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Underdog: Fifty Years of Trials and Triumphs with Football's Also-Rans

Underdog: Fifty Years of Trials and Triumphs with Football's Also-Rans

by TimQuelch (Author)

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    Hardcover 2011

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Synopsis

We Brits are suckers for plucky losers, or so we're told. But more than this, we love to see a heroic upset. In Underdog!, Tim Quelch calls upon a lifetime of watching struggling teams to show how post-war football's most improbable successes were achieved - all set against a beautifully painted backdrop of grinding lower-division hardship, and changing times. Tim has spent 50 years following teams through temporary slumps in fortune (such as Chelsea and Manchester City) and more permanent economic downturns (play up, Burnley and Preston!). During Tim's windows of fandom, Northampton Town and Leyton Orient punched briefly, yet triumphantly, well above their weight; while Hastings United remained almost entirely below the radar. Underdog! is a tale of unlikely successes and abject failures - the infrequent high points of Tim's football-supporting life leavened with inspirational stories of more celebrated giant killers, from Hereford United to the Crazy Gang.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 448
 Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
Published: 14 Oct 2011
ISBN 10: 1908051132
ISBN 13: 9781908051134

Media Reviews
This is a major work: it's both half a century of erudite, keenly observed social history and the intimately detailed log of a personal odyssey. I was captivated. It is dripping with authentic atmosphere. Quelch writes like a dream and he has an exquisite eye for detail. If he maintains this standard in the volumes which I trust will follow, then football literature is due to be immeasurably the richer. - Ivan Ponting, Backpass Magazine
Author Bio
Tim Quelch is the author of Bent Arms and Dodgy Wickets, the story of England's troubled reign as Test match kings during the fifties. Like Underdog!, it was written to raise funds for the Alzheimer's Society. A retired local government officer, Tim has also penned a number of books reflecting his oft-painful yet enduring love for Burnley FC.