Hasselbaink retraces steps of football pioneer and war hero Tull

[mawspurs]

Northampton manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink travels to northern France to see where the club's former player Walter Tull fell during the the Battle of the Somme.

Read the full article at BBC

 

[mawspurs]

Lammy is calling for Tull to get the MC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43504286

 

[onthetwo]

Trippier is 'mixed-race?' (whatever that means these days?)

 

[Lilbaz]

Lammy is calling for Tull to get the MC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43504286

They should give it to him. I'm usually a bit wary of pc publicity but he deserved to be awarded it. Great man.

 

[hellava_tough]

A somewhat forgotten legend of the game and our club. Here's some more info on him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Tull

Hope he gets the MC

RIP Walter Tull

 

[gusrowe]

Well deserved.

 

[thecook]

It would be fitting to do something at the new stadium I hope

 

[Lilbaz]

A somewhat forgotten legend of the game and our club. Here's some more info on him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Tull

Hope he gets the MC

RIP Walter Tull

Not sure about forgotten. His name comes up quite regularly. Far more widely known than most other prewar players.

 

[Zammo]

As a Spurs fan living in Northampton, he certainly isn't forgotten here. Northampton's Sixfields stadium is built on Walter Tull Way. I'm very proud that he represented our club at what must have been an incredibly difficult time to be a black player.

 

[Kingstheman]

Got to love the press from over 100 years ago:

"a section of the spectators made a cowardly attack on him in language lower than Billingsgate".

 

[Lilbaz]

Got to love the press from over 100 years ago:

"a section of the spectators made a cowardly attack on him in language lower than Billingsgate".

Have to hate the fact our press was more critical of racial abuse 100 years ago than most european press and uefa is today.

 

[Jody]

Credit to Jimmy F-H too. Didn't need to do that. Wish more would.

 

[mawspurs]

The BBC are going to cover this on football focus today on bbc 1 at noon.

 

[nferno]

It’s extraordinary that he voluntareed to defend his country despite that meaning he was defending so many disgusting-minded dimwits who jeered him for being black.

Big respect.

 

[fluffybunnyuk]

I'm so glad to see that Walter Tull has been remembered, and by so many.
I wanted to write something about him, but for the last month I've failed to conjure any suitable ones that i felt befitted him.
If someone ever needs a role model this man surely is a measure of such things.
A great man who should be honoured fittingly not just for his deeds but also for his legacy.

 

[Sweetsman]

Trippier is 'mixed-race?' (whatever that means these days?)

I might be guessing here, but it means that he doesn't have ethnic heritage from one source in the near past; very much like Ryan Giggs.

 

[Sweetsman]

Got to love the press from over 100 years ago:

"a section of the spectators made a cowardly attack on him in language lower than Billingsgate".

Another reference to those loveable rogues from West Ham.

 

[Sweetsman]

I was thinking of Walter Tull when I read about Cyrille Regis getting racial abuse from Spurs fans. The even greater irony was that he grew up a Spurs fan.