Tony Hannan is a respected author and currently editor-at-large of the rugby league magazine Forty20. Among his other books are Being Eddie Waring, Tries and Prejudice - the story of England's first Muslim rugby international, Ikram Butt - and On Behalf of the Committee: A History of Northern Comedy. An ex-Press Association sports journalist, he is also a co-director of Scratching Shed, publisher of books on all aspects of northern English culture.
The inspirational tale of a group of part-time rugby league players punching above their weight and bringing pride to a Yorkshire mill town fallen on hard times.
