Cuthbert ottaway biography of michael jordan

(by Michael Southwick, Soccerdata Publications 2009, pp67, Paperback £8, ISBN 978 1 905891 27 6, available from Tony Brown, 4 Adrian Close, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 6FL, 0115 973 6086, soccer@innotts.co.uk)

At first glance on a shelf in a bookshop the cricket enthusiast might not pick this book up unless they knew that Ottaway was an exceptional cricket player who appeared for a number of first-class teams including The Gentlemen, Kent, Middlesex and Oxford University and also featured in R.A.

Fitzgerald’s team that toured North America in 1872.
Ottaway was the first England football captain in the match against Scotland at the West of Scotland Cricket Club in Glasgow that same year, making a remarkable double for this sportsman, another of the Corinthian players of that era who could turn their hand successfully to virtually any sport.

There is very little written about football at this time