100 hundred years later the first black football player to get the England call up finally gets his cap.

Though it is a widely known fact that Viv Anderson was the first black player to win a full international cap for England, in 1978, it is barely heard of that the first black player to be selected for England was Jack Leslie, a versatile forward with Plymouth Argyle — and that was 53 years earlier. The […]

100 hundred years later the first black football player to get the England call up finally gets his cap.
Though it is a widely known fact that Viv Anderson was the first black player to win a full international cap for England, in 1978, it is barely heard of that the first black player to be selected for England was Jack Leslie, a versatile forward with Plymouth Argyle — and that was 53 years earlier. The […]