The significance of the Corinthians Football Club, founded in 1882, has been widely acknowledged by historians of football and by sports historians generally. As a ‘super club’ comprising the best…

In the essays collected here, amateurism, both as ideology and practice, is subject to critical and unsentimental scrutiny, effectively challenging the dominant narrative of more conventional histories of British sport.

This volume explores different facets of the pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization: from the postwar years to the 21st-century.