Five Trophies and a Funeral

The Rise and Fall of Durham County Cricket Club

Stuart Rayner

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785315152
• Year: 2019

Five Trophies and a Funeral examines how a cricketing fairy tale became a cautionary story for sports clubs, and asks 'what next?' for Durham CCC. It features interviews with the men who made the journey from first-class new boys to the brink of extinction via a spell as the country's top team - and those now planning to restore past glories.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword by Paul Collingwood
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Upgrading to First Class
• Cooking Up a Team
• A Good Scriptwriter
• Nice Stadium, Shame About the Team
• The Production Line
• Boon Then Bust?
• Outside Influences
• Full Steam Ahead
• Playing the Numbers Game
• ‘We Didn’t Want That Journey to End’
• Unbeatable
• Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
• Climbing the Mountain
• Life’s a Breese
• Failing the Tests
• ‘We Just Can’t Keep on Pushing Water Uphill’
• The Wider Wake
• Minus 48
• One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
• Recreating the Magic
• Select Bibliography
• Photos