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AMBERS
Official Matchday Programme CHESHUNT FOOTBALL CLUB
v Corinthian Casuals FC. 3pm August 26th
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INTRODUCTIONS & WHO IS WHO AT THE
AMBERS CHESHUNT FOOTBALL CLUB
The Stadium
Theobalds Lane
Good Afternoon ,
Cheshunt
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Welcome to Theobalds Lane Cheshunt on bank Holiday Monday. We
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welcome the Management , Players, Officials & of course fans of
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Corinthian Casuals FC, a team with a rich and much documented
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history that Ambers historian Jim Tuite takes a look at in his article
today.
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COMMITTEE Howard Bailey, Paul Fletcher,
The FA Cup win on Saturday was a welcome result and it was a
Scott Lear, George Norman,Tony Madden,
marvellous day for football at this level, with both sets of supporters
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creating a wonderful atmosphere to enjoy pitch side and in the bar
after, congratulations all round.
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Enjoy The Match today
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ISTMIAN LEAGUE SPARTAN LEAGUE
Division 2 Winners 2003 Champions 1963
Division 2 Runners-up 1982 Spartan League Challenge Cup Winners 1964, 1992
Division 3 Runners-up 1994 Runners-up 1990
Division 3 Promoted 1999
Isthmian League Associate Members Trophy Runners-up 2003 COUNTY CUPS
Herts Senior Cup Runners-up 1949, 1950, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 2003,
ATHENIAN LEAGUE 2009, 2010
Champions 1976 Herts Charity Cup Winners 2006, 2008, 2017
Runners-up 1974 Runners-up 1971, 1975, 1981, 2004, 2011
Division 1 Winners 1968 Herts Senior Charity Shield Winners 1947, 1966
Division 2 Runners-up 1966 Runners-up 1953, 1954, 1955, 1964, 1965
Athenian League Challenge Cup Winners 1975, 1976
EAST ANGLIA CUP
LONDON LEAGUE Winners 1975
Champions 1950, Runners-up 1957 Runners-up 1976
Division 1 Winners 1948, 1949
Division 1 Runners-up 1947 MITHRAS FLOODLIT CUP
London League Challenge Cup Runners-up 1959 Winners 1970
London League Division 1 Cup Winners 1947 Runners-up 1976
London Charity Cup Winners 1974
ROY BAILEY MEMORIAL TROPHY
WALTHAM HOSPITAL CUP Winners 1991, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002
Winners 1947, 1948, 1953, 1956, 1962, 1980, 1981, 1982 Runners-up 2003, 2007
Runners-up 1952, 1959, 1979, 1983, 1985
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Cheshunt 1 Stowmarket Town 0
(Tom Hitchcock pen 59
Emirates FA Cup Preliminary Rd 24th August 2019
A tight first half saw Cheshunt ease into Ten minutes on and a few substitutions later
the game and have the upper hand, saw Toyosi (Tee) causing a lot of problems to
forcing corners and half chances, and the visitors with his turns and change of
squeezing Stowmarket out of the midfield pace. several times he broke free, and shot
with diligent work from Mo Camara & low, only to see a great save from Bradbrook
Fabion Simm, except for one passage of at the near post, then when he repeated the
play that saw Dominic Doherty slalom move he went around the keeper and only a
through two lines of defence to hit a low despairing dive by the Stow centre half with
cross shot that Harry Girling got down to hand ball off the line, kept the game tight with
push past the post. the referee unsighted.
Defensively the Ambers looked
comfortable and on top of Stowmarket's
imported strike force. Ibs Diallo linked
well down the right, and Joe Russell had
probably his best game to date.
Stowmarket stepped up the pressure and
forced further standard saves from Girling,
without really testing him as they pressed
forward in the last quarter, but with Toyosi &
Hitchcock looking to get behind them, they
The second half saw Cheshunt continue were unable to commit enough forward to
to apply pressure, and were duly force a difference.
rewarded when a Joe Re shot from the A fine cup tie contested by two good sides in
edge of the area was handled as a competitive match well supported. The
defenders threw themselves in front of Ambers go into the hat on Tuesday 27th.
the drive. No dispute from the away side
and Tom Hitchcock calmly despatched Girling, Diallo, Russell, McKenzie, Hughes,
the penalty with a rasping shot well clear Simm, (Collins) Camara, Westcott, (Kendall)
of the diving James Bradbrook. Re, Moses, ( Olutosi) Hitchcock.
