View Full Version : Excellent Giles Heron article on espn.com
Dan Loney
15 Feb 2007, 05:07 PM
Who is Giles Heron? He was the first black player for Celtic. I'd never heard of him, but for Frank Dell'Appa's article today. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blackhistory2007/news/story?id=2763306
JerseyTexan
15 Feb 2007, 05:16 PM
Yeah, Heron's story is almost never told. I've seen it mentioned more in the music press (his son is the musician Gil Scott Heron) than in the sporting one. Lame.
prvev
15 Feb 2007, 06:21 PM
his son is the musician Gil Scott Heron
Really? I know of both (although I admittedly know more of Gil Scott) and I never even thought about it.
posty-mcpost
15 Feb 2007, 09:46 PM
So this revolution was not televised? Great article, thanks.
Sandon Mibut
15 Feb 2007, 10:25 PM
So this revolution was not televised? Great article, thanks.I've heard that phrase most of my life and never knew it was the son of a black quasi-American soccer player who said it. (And I like to think I know a lot about the history of US soccer and the contributions of blacks to the American game.)
Kinda ironic that television is what will bring the soccer revolution to the mainstream!
CherryBomb
15 Feb 2007, 11:43 PM
A black player for Celtic way back in 1951. That seems amazingly progressive. I wonder if he was a protestant too.
Anteaters FC
16 Feb 2007, 12:46 AM
I've seen metnion of Giles Heron in When Saturday Comes and online, but only really as trivia (mostly because of the Gil Scott-Heron connection). Sounds like he led quite a life, and sad that we'll probably never really know the extent of it (or the lives of so many other players from America's past).
Parkhead_Faithful
16 Feb 2007, 11:34 AM
A black player for Celtic way back in 1951. That seems amazingly progressive.
Look up scotland player Andrew Watson and Mohammed Abdul Salim for celtic.
JerseyTexan
16 Feb 2007, 02:39 PM
I've heard that phrase most of my life and never knew it was the son of a black quasi-American soccer player who said it. (And I like to think I know a lot about the history of US soccer and the contributions of blacks to the American game.)
Kinda ironic that television is what will bring the soccer revolution to the mainstream!
Oh man it's great song (the revolution will not be televised). There is a link to download it at the end of the Chelsea piece at the top of the page
http://www.theoffsiderules.blogspot.com