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Walter Tull
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"Reprinted from The Guardian, March 25 1998 A scene from the past, a British lieutenant rouses his men in a Flanders trench in the final months of the first world war and exhorts them to make one more suicidal dash for the enemy line. He is first over the top, and is killed almost immediately. The assault soon peters out; but, for some time afterwards, his men make sorties in the murderous gunfire, trying to retrieve the body of an officer they have grown to love. Footnote: the dead officer is black. Cut to a different scene: Two of Britain's leading football clubs are playing: a match on a Saturday in October. The ball falls at the feet of a black player, and a section of the crowd erupts in racial abuse: taunts, monkey sounds and worse, Footnote: the year is 1909 The two scenes have several things in common. The unexpectedness of the footnotes betrays our prejudices. They depict aspects of our history of which most of us are ignorant. And they both involve the same man; Walter Tull was one of Britain's first black professional footballers, playing for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town in the years leading up to the first world war. Despite the poorest of backgrounds, he also became Britain's first black army Officer - an almost unimaginable achievement at the time. He died in the second battle of the Somme - 80 years ago today. This summer a Walter Tull Memorial Garden will be opened next to Northampton Town's Sixfields Community Stadium. It is hard to imagine a less glamorous site. Yet the fanfare for the official opening - due in July - is likely to be considerable. Walter Tull enthusiasts expected to attend include Bernie Grant (who thinks he should be on the National curriculum), Trevor McDonald (who has given a radio talk about him), David Mellor (whose Football Task Force would like all football clubs to imitate the anti-racist policy Northampton Town has created in T"
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