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DEAN WILLIAMSON
This Bank Holiday sees League action return
to the Lane today as we welcome our visitors
Corinthian Casuals. It’s our second game in
three days, something that would have many
a Premier League manager moaning!
But this is non-league football, the heart of the
game, and we wouldn’t want it any other way.
It amazes me the effort and commitment
required by players at our level of the game,
with two intense training sessions and a
match they are with us three times a week
while balancing work/education and family
commitments.
One player that showed such dedication was
Jason Hallett. You will have read last week
that Jason has moved on, and I would
personally like to thank Jason again for
everything he has given this football club. His
currency was goals, and there were none Enjoy The Match today
better than Jason.
He had a great attitude on and off the pitch COYA !
and was deservedly a fan’s favourite. We all
wish him the very best and look forward to
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In The Dugout
with
Craig Edwards
Firstly I’d like to welcome our Match Day Full backs , Ibs and Joe are growing into
officials to Cheshunt for today's match, and the team, Ibs is so calm and a great role
welcome to everyone who’s travelled with model at right back, and I thought Joe had
Corinthian Casuals, James and his coaching a good match against Stowmarket. The
team , players, officials and of course fans. guys in the middle pipped him for Man of
Most of all welcome to all fans today from the Match. Mo and Fabz worked so hard,
me whichever team you follow, I thoroughly Stowmarket must have felt there were
enjoyed the singing and banter in the ground three of them out there not two.
on Saturday, the Stowmarket & Cheshunt The only bad news from the match is the
fans behind both goals created a great injury to Fabz is worse than first thought
atmosphere. It really epitomised what Non and a torn achilles is going to see him out
League football is about, and to see both for some time. I trust we are not going to
sets of fans talking with each other about the start building up an injury list, Ash is a big
match and the season ahead after the loss, and Fabz will be too, but this is why
game was a pleasure. we operate with a squad, and I will be
looking for the replacements to stake a
I was very pleased with another clean sheet, claim to a start
we have only conceded one goal in three
games now, and that was due to an error we
have all learned from. So defensively we Thank You all for your support,
are looking sound. I'd like to get some more
traction in the last third, we have players Enjoy the match,
with the ability, we need to get them fine
tuned to deliver. I thought 'Tee' did so well
when he came on against Stowmarket, he
could have had a brace within ten minutes,
r a i g
and terrorised the backline with his runs.
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ONE COMMUNITY. ONE CLUB AMBERSLooking Back........ Ambers Historian Jim Tuite has a
look at Cheshunt, the Corinthians, the Casuals and
the great split.
Whist the history of today's visitors, Corinthian
Casuals, is well recorded and celebrated, football has
almost entirely forgotten the original Cheshunt Club
who existed for fifty years until their demise in 1931.
Yet for a few seasons they stood shoulder to shoulder
with the great Edwardian gentlemen clubs, the
Corinthians and the Casuals, as they tried to make a
stand against professionalism in football.
All three clubs were formed within a few years of
each other - Cheshunt in 1881, Corinthian in 1882
and Casuals in 1883. Cheshunt played friendly
games against local clubs and schools for most of
their first twenty years before eventually entering
competitive competitions and seeing success in the A glance at the game of rugby union, again a sport
Herts Charity Cup at the turn of the century. At this played and organised by southern gentleman
time they also entered the FA Cup, beating Upton amateurs, in 1890 should have been a wake up call
Park (once a mighty amateur side but much for their counterparts in football. The Rugby Union
diminished by the 1900's) in the 1904-05 season had zero tolerance for professionalism and so clubs
before going out to Clapton (now Leyton) Orient.They in the north of England broke away to form their
would draw Upton Park again three years later but own organisation, the Rugby League, and for the
that game would never be played, the reasons for next hundred years the amateur and professional
which would also involve the Amateur giants, games existed side by side in an uneasy but
Corinthian and Casuals. workable relationship.The Football Association
though had by that time already let the genie out of
Corinthian Football Club defined the gentlemans
the bottle by allowing professionalism to exist in
Amateur sport of Association football. Formed and
1885, quickly taking shape in the formation of the
played exclusively by upper-class gentlemen in their
football league in 1888. The displeasure of the
spare time, Corinthian were effectively an all-star side
southern Amateurs was appeased when the FA
of England's best amateur players, naming a large
Amateur Cup was created in 1893 but that was
proportion of the early England side from amongst
largely in response to the by then total domination
their numbers and able to beat any side in the land in
on the FA Cup by the northern professional
the 1880's.
