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This essential documentary catalogues everything black footballers have done for the beautiful game – and the disgraceful abuse they have suffered in returnWhen Hope Powell became the first black coach of the England women’s team in 1998, she grew her dreadlocks. It was a statement of pride in who she is. “I was quite militant,” she tells this film’s presenter, poet Benjamin Zephaniah.At 31, Powell confounded the idea that you can’t be what you can’t see. Growing up, the south London girl of Caribbean ancestry never saw any football role models who looked like her. Continue reading...