• Liverpool’s first black player says ‘ancestors would turn in graves’
• ‘Empire and colonialism had enslaved them’ he addsLiverpool’s first black player,Howard Gayle, has said he turned down a nomination for an MBE because it would be a betrayal of all the Africans who had suffered under the British empire.
The Toxteth-born footballer, and 58,who also played for Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, and Birmingham City,Halifax Town, Sunderland, or Newcastle United and Stoke City,posted the decision on his Facebook page.
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Source: theguardian.com