clubs.But within a few years, even this competition
The Casuals were made up from former pupils of became problematic as working-class amateur
Eton, Charterhouse and Westminster public schools sides from the north such as Middlesborough and
and, like Corinthian, played in a series of friendlies Bishops Auckland, who's players trained and
against other gentleman amateur clubs to fill their competed just like professionals, came to dominate.
fixture card. The Casuals never entered the FA Cup This was the final straw for several of the 'old boys'
until the 1890's as they considered playing for a sides and in 1903 they formed the Arthur Dunn
trophy and medals a 'reward' and therefore against Cup, a competition just for public school former
their amateur principles.Yet their world was changing. pupils sides,
The success of Blackburn Olympic and then
Blackburn Rovers in the FA Cup showed the tide was
turning away from the southern based amateur
gentleman game to that of the northern, working-
class professional one.
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Tuite
and contented themselves with that.Corinthian and the in 1907/08.This of course meant Casuals
Casuals however battled on in the wider footballing withdrawing from the FA affiliated Isthmian league
world, convincing themselves that their Amateur and Cheshunt dropping out of the FA Cup - hence
principles would prevail over those of the professional Upton Park's 'walkover' being recorded in the
and the 'sham-ateur' - a name given to the working- 1907/08 preliminary tie. To compensate, as well as
class amateur who might find himself unofficially the SAL, an AFA cup was created with Casuals
compensated for time off work by his club, a practice becoming the first winners, beating Old
loathed by the gentleman player. Carthusians 3-1 in the final at the Queens Club,
The Casuals entered the Isthmian league as founder West Kensington (home ground of Corinthians) in
members in 1905/06 (finishing mid table but bottom the front of 2,000 spectators.
following season) and Corinthian continued with their The SAL was set up into two eight-team sections,
challenge matches, famously beating Manchester Casuals in section A, Cheshunt in section B with
United 11-3 in 1904 which is still their heaviest-ever promotion and relegation between the two. Casuals
defeat. would finish mid-table in section A for virtually
But even this wasn't as it seemed. United put out every one of their seven seasons whilst Cheshunt
basically a reserve side that day, as many of the always hovered around the bottom of theirs so the
Corinthians professional opponents were doing by then two clubs never met in a league game.
as their league and cup fixtures were taking priority over However, the AFA had come twenty years too late.
'friendly' games as they now saw them.The situation It very quickly became an oddity in football, with its
came to a head in 1906 when the Amateurs on the FA member clubs not missed by the greater world of
Council tried - and failed - to block professional clubs football. Its games became stale and unattractive.
entering the Amateur-dominated County FA's of Reports of late kick-offs, missing players and
London, Surrey and Middlesex. miniscule attendances abounded. Working class
A few months later, in a final stand of defiance against Amateur clubs such as Leytonstone, staying in the
the professionals, the Casuals along with the Old FA, as did the Armed forces sides.
Etonians, the Old Carthusians, the Civil Service and the For Cheshunt, the only significant AFA club in
Crouch End Vampires, formed a breakaway movement, Hertfordshire, it was little short of disastrous. Local
the Amateur Football Defence Association (AFDA) to rivals Hoddesdon and Ware stayed in the FA and
protect themselves from the total destruction of their so we were denied these attractive fixtures, but
world by the professionals. With the support of even worse was the appearance of a new club in
Corinthians, they became the Amateur Football the area, Waltham Glendale. Based in Waltham
Association and set up mirror FA's (or AFA's) in London, Cross, they soon began to draw support away from
Surrey, Middlesex, Essex, Kent, Suffolk and, a year Cheshunt by reaching the Herts Senior Cup final in
later, Hertfordshire - to which Cheshunt were their 1909 and then winning it in 1911.
biggest member club. It was Corinthians who suffered the worst though.
