Walter Tull: Profile of a Pioneer
Football Ramble
Stak Production
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🗓️ 23 March 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
100 years ago this weekend, Walter Tull was killed in action in the First World War. While not a name that immediately springs to mind when we think of the people that influenced our game the most over the years, Tull was a pioneer.
We first profiled him back in November 2009, and with increasing calls for him to be recognised posthumously for his services both to football and the military, we thought it would be nice to re-release his entry into our hall of fame from nine or so years ago.
His story is incredible and his contribution to football and society in general can never be underestimated.
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| 0:00.0 | A hundred years ago today, Walter Tull was killed in action in the first world war. |
| 0:06.2 | While not on aim that immediately springs to mind when we think of people that influenced |
| 0:09.8 | our game the most over the years, Tull was a pioneer. |
| 0:13.6 | We first profiled him back in November of 2009 and with increasing cars from to be recognised |
| 0:19.3 | posthumously for services both the football and the military, we thought it would be nice |
| 0:23.8 | to re-release entry into a hall of fame from 9 or so years ago. |
| 0:28.0 | His story is incredible and his contribution to football and society in general can never |
| 0:33.6 | be underestimated. |
| 0:34.6 | Here's the profile. |
| 0:38.6 | But it is profile time of course and I am, I was, you know, recently we had a remembrance |
| 0:54.1 | day in a, you know, people wearing the poppies in around Britain and so on and I was looking |
| 0:59.9 | through the history books and seeing players who were in the army as well and one just |
| 1:05.3 | leapt out at me and let me just bring to the table Walter Tull. |
| 1:09.9 | Now you might not have heard of this man but he was the first black officer in the British |
| 1:14.7 | army but the second black player ever to play in the top division of the football league |
| 1:21.9 | in this country. |
| 1:23.4 | So quite a magnificent man already. |
| 1:25.4 | He liked shooting. |
| 1:27.4 | He did. |
| 1:28.4 | Haha, yeah. |
| 1:29.4 | Good to see what you have done there Pete. |
| 1:31.5 | So here we, Walter Tull, born and focused on the 28th of April, 1888. |
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