became the world's 1st of a black professional footballer signed for the messiest idema bootle a young man called john bob sign for liverpool football club john welcome to the alex aman show thank you very much for the pleasure under what's a given have the figure of this extraordinary story of a black captain of scotland led his team into sex one flashing a final and that was lost from the the annals of football history why do you think that is i obviously was on your come on the show i did some research on it i did know about scotland's 61 section of england as all englishman do but to know that there was a black man takes a scotland of the time of course not why was last of the annals of history was because of course a lot of people you can go back to someone for example like tony collins who was the 1st manager back manager from rochdale who won the league cup that no one knows about we assume that that's what we're starting with the band isn't and that manager started with in the eighty's or ninety's whatever the 1st manager came up so of course we don't know much about the historical aspect of so many blacks think it's in history a