Pitch Publishing imprint: 247 books
Eibar the Brave
The Extraordinary Rise of La Liga's Smallest Team
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Sociedad Deportiva Eibar is the Basque side from a passionate football town one-third the size of the Camp Nou. Eibar the Brave tells the amazing Cinderella story of La Liga's smallest club, which has seen Barcelona and Real Madrid playing top-tier football at Ipurua, the 5000-capacity stadium that Eibar...
Mud Sweat and Shears
Tales from the Turf - Life as a Football league Groundsman
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Mud, Sweat and Shears is the story of Roy Oldfield - groundsman at Burnley FC through the 1970s and 1980s. It tells of how he went from miner to parks and recreation man and eventually became one of football's most-respected turf men. On the pitch he saw more bad times than good, but his offer to 'Av...
Hammer Blows
An Alternate Take on Twelve Turbulent Years at West Ham United
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
The past dozen years have provided an unprecedented rollercoaster ride for West Ham United, both on and off the pitch. Since 2001, the Hammers have recruited six managers, had four different owners, played in three winner-takes-all play-off finals, enjoyed two promotions (having endured two relegations)...
Queens Park Rangers Greatest Games
The Hoops' Fifty Finest Matches
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
From the thousands of matches ever played by QPR, stretching from their Victorian foundation to the Premier League era, here are 50 of the club's most glorious, epic and thrilling games of all! Expertly presented in evocative historical context, and described incident-by-incident in atmospheric detail,...
Coventry City: A Club Without a Home
The Fight Behind the Sky Blues' Return From Exile
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Coventry City fans had plenty to be happy about in the late 1990s. They had been a top-flight side for more than three decades, and they were graced with a team of glittering international stars such as Robbie Keane, Gary McAllister and Mustapha Hadji. The future appeared bright with the promise of a...
Judas?
The Story of Paul Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
If you're from Hull you're either black and white or red and white. No ifs, no buts. Judas is the story of Paul Cooke, a gifted rugby league player who enjoyed glory at Hull FC on the west side of the city's rugby league divide - but caused outrage when he walked out of the club to join bitter rivals...
Shankly's Village
The Extraordinary Life and Times of Glenbuck and its Famous Sons
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Glenbuck is a name that resonates through the history of football in Britain. Once a tiny village in the Ayrshire coalfields, it produced an unprecedented roll call of professional players. Its most famous son, Bill Shankly, shaped not just Liverpool's destiny but exerted a huge influence on the evolution...
Red Letter Days
Fourteen Dramatic Events That Shook Arsenal Football Club
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
i>Red Letter Days dissects the myths and conjecture which surround Arsenal's epoch-defining moments, including key matches and tactical revolutions, and casts fresh light on the impact of important figures in the club's history. Matches under the spotlight include the 1930 'Zeppelin Final', the decisive...
A Tale of Two Seasons
The Fall and Rise of Heart of Midlothian
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
A Tale of Two Seasons provides a fan's eye view of two of the most momentous seasons in Hearts' 140-year history, covering unthinkable calamity and ultimate salvation. Perilously close to extinction after their Lithuanian owners became insolvent, the book relives Heart of Midlothian's year in administration,...
A Flick of the Fingers
The Chequered Life and Career of Jack Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Thanks to his discovery of a collection of scrapbooks and memorabilia, writer and filmmaker Michael Burns is able to relate for the first time the remarkable story of Surrey and England cricketer Jack Crawford. A schoolboy prodigy who took Edwardian cricket by storm, the amateur all-rounder became Surrey's...
In the Shadow of Packer
England’s Winter Tour of Pakistan and New Zealand 1977/78
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
On the back of winning the Ashes in the summer of 1977, England headed off on a gruelling and punishing four-month winter tour of Pakistan and New Zealand - the first without the MCC moniker. Events prior to that tour were to have a massive impact on the world of cricket with Kerry Packer having announced,...
When England Ruled the World
1966-1970: Four Years Which Shaped the Modern Game
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The 1966 World Cup triumph put England at the pinnacle of the game. But how did it help the English game to develop, both at international and club level? Did it help the game to develop at all? When England Ruled the World charts the progress of our national and club sides through the four-year period...
by Ewan Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The Wizards FC was a team of former schoolfriends who - with the help of a few star ringers - slogged their way through mud, skinheads and Staffordshire bull terriers to win the Edmonton Sunday League. Team captain Ewan Flynn brings alive a world of young men giving it their all on sloping pitches a...
From Barry Stobart to Neil Young
When the FA Cup Really Mattered Part 1
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
There was a time, not so long ago, when the FA Cup really mattered. When fans would go to extraordinary lengths to get tickets, and the whole nation seemed to stop for a football match - when Cup Final day seemingly threw up unlikely dramas every year. From Barry Stobart to Neil Young articulates this...