Tony Hannan

Tony Hannan has authored, edited and contributed to a number of books, his latest being The Wicket Men: The Last Rites of Minor Counties Cricket – a folk-fuelled summer with Cumberland CCC (July, 2020). His other titles include Underdogs: A Year in the Life of a Rugby League Town, shortlisted for 2018's Outstanding General Sports Book of the Year; Being Eddie Waring - the biography of the famous BBC TV sports commentator; 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 journalist, he is also a co-director of northern independents Scratching Shed Publishing Ltd and is the co-founder of monthly rugby league magazine Forty20.