As Sky Sports celebrates Black History Month, the creator of a new book called Black Arsenal tells Nick Wright about Arsenal's unique connection with Black identity and the players who helped to shape it

In August 1992, on the eve of the inaugural Premier League season, Arsenal manager George Graham summoned his players to Highbury to acclimatise to the prospect of playing in front of a huge mural concealing construction work on the North Bank.

Noting the absence of any Black faces among the rows of supporters depicted in the mural, which had been commissioned by the club to an external design firm, a perplexed Kevin Campbell approached passing vice-chair David Dein with a question.

"Mr Dein," he said. "Where are my brothers?"

It proved a significant intervention.

Dein, embarrassed by the oversight, offered apologies to Campbell and his Black team-mates and promised swift action. By the time of Arsenal's second home game of the campaign, following a 4-2 loss to Norwich in their opener, the mural had been corrected to give a more accurate representation of the club's increasingly diverse fanbase.

Campbell's approach...