Soccer View: Imports...

Overseas players were not common in England in the pre Premier League era. Now almost 70% of top flight players are foreign.
Right back in the 19th century Walter Bowman (Canada) played in the Football League, later on came Denmark's Nils Middleboe, French international Eugène Langenove and the Egyptians Hussein Hegazi and Tewfik Abdallah. South African Gordon Hodgson played for England. I won't count Max Seeburg or Ted and Jorge Robledo- they were children when they came to Britain. Similarly Bert Trautmann didn't enter the country as a footballer.
During the 1950s and 1960s there were 2 remarkable men from Southern Africa playing in English football-Steve Mokone and Albert Johanneson, More about them soon...
In the late 70s and early 80s the influx of overseas stars began. This is not a list of all of those players who came to Britain to play, just some of the ones I remember...