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2014-08-05 13:17:36

International inspirationThough they professed to prize fair  play over winning, Corinthians invariably combined the two and this was also key to the club's establishment in 1882. Jackson was at that time assistant secretary of the Football Association, and it was his concern at the results of England's national team that led him to form a club team. “Corinthians were founded mainly because Jackson and some of his contemporaries were utterly despondent at England's performances against Scotland in the ten years after the first international game in 1872, ” historian Dr Dil Porter, of De Montford University, explained in a BBC documentary. “

Scotland were completely dominant in those games, and Jackson thought the reason for this was that the Scottish team was largely made up of players from the same amateur club, Queens Park. He thought if he could bring together the best English gentlemen amateur footballers together in a club side so they could play together more frequently, like Queens Park, they would stand a much better chance in games against Scotland. ”England did indeed improve, and over 100 Corinthians players went on to earn senior caps. In one particular match away to Wales in 1894, the entire Three Lions team was made up of players from the London club, and they returned home with a 5 1 win. Corinthians' association with the national team lasted all the way until in 1937, in fact, when Bernard Joy became the last amateur to be capped by England.

Just two years later, however, the club in its original form disappeared when it amalgamated with the Casuals to form Corinthian Casuals Football Club. What followed was a steady descent down the divisions, and a consequent fading from public view. These days, Corinthian Casuals compete in the Isthmian League, a minor regional league for clubs from London and the south east of England. And though the club retains its amateur  status, practices such as deliberately missing penalties and ‘sending off' its own players have long since been abandoned.

 

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