
Ruud Gullit and the Struggle for South African Freedom
When Gullit won the Ballon d’Or in 1987, he dedicated the award to the imprisoned Nelson Mandela; then made a reggae song about Apartheid.
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Kieran Dodds, a research student at University of Cambridge, works on football in late colonial Lesotho.

When Gullit won the Ballon d’Or in 1987, he dedicated the award to the imprisoned Nelson Mandela; then made a reggae song about Apartheid.

A short history of football, nation building and the consolidation of pan-African solidarity in 1960s Ghana.

The Newcastle United defender, Steven Taylor, is another no-nonsense (racist) English centre-half.