Mr Corinthian
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- ISBN 9781801504461
- Dimensions: 144 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jun 2023
- Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Mr Corinthian is the first-ever biography of Nicholas Lane ('Pa') Jackson, founding father of the famous Corinthian Football Club. This team of amateur gentlemen was a phenomenon in the game's early years. Achieving victories over FA Cup winners and league champions, their players twice comprised the whole England national team, while their overseas tours introduced the game to countries that would later become footballing superpowers. Jackson has been hailed as the architect, visionary and genius behind this celebrated club. But 'Pa', as he was affectionately known, was not what he seemed. An incorrigible self-publicist and social climber, he cultivated the appearance of a sophisticated English gentleman and a 'grand old man of sport'. For the last 100 years, his version of the Corinthian story, as told to club members, has been accepted as a faithful record of events - but it wasn't. Did the club's historians conspire to fabricate an undeserved reputation? This book is a search for the truth.
Llew Walker is a jazz historian and chairman of the youth section of the famous Corinthian Casuals. His research into the extraordinary history of the club and its players was used in the acclaimed 2018 documentary Brothers in Football. Llew is also the author of Andrew Watson, a Straggling Life: The Story of the World's First Black International Footballer, published by Pitch in 2021.
