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sam surbey19 Apr 2018 - 21:05
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Corinthian Casuals Preview


On Saturday we travel to the naughty boys of the league. Despite stating ‘The aims of the Club are to promote fair play and sportsmanship, to play competitive football at the highest level possible whilst remaining strictly amateur and retaining the ideals of the Corinthian and the Casuals Football Clubs’ they are the least respectful team in the division and as of 01/03/2018 were 67th out of 72 in the whole of the Bostik League in the Respect Table.

The Corinthian-Casuals Football Club was formed in 1939 following the merger of the two great amateur sides bearing those names. The clubs’ coat of arms is a double-headed lion grasping the flags of the two parent clubs: the blue and white of the Corinthians and the chocolate and pink of the Casuals. The Coat of Arms was granted to the Corinthian-Casuals in 1959 by the College of Arms in recognition of the club’s services to football. No other club, amateur or professional had been so honoured. Corinthian-Casuals joined the Isthmian League for the 1945/46 season. New ground-sharing rules created by the league saw the club unceremoniously thrown out in 1983/84. This coming after 65 years of continuous membership, and in spite of a 5th place finish, simply because the club's long nomadic history meant it shared a ground, thus did not have one of its own. In 1988 the club merged with Tolworth and took over their King George's Field, marking the first time the club had owned its own ground

Years were spent in the London Spartan League before moving over to the Combined Counties League for one season where their runners-up position earned them a return to the Isthmian League for the 1997/98 season. Various re-organisations of the league followed until the present structure for the 2006/07 season saw them join the Isthmian League South. In 2015/16 they were subject to a points deduction which cost them a play-off place but the following year they achieved their goal and finished fourth. They beat Greenwich Borough in the play-off semi before losing out in the final, 4-5 on penalties, to Dorking Wanderers. The three previous seasons they had finished 14th, 17th and 13th.

We have met 11 times in the Isthmian League, winning five (three times away) drawing once (away) and losing five times (once away). At Winch’s Field, back in January, Bay were 3-0 down at the break and despite pulling one back went on to lose 4-1.

Corinthian-Casuals started this season slowly, 12th after four games, but had moved up to 2nd after 10. Their form in the last 10 was looking promising with six consecutive victories, but two draws and two defeats in the last four has seen them fall back, letting a two-goal lead at Ramsgate last Saturday slip away for a draw. After Saturday they have a home visit from Guernsey and a trip to fellow play-off hopefuls Hythe Town in the last week of the campaign. They are currently fifth in the league, 7 places above Bay who are 21 points behind but have played one time more.

They are eighth in the Bostik South attendance table with an average of 191 (high 316, low 132). Our previous five visits to King George’s Field have seen a total of 785 attend (103, 87, 278, 151, 166), an average of 157. Corinthian-Casuals play at King George’s Field, Queen Mary Close, Hook Rise South, Tolworth, Surrey. KT6 7NA. 76.1 miles from Winch’s Field. Estimated journey time 1 hour 41 minutes.

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