The Football Association acted quickly against this rival Now unable to tour the land playing their high-
body, banning any of its member clubs from playing profile challenge matches against the professionals
against sides from the AFA and so for the next seven - and show them the superiority of the Amateur -
years, the two bodies existed alongside each other. The they were reduced to playing other AFA sides in
AFA boasted 40,000 registered players and, expanded painful mis-matches.
into Cambridgeshire and Sussex and soon formed the
Southern Amateur League (SAL), which Casuals and
Cheshunt were both founder members,
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Tuite
iA 15-1 win over Ipswich Town in 1910 (yes, that's Whether this was a good thing or not is open to
right - Ipswich never turned professional until debate as it was the AFA's influence that would
1937!) define how England saw 'Amateurs' and see the
It was typical of their fixtures. Even Corinthians decline in the Great Britain Olympic side and
much celebrated tours to South America, South eventually the abandonment of the Amateur Cup
Africa and the United States at this time are all just in 1974.
to escape the FA ban which, following joining FIFA
in 1906, meant the ban applied to all FIFA After the Great War, Corinthian began entering the
members too. FA Cup, regularly reaching the 3rd round stage
Applications to tour Holland and Germany were and being involved in several memorable ties
turned down so the more exotic destinations like against professional clubs.
Brazil (who did not join FIFA until 1923) were
actually not so much spreading the gospel of The Casuals would leave the SFA, rejoining the
Amateur football as the history books like to say Isthmian league in 1919 and winning the Amateur
but more out of desperation for opposition! cup twice before merging with Corinthian to form
todays opponents in 1939.
In 1914 the two sides reconciled. The AFA bowed
to the inevitable and affiliated itself the the FA once And Cheshunt? THey joined the Athenian league
more. As a consolation, the AFA took a seat on the in 1919, finished bottom and resigned. They
FA Council (as did Oxford and Cambridge rejoined the SFA, winning section B in 1920 but
Universities and the public schools) and also got to rather than take promotion, they joined the
sit on the International committee too - a situation Athenian league again where they would stay until
that would go on for many years to come. they folded ten years later.
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ONE COMMUNITY. ONE CLUB AMBERSTony Madden, the Amber Scribe is back from an
away day in Folkestone & has his say on TV Football
Commentary with 'The Big Match Revisited'
There’s a generation of us who grew up In fact in some ways it made the views of
almost solely on a diet of TV highlights of the fans all the more engaging as
football! The only games covered live on speculation was really fun and we got far
TV were the FA Cup Final, The European more genuine surprises on the back page
Cup Final and the England v Scotland of the Daily Mirror than we ever get now.
game! For generations we had had Brian
Every four years we would have a feast of Moore doing London matches, Gerald
live World Cup games but apart from Sinstadt doing North West matches, and
those it was always highlights. Ten to Hugh Johns doing the Midland games. All
fifteen minutes of a main match and then had their own style as well.
a few minutes of two or three support Brian Moore in the 60’s and 70’s used go
games. We were living on starvation completely berserk at any goal, so much
so that you worried he might fall off the
rations in comparison with the modern
gantry in his excitement.
equivalents but we knew no better so we
Hugh Johns was great fun, probably more
delighted in Match of the Day, The Big
detailed than some but if a match was
Match or if allowed to stay up we had
boring he couldn’t hide his frustration
weeknight Cup highlights on Sportsnight
often sounding as though he was reading
with Coleman! Interestingly though we
last week’s shopping list!
were still able to converse about the
We weren’t drip fed football like we are
game,
now; we coveted every scrap of football
We still had opinions and discussions
on offer.
about who did what and who were what The lunchtime shows like On The Ball
and we we’re still able to call Leeds dirty, and Football Focus were hugely followed
Arsenal boring, Man United rubbish and to and often your choice of pre match pub
say Spurs were entertaining but lacked was dependant on the pub having a TV
something or that West Ham had the West which showed the programme loud
Ham way but it often got slaughtered! enough so as you could hear the bit you
wanted, or the pub would be shushed to
Not being force fed a diet of daily news on order so as we could hear the pearls of
every club, seeing every goal, not knowing wisdom of Bob Wilson or the Saint and
the details of every transfer didn’t mean Greavsey.
we weren’t informed.
