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Jack Leslie.

Leslie was the first black footballer to be given an England national football team call up - way back in 1925.

He was selected as a non-travelling reserve.

His manager, "Bob Jack", told him he had been selected as a reserve for England against Ireland for an October 1925 Home Nations Championship game.

However, the invitation to be a reserve for his country was later withdrawn.

It has been speculated that this was because of belated objections to his skin colour by members of the FA who had been unaware of his ethnicity.

Later in life, Leslie told the journalist "Brian Woolnough":

"They must have forgot I was a coloured boy."