Fighting Footballer

Fighting Footballer is a competency-based thematic unit with a history focus, telling the compelling story of Walter Tull. He was one of Britain’s first Black footballers whose career was cut short by the First World War. During the war, however, he earned his commission as an officer in the British Army, the first Black man to hold the title. The racial prejudice he faced both on the football field and in the army was significant but that never stopped him from displaying courage, commitment and care for his community.