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Corinthian-Casuals – The First Seventy Years: 1939-2009 Paperback – 1 Jun. 2017
by Robn Cavallini (Author)
The origins of the Corinthian-Casuals Football Club can be traced back well over a century to the early days of the Association game before professionalism was legalised. The famous Corinthian and Casuals sides, founded in 1882 and 1883 respectively, joined forces in 1939 and the combined club is now the last of the great pioneer teams still playing as amateurs in senior non-league football. Corinthian-Casuals’ first league season eded dramatically after only one match with the syspension of all football upon the outbreak of war. Since then, the clubs’ eventful history has included an appearances in the F.A. Amateur Cup Final of 1956, when 80,000 spectators were present, two matches against Football League opposition in the First Round Proper of the F.A. Cup, and a unique 125th Anniversary game at the new Wembley Stadium. This is the most detailed account of Corinthian-Casuals ever published and it includes a season by season review of the team’s progress, all final league tables, and numerous photographs and press reports from the past 70 years. Football fans will be fascinated by the story of a club which has come to symbolise the Golden Age of the amateur player and which continues to foster the Corinthian Spirit in today’s increasingly commercialised game.