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06It was such a simpler world to watch the presenting the show are just fantastic
game in and in some ways I think we still memories of a time long gone. A time when
need to remember that we can enjoy the players were just ordinary people who were
sport without it being smashed down our good footballers and who might just turn up
throats 24/7. Younger fans would be really for a post-match pint with the fans! Imagine
surprised to know that we didn’t have the that today Harry Kane nipping into the Dog
chance to watch every goal the day after a and Duck with Dele Ali in tow for a pint of
game. shandy and bag of pork scratching’s! The
The cameras only picked four or five games whole spectacle of televised football back
a weekend and that was it. If Reading drew then was amateur in comparison to today
away with Preston in League Three it was but it was such a wholesome one. Music
very unlikely to have been covered and as had Top of the Pops and Pete Murray
such the only memory of the game would whilst football had highlights with Brian
be in your head if you’d actually been at the Moore and Jimmy Hill. What could be more
game. Football at our lower league level is wholesome! Don’t get me wrong I’m not
slowly starting to change in that respect. suggesting that live football is bad and
There are games televised and there is TV should be got rid of but I do question
evidence of goals at some levels and whether we may have gone into saturation
although it’s always nice to see a goal mode and that by acknowledging that
replay or a controversial incident reviewed I concept we maybe might consider
do slightly worry we are removing all sometimes less might be more; and if so
aspects of just watching the game and then we may not be too wide of the mark
accepting it for what it is. for lots of fans. I find it quite odd that I can
It would unfortunately seem that the turn on the TV and watch the entire league
introduction of VAR is the outcome of slow programme of French football and yet can’t
motion replays being introduced by Jimmy see highlights of a Cheshunt v Enfield
Hill back in the 1960’s! I wonder if he’d be match. It seems to make two assumptions
pleased. firstly that we want to see French football
The BT sports channels still from time to and secondly that we are not interested in
time re-run the old Big Match shows and I local and lower leagues? I’m not sure if that
absolutely love watching the production of was put to the watching public you’d get
these. The simplicity and innocence of the much agreement for that. A return to some
shows are fantastic and the lack of more localised highlights might not be such
attention to the importance of players is a terrible idea and just think we might
great. Lou Macari being interviewed with a produce the next Hugh Johns or Elton
tin of light ale in his hand in the players bar Wellsby.
at the Dell, Now who wouldn’t want that!
Mick Channon being interviewed in the bath Until next time enjoy the games, freeze
at Stamford Bridge and players like Kevin frame the goals and don’t miss Match of
Keegan wearing silly Elton John glasses the Day!
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06Corinthian-Casuals FC
Hidden away in the suburbs of south-west London is
They also took football round the world, touring in
King George’s Field, home to one of the most South Africa, Canada, the United States, South
significant clubs in the history of world football: America and across Europe, including Hungary,
Corinthian-Casuals. Czechoslovakia, Spain, Denmark and Germany.
Today Corinthian-Casuals are the leading amateur The Corinthians’ most obvious stamp on modern
club in English football, plying their trade in the football is a legacy of their 1910 tour of Brazil,
otherwise semi-professional Isthmian League during which their performances so impressed
Premier Division – the seventh tier of English the locals in Sao Paulo that they formed their own
football. club of the same name. Corinthians Paulista went
Yet they can lay claim to a heritage as impressive as on to become one of the best-supported and
almost any team in the land. The club in its modern most successful clubs in Brazilian football,
winning the World Club Championship as
guise was formed in 1939 as the result of a merger
recently as 2012, when they defeated Chelsea in
between two grand old amateur clubs, Corinthian FC
the final.
and Casuals FC, and it was the first of those famous
A further to trip to Brazil was aborted upon the
teams that are often credited with popularising team’s arrival in 1914, owing to the outbreak of
football around the world. the First World War. After hearing the news, the
The Corinthians were founded in 1882, specifically players made the decision to return home
with the England national team in mind. The FA suits immediately.
were tired of seeing Scotland get the better of their Devastatingly, more than 100 former players of
team and, after noting that many of the Scottish the Corinthians and the Casuals lost their lives in
internationals were taken from one particular side, the war. In 1939, the Corinthians merged with
Queens Park, they set about starting a team that Casuals FC to form Corinthian-Casuals, wearing
could act as a launching pad for the England national the pink-and-chocolate shirts of the Casuals, who
side. had their own proud history.
