Rushden
and Diamonds: A Footballing History, by Ian Addis and Mick Dean (1998)
THIS is a history of the fortunes of a club who their present form have been in existence for little more than a decade.
But the origins of the Northamptonshire club go back far longer than that - the original Rushden Town were formed in 1889, and Irthlingborough Diamonds began in 1946, and the two would eventually merge.