Pitch Publishing: 248 books
Firsts, Lasts & Onlys: Rugby
A Truly Wonderful Collection of Rugby Trivia
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Firsts, Lasts & Onlys is a rugby fan's delight, chock-full of astonishing events, time-honoured anecdotes and distinctly unlikely facts. Beginning in 1823 with an event that probably didn't happen, the book charts the history of the sport to the present day. Did you know that Wasps were not included...
Arsenal Greatest Games
The Gunners' Fifty Finest Matches
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
From the thousands of matches ever played by Arsenal, stretching from a muddy field on the Isle of Dogs in the 19th century to the Premier League era and the pristine perfection of the Emirates Stadium, here are 50 of the club's most glorious, epochal and thrilling games of all! Expertly presented...
All Wickets Great and Small
In Search of Yorkshire's Grassroots Cricket
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Nowt stops for cricket in Yorkshire. Passion runs deep, beyond those in whites, to the groundsmen, tea ladies, scorers and umpires who embody the game. All Wickets Great and Small is a romp across the landscape of amateur cricket in Yorkshire during the summer of 2015. Author John Fuller looks at the...
66: The World Cup in Real Time
Relive the Finals as If They Were Happening Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
66: The World Cup in Real Time retells the story of the iconic 1966 World Cup finals as if they were happening today - in a complete and highly-readable format. Live newspaper-style reports of all the matches, alongside reaction, off-field news and gossip from all 16 nations, form the basis of this unique...
Retired
What Footballers Do When the Game's Up
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Almost half of professional footballers face the threat of bankruptcy within five years of their retirement. A third will be divorced less than a year after hanging up their boots. With little or no support from the game to which they gave their lives, many end up addicted, depressed, living with debilitating...
Dundee FC On This Day
History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Dundee FC On This Day is a journey, in diary form, through the history of the famous Dark Blues. All the major events are covered in detail to give the reader a feel for the ups and downs experienced by The Dee since its formation in 1893. With individual entries for every day, the book includes all...
The Team That Dared To Do
Tottenham Hotspur 1994/5
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Football isn't about winning trophies, it's about the unforgettable moments that create the stories handed down through generations. Never has that been truer than at Tottenham in 1994/95. In The Team That Dared To Do manager Gerry Francis reveals, for the first time, the diary entries he made in the...
Cardiff City Greatest Games
The Bluebirds' Fifty Finest Matches
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From the thousands of matches ever played by Cardiff City, stretching from the club's Victorian foundation to their grand Premier League entrance, here are 50 of the Bluebirds' most glorious, epochal and thrilling games of all! Expertly presented in evocative historical context, and described incident-by-incident...
by James Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
From the thousands of matches ever played by Aston Villa, stretching from the club's Victorian foundation across more than 140 years to the Premier League era, here are 50 of the club's most glorious, epochal and thrilling games of all! Expertly presented in evocative historical context, and described...
Journeymen
The Other Side of the Boxing Business, A New Perspective on the Noble Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Journeymen tells a story that is often purposely ignored - that of the modern-day boxers who lose for a living. Far from huge purses and pay-per-view hype, the book lays bare the reality of the boxing business and the way it works in small-hall venues countrywide. October 2013 saw the 100th and final...
Blues Insider
A Quarter of a Century with Birmingham City
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Blues Insider is an alternative history of Birmingham City; a fascinating personal collection of behind-the-scenes stories from the past 25 years - straight from the pen of a man who's been on the inside. A lifelong Bluenose for more than 60 years, author Keith Dixon has written about the club he loves...
Fearless Freddie
The Life and Times of Freddie Mills
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Fearless Freddie charts the career of pugilist Freddie Mills, who became the biggest name in British boxing, a television star in the 1950s only to commit apparent suicide in 1965. Freddie was a boxing superstar at a time when the country was still trying to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of the...
by Neil Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Duncan Ferguson. David Moyes. Paul McCartney. A father and a son. A passion for Everton. A passion for The Beatles. Blues & Beatles is the story of football and music across the generations. The story of how a young boy inherited those fascinations from his father - and would one day pass them...
The War of the White Roses
Yorkshire Cricket's Civil War, 1968-1986
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
In 1968 Yorkshire County Cricket Club was the dominant force in English cricket, yet by 1986 it had slid to become one of the game's also-rans. The War of the White Roses tells the story in full from a completely neutral perspective for the first time. With insight from inside the dressing room, committee...