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07.10.2023 - 19:57 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Unsung Mancunian footballing heroes finally got the recognition they deserve this week after a plaque was unveiled for Manchester Corinthians.
The Corinthians, which started out in 1949, were a women’s football team that were hugely successful, playing as the unofficial England side in a European Cup and World Cup — winning both. The team trained at Fog Lane Park in Didsbury.
For much of their existence, women’s football was banned, in effect, as female teams were prevented from playing on Football League grounds, or pitches owned by clubs affiliated to the FA. The 50-year-long prohibition was only lifted in 1971.
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That did not stop the Corinthians, however, who played to crowds of more than 60,000 on their trips abroad. They would play as the unofficial England side, and won a major European tournament in Germany in the late 1950s, and were supported on their travels by legendary Manchester City men’s goalkeeper Bert Trautmann.
They went one better in 1960, winning the first ‘Torneo Internacional De Futbol Femenino’ — or unofficial World Cup, held in Venezuela. “Playing in front of 56,000 was thrilling and the way women’s football was treated was so different to how it was back in England at the time,” recalled outside right Margaret Whitworth. “Here we had to play on park pitches or at other sports grounds, but there we played in major football stadiums.
Another of the stars of the Corinthians teams who saw success was Anne Grimes, from Audenshaw. She was their goalkeeper from 1956-63.
The 85-year-old was at the plaque unveiling, telling attendees that her and her teammates ‘just wanted to play
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