{"id":2163,"date":"2026-04-22T10:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:12:39","slug":"arsenal-explained-who-was-our-first-black-player-video-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=2163","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Explained: Who was our first black player? | Video | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>In our latest episode of Arsenal Explained, we&#8217;re celebrating the first black player to wear our famous jersey, <strong>Brendon Batson<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born in Grenada to a Trinidadian family, Brendon came to England as a nine-year-old in 1962, and 10 years on, he made his Arsenal debut against Newcastle United in March 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Brendon hadn&#8217;t even seen a football during his time in the Caribbean, but within a decade of reaching these shores, he was turning out in N5.<\/p>\n<p>Press play on our video above to find out more about the extraordinary story of Brendon.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"2e4964ec-cc70-45be-ae19-6d99a7b7836f\" data-embed-button=\"article_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:node.tiny\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<article data-article-id=\"95162\" about=\"\/news\/black-history-month-brendon-batsons-story\">\n<div class=\"article-card article-card--tiny card\" data-eq-pts=\"xsmall: 200, small: 550, medium: 640, large: 768\">\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n<p>\n         <span class=\"h6 article-card__subhead\">Read more<\/span>                             <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-card__title has-icon\" title=\"Black History Month: Brendon Batson's story\"> <i class=\"icon icon--play\"\/> <span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Black History Month: Brendon Batson&#8217;s story <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our latest episode of Arsenal Explained, we&#8217;re celebrating the first black player to wear our famous jersey, Brendon Batson. Born in Grenada to a Trinidadian family, Brendon came to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}