They were a strong force in the early amateur
In September 1882, an administrator called Nicholas
game, runners up in the first FA Amateur Cup
Lane Jackson, known as ‘Pa’ to his players, gathered
Final in 1894, founder members of the Isthmian
the best footballers in his contacts book in a small
League in 1905, first holders of the A.F.A Senior
room on the third floor of Number 28 Paternoster Cup in 1907 and winners of the Amateur Cup in
Row, under gaslight in the shadow of St Pauls 1936.
cathedral. The newly merged Corinthian-Casuals reached
The plan worked: it wasn’t long before England were the FA Amateur Cup final in 1956, with England
handing out trouncings to Scotland on a regular cricket star Micky Stewart among their number,
basis. In fact, in those early days the Corinthians but after drawing at Wembley were defeated by
provided the entire England XI for two international Bishop Auckland in a replay at Middlesbrough.
matches, in 1894 and 1895. They reached the semi-final the following year,
Yet they stood for much more than that. In 1884, the but after this high point, the club slipped into a
first-ever black international footballer – Scotland full- long decline, a rare moment of success seeing
back Andrew Watson – chose to represent the them reach the FA Cup first round in 1965/66,
where Watford won 5-1.
Corinthians when he moved to England. There were
characters everywhere you looked at the club in
those days. The team’s captain during the late
Victorian period was Charles Wreford-Brown, a
charismatic centre-half who is often credited with
having coined the term “soccer” when he used it as
an abbreviation of “association football”.
The Corinthian team didn’t believe in professionalism
or in entering league and cup competitions, but they
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often played the FA Cup winners in a forerunner ofCorinthian-Casuals FC
Some Amazing Facts About Corinthian-Casuals:
• Corinthians were founded in 1882 by the
Football Association to develop a club capable of
defeating Scotland. In essence, Corinthians were the
first England team.
• Between 1883 and 1890, 52 of the 88 caps
awarded against Scotland went to Corinthian players.
In fact, in 1894 and 1895, Corinthians fielded the full
England side twice… the only club to ever manage
this feat.
1988 was a truly historic year, as the club returned
• However, Corinthian’s greatest contribution
to Brazil, where they faced a Corinthians legends
to the game was their missionary work; touring
side featuring Brazilian greats Rivellino and
overseas across Europe, South Africa, USA, Canada
Socrates.
and South America.
Indeed, Socrates played for both sides, pulling on
• It was on a tour to Brazil in 1910 which
the pink-and-brown of the Casuals midway through
inspired locals to found their own team in Corinthian’s
the second half, in a moment that has gone down in
honour… that club has since gone on to be the largest
Corinthian folklore.
in South America and the only team to win the FIFA
The new Millennium brought plenty more historic
World Club Championship twice (defeating Chelsea in
adventures for the Corinthian-Casuals. They visited
2011).
Brazil again in 2001 and, in 2007, were invited to
• Corinthians were the English club to field
play at the newly reopened Wembley Stadium to
the first ever Black International player.
celebrate 125 years of Corinthian football.
• The Corinthians were so good, they
Then, in 2015, they finally played the Corinthians
regularly defeated league and FA Cup winning
Paulista first team for the only time in the two clubs’
opponents. In fact, in 1904, they defeated Manchester
history. 30,000 people turned up for the momentous
United 11-3 – their heaviest defeat to this day. The
occasion in the Corinthians Arena after the English
centenary of that match was played in 2004 with
amateur side had been greeted at Sao Paulo airport
United claiming a 3-1 victory.
by crowds of singing supporters. The game ended 3-
• In 1939, Corinthians merged with another
0 to the Brazilian side, but there was great
famous club, Casuals to become the club that, to this
excitement when Jamie Byatt swapped jerseys with
day, resides in Tolworth, Surrey.
Corinthians captain Danilo and played the last few
• Corinthian-Casuals are the only club to be
minutes of the game in the white and black jersey of
honoured with a Royal Coat of Arms.
our Paulista brothers.
• Corinthian-Casuals are the highest ranked
It was a symbol of the rejuvenation of the Corinthian-
fully amateur team in Senior football. We maintain our
Casuals, who have gone from strength to strength in
original ethos of fair play and good sportsmanship
recent years under the leadership of inspiring
across all levels of football.
manager James Bracken.
• Corinthian-Casuals has nearly 150,000
In 2018, after two years of pushing, they achieved
enthusiastic and avid Facebook followers – the highest
promotion to the Isthmian Premier – the highest level
following of any non-league club in the UK and more
the club has reached – and retained their status
than many Football League clubs.text
despite being the only amateur team at that level of
English football.
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