Tim Quelch: 4 books
Stumps & Runs & Rock 'n' Roll
Sixty Years Beyond a Boundary
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Stumps & Runs & Rock 'n' Roll is Tim Quelch's sixty-year account of growing up and growing older with cricket, spanning the period between Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne in 1952 and the present day. Scandals and trends, unforgettable events and heroes come and go in English cricket just as...
Bent Arms & Dodgy Wickets
Englands Troubled Reign as Test Match Kings during the Fifties
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
When Andrew Strauss's team seized the world title in the summer of 2011 they finally recovered what had been lost at the Adelaide Oval in 1959. In 1953 England became the 'unofficial world champions'. Len Hutton's victory at the Oval in that coronation year heralded an apparently golden age in England's...
by Tim Quelch
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Tim Quelch has spent 50 years following various struggling football teams. Some experienced only temporary hardships, such as Chelsea and Manchester City. Some became more longstanding victims of changing economics, such as Burnley and Preston. Some punched briefly, yet triumphantly, well above their...
Never Had it So Good
Burnley's Incredible 1959/60 League Title Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Burnley's league title victory of 1960 remains one of the most remarkable feats in the history of English football, the club the smallest ever to win its premier title. Despite spending far less than other champions and drawing more modest crowds, Burnley beat the likes of Manchester United, Spurs and...