Settling the score over Bobby Moore’s blue plaque

Newcastle United football team, circa 1905. Colin Veitch is first on the left, front row. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

While Bobby Moore may be the first footballer to be honoured, in London, with an English Heritage plaque (Report, 27 July), he is not the first footballer to be recognised in this way. In 2013, here in the north-east, Heaton History Group ran a successful campaign to have Colin Veitch awarded a Newcastle City Council black plaque, on his house.

Veitch captained Newcastle United to three Football League championships and six FA Cup final appearances in the Edwardian era. He was a committed socialist, and a founder of Newcastle’s amateur People’s Theatre, for which he also acted.

Another example perhaps of the Guardian being late on to the field with its London-centric reporting.
Colin Denton
Newcastle upon Tyne

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