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12 black players at Rangers


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  1. Ugo Ehiogu
  2. Mark Walters
  3. Jean Alain Boumsong
  4. Rod Wallace
  5. Emerson
  6. Makhtar N'Diaye
  7. Russel Latapy
  8. Marvin Andrews
  9. Basile Boli
  10. Giovanni Van Bronckhorst
  11. Jose-Karl Pierre-Fanfan
  12. Moses Ashikodi

Jean-Claude Darcheville (soon to be)

There you go mate. I'm sure there's another couple.

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hamed namouchi

Moses Ashikodi

Dale Gordon was the english guy i was thinking about

Ahh yeah, he's good ^^. I have a couple more too:

  1. Ugo Ehiogu
  2. Mark Walters
  3. Jean Alain Boumsong
  4. Rod Wallace
  5. Emerson
  6. Makhtar N'Diaye
  7. Russel Latapy
  8. Marvin Andrews
  9. Basile Boli
  10. Giovanni Van Bronckhorst
  11. Jose-Karl Pierre-Fanfan
  12. Moses Ashikodi
  13. hamed namouchi
  14. Dale Gordon
  15. Marcus Gayle
  16. Jean-Claude Darcheville (soon to be)

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Other clubs wanted to sign Walter Tull and in 1914 Glasgow Rangers began negotiations with Northampton Town. However, before he could play for them the First World War was declared. Tull immediately abandoned his career and offered his services to the British Army. Walter, like many professional players, joined the 1st Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. The Army soon recognised Tull's leadership qualities and he was quickly promoted to the rank of sergeant.

In July 1916, Tull took part in the major Somme offensive. Tull survived this experience but in December 1916 he developed trench fever and was sent home to England to recover. Tull had impressed his senior officers and recommended that he should be considered for further promotion. When he recovered from his illness, instead of being sent back to France, he went to the officer training school at Gailes in Scotland. Despite military regulations forbidding "any negro or person of colour" being an officer, Tull received his commission in May, 1917.

Lieutenant Walter Tull was sent to the Italian front. This was an historic occasion because Tull was the first ever black officer in the British Army. He led his men at the Battle of Piave and was mentioned in dispatches for his "gallantry and coolness" under fire.

Tull stayed in Italy until 1918 when he was transferred to France to take part in the attempt to break through the German lines on the Western Front. On 25th March, 1918, 2nd Lieutenant Tull was ordered to lead his men on an attack on the German trenches at Favreuil. Soon after entering No Mans Land Tull was hit by a German bullet. Tull was such a popular officer that several of his men made valiant efforts under heavy fire from German machine-guns to bring him back to the British trenches. These efforts were in vain as Tull had died soon after being hit. One of the soldiers who tried to rescue him later told his commanding officer that Tull was "killed instantaneously with a bullet through his head." Tull's body was never found.

guy was a hero

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