Guy Shuttleworth, the last surviving member of Corinthian-Casuals Amateur Cup Final side of 1956, has died at the age of 94.

Guy was born on 6th November 1926 at Revidge, Blackburn in Lancashire. He went to Queen Elizabeth’s G.S. in Blackburn then on to King’s College, Cambridge, where he played three seasons for the University.

In December 1945 he played his first game for Cambridge in a 1 – 1 draw. In 1946 he was right half in a 3 – 2 win. It was the first Varsity match to be televised by the BBC with JRB Moulsdale, a former Corinthian, as commentator. In 1947 Guy Shuttleworth captained Cambridge to a 2 – 0 win at Dulwich.

In 1948 Shuttleworth, along with Doug Insole and Derek Abbott, played for the English Universities X1 against Southern Universities. In 1949 he also won an England Amateur cap in the 3 – 1 win against Wales at Llanelli.

In 1948/9 he was captain of Pegasus, the Combined Oxford and Cambridge side, in the club’s first season.

On 9 October 1948 he made his debut for Corinthian-Casuals at right half in an Isthmian League match against Wimbledon. On 4th October 1949 he captained a Corinthian XI against an FA XI in the first match at the Oval for 56 years.

On 7th February 1953 he played for Corinthian-Casuals in the much remembered 3rd Round FA Amateur Cup match again Pegasus in front of a 12,000 crowd. Pegasus won 1 – 0. A live issue was the rivalry between the hosts and Pegasus to attract players from Oxford and Cambridge.

In the 1956 Amateur Cup Final he played right half in the famous I – I draw at Wembley against Bishop Auckland in front of 80,000. He also played in the replay at Middlesbrough which Bishop Auckland won 4 – 1.

On 9th May 1967 at Dulwich Hamlet, the club organised a match between the Cor-Cas ‘56 and the Bishop Auckland ‘56 team. Eight of the Cup Final team at Wembley took part, including Guy, who travelled down from York. The other three players - Gerry Alexander (residing in Jamaica), John Sanders (deceased), Gerry Citron (who was no longer a club member) - were replaced by John Dutchman, Jimmy Platt, and Dave Palmer.

Cor-Cas ‘1956 won the match by 4 goals to 1, thus reversing the Amateur Cup Final result at Middlesbrough. Dutchman (a hat trick) and Insole scored the goals. This was Guy’s last match for the club.

Altogether he played 244 First Team games for Corinthian-Casuals, scoring 9 goals. He also went on 6 tours from the Channel Islands to Libya.

Club President Micky Stewart who played with him during some of those years remembers Guy as “a very good marker, more defensive that attacking, and a 100% hard worker”.

At Cambridge, Guy also won cricket blues for three years as a middle order batsman and excellent fielder at cover point. He scored 244 runs in his 25 matches, with a best score of 96 against Sussex at Hove, sharing a 6th wicker partnership of 171 runs with his captain, Doug Insole. He played Minor County cricket for Lancashire’s 2nd XI during for those years, 1946, 1947 and 1948.

He taught for most of his life, first at Mill Hill School until 1957, then at St Peter’s School, York until he retired. At both schools he coached cricket and, perhaps surprisingly, rugby. He died at Eastbourne in Sussex on 20th January. The club would like to send all our sympathy and support to his wife Tanya and to his two children.

A post script: Guy’s grandson Ben Chilwell, son of his daughter, plays professional football for Chelsea and was first capped by England in 2018.

By David Harrison

Norman “Flash” Kerruish, sportsman, mathematician and university lecturer has died aged 92. He was one of Corinthian-Casuals’ most distinguished players in the 1950’s. In the F.A. Amateur Cup Final against Bishop Auckland in 1956 in front of 80,000 spectators at Wembley he was credited with getting the last touch for the Casuals’ goal in the 1 – 1 draw, heading in a corner from cricketer Doug Insole. In the semi-final against Dulwich at Stamford Bridge he’d scored a hat trick.

He was born on 15 Jan 1928 in Hindley, just outside Wigan, His father William was the manager of the local Co-op insurance. His mother Mabel was a seamstress. Norman won a scholarship to the local grammar school where he was outstanding at sport and maths. At 17 he won another scholarship, this one to St Johns College, Cambridge, a young student among veterans returning from the war. He won blues for football against Oxford in 1945 and 1947. In the second game, won 2 – 0 by Cambridge, he scored the second goal. He went on to play nine games for the newly formed Oxford and Cambridge side, Pegasus, in their first two seasons in 1948/9 and 1949/50.

Graduating with a First in Maths he was invited to join the engineering firm British Thompson Houston, in Rugby, as an engineering mathematician and spent much of his time teaching maths to engineering graduates at the local technical college.

In April 1950, aged 22, he played his first game for Corinthian-Casuals against Sutton United. Over the next eight seasons, soon nicknamed “Flash” because of his speed, he averaged over 30 games a season making a total of 257 appearances and scoring 104 goals. Micky Stewart, now club President and another of Casuals’ cricketers – he was captain of Surrey and manager of England - remembers playing inside left with “Flash” on the left wing in the 1955/56 team. “Norman was right footed. He would often cut inside to get the ball on his stronger foot. That’s how he scored a lot of his goals”. At the Oval in December ‘55 he scored four goals in the 7 - 2 defeat of Barking. He also played and representative football for the Isthmian League and the London F.A. and later some games with his local club Rugby Town F.C.

In 1950 Norman had also married his childhood sweet Marion and they had two children. He took the train every Saturday from their home in Rugby to play for Casuals despite suffering from travel sickness on virtually every trip. During this period he attracted interest from two Football League clubs, Spurs and Aston Villa, but didn’t take them up. The maximum wage, of course, was only £20 a week. As the Rugby Advertiser reported, “That wasn’t a viable option for Norman with a young family.”

At the age of 30 he decided to retire from senior football, inspiring a nostalgic note in the Corinthian-Casuals’ Newsletter: “Norman is still a fine player and we very much hope he may change his mind about wrapping up. We base our hopes on several factors. Marion (his wife) is bound to get fed up with having him home all day. Flash himself may miss the abuse from behind the goal. We don’t know, but we can hope”.

Career

But Norman had a serious career away from football. In 1965 he left his job with British Thomson Houston when he was appointed Reader in Engineering Mathematics at what became Aston University in Birmingham. Commuting daily from Rugby he taught Maths over a 20 year period to both undergraduates and postgraduates and supervised PhD students. He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and also Fellow of the Institute of Maths.

Soon after the death of his wife Marion in 1980, Norman took early retirement, but was still very active, playing golf and squash to a high standard. Daughter Alison remembers him playing three times in the British over 55s section of the British Open Squash Championship. including winning a match against the great Hashim Khan, eight times British Open Champion. At golf, with a handicap of 4, he was club captain and a regular competition winner at Rugby Golf Club. He played for and captained the mid Warwickshire League team and won the Warwickshire foursomes in 1978.

Although not in the best of health in recent years, with doubtful knees after so much contact sport, “Flash” still got around at high speed on his wheeled zimmer. He had a special 90th birthday celebration with son David and daughter Alison, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. He died peacefully on 15 May with son David at his side. Among the tributes grandson Jamie wrote: “His accomplishments sound like a work of fiction really.” Another on-line tribute read: “He was a charming and self-effacing chap, who hid his academic and sporting prowess to build open friendships with all around him”. At Corinthian-Casuals we remember him with great affection, a long time member of the club and a man whose prowess on the field and intellectually was certainly anything but flash.