DOM SMITH traces the troubled life of the first black man to play in the FA Cup final

“Albert Johanneson is one of the few, I don’t know where he comes from but I think it’s Timbuktu”As a boyhood Leeds fan, I was thrilled when I was bought a CD of famous club songs, and I soon loved the catchy ‘Leeds United Calypso’, which celebrated Leeds’ promotion from Division Two in 1964. The line above quickly became my favourite, and I used to sing it repeatedly around the house.It was only when I started reading Paul Harrison’s excellent biog...