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BLACK AND WHITE TRUTH OF ALBERT JOHANNESON

DOM SMITH traces the troubled life of the first black man to play in the FA Cup final

“Albert Johanneson is one of the few, I don’t know where he comes from but I think it’s Timbuktu”
As a boyhood Leeds fan, I was thrilled when I was bought a CD of famous club songs, and I soon loved the catchy ‘Leeds United Calypso’, which celebrated Leeds’ promotion from Division Two in 1964. The line above quickly became my favourite, and I used to sing it repeatedly around the house.
It was only when I started reading Paul Harrison’s excellent biograp...

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