 09:21 - 12 Nov 2012 09:43 #110690
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[color=rgb(71, 71, 71)]“On his debut for Scotland in 1881 he was captain of team who defeated England 6-1 in London, which remains their heaviest defeat on home soil to this day. That alone is significant. He was also recognised as a sporting celebrity and had star billing, but as the 20th century progressed he was largely forgotten.â€[/color]
Watson, the son of a Scottish merchant, Peter Miller Watson, spent his early years in Guyana, then a British colony in South America, but was educated in Britain.
[/color][color=rgb(71, 71, 71)]He first appears in the records as a player for Maxwell FC in 1874 – some 11 years earlier than Wharton’s footballing debut for Darlington.[/color][color=rgb(71, 71, 71)]
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