Pitch Publishing imprint: 247 books

Bobby Brown

A Life in Football, From Goals to the Dugout

by Jack Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017

This is Bobby Brown's remarkable life in and out of football, highlighting his debut as Scottish manager in the famous Wembley win over world champions England in 1967. The book charts his progress from schoolboy playing for Queen's Park to Scottish international goalkeeper in wartime and after. Bobby's...

Edinburgh On This Day

History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year

by Ian Colquhoun
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

Edinburgh On This Day revisits all the most magical and memorable moments from the city's fascinating history, mixing in a maelstrom of quirky anecdotes and legendary characters to produce an irresistibly dippable Edinburgh diary - with an entry for every day of the year. From the important decisions...

From Oblivion to Hampden

Hibs Heroes of 1991

by Ian Colquhoun
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

From near-extinction to cup-final triumph, this is the story of the team which is remembered by Hibs fans as 'the team that would not die'. From Oblivion to Hampden is the tale of one of the most remarkable cup runs in Scottish football history, as Hibernian Football Club, having survived a hostile takeover...

Transplant Triathlete

The Story of How One Man Went from Illness to Ironman

by Diccon Driver
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

An ironman triathlon is seen as the hardest one-day endurance event in the world. Consisting of a 3.8km swim, a 180km bike ride, followed by a full marathon, it is a huge undertaking for anyone, never mind a rookie with chronic kidney disease. Transplant Triathlete is Diccon Driver's story: an amateur...

Five Trophies and a Funeral

The Building and Rebuilding of Durham County Cricket Club

by Stuart Rayner
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019

Five Trophies and a Funeral: The Building and Rebuilding of Durham County Cricket Club is the story of how English cricket's youngest first-class county quickly became the country's top team, before overstretching themselves financially to the brink of extinction. When Durham joined the professional...

From Ronnie Radford to Roger Osborne

When the FA Cup Really Mattered Part 2

by Matthew Eastley
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 for Wembley and the biggest clubs of the day saw the FA Cup as a 'must-have' trophy. The 1970s was a fantastic decade for the world's greatest domestic competition, encompassing...

Pulp Football

An Amazing Anthology of True Football Stories You Simply Couldn’t Make Up

by Nick Szczepanik
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016

Football is about goals, great players and glory. But it's also about own goals, goats and the game gone wrong. Pulp Football looks at the comedy rather than the beauty of the world's favourite sport, the farce not the force: the incompetent coaches, the 30-yard thunderbolt that ends up in the wrong...

Six Stickers

A Journey to Complete an Old Sticker Album

by Adam Carroll-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013

For years, Adam Carroll-Smith has bragged about his Premier League '96 sticker album. The only sticker book he ever completed: a special childhood achievement which helped cement his love for football. After nearly two decades gathering dust in the loft, leafing through the album he discovers a small...

Four Hundred Words at Five-Thirty with 'Nannies'

Inside the Lost World of Sports Journalism

by Peter Bills
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015

Peter Bills has spent the past 40 years writing about rugby for newspapers in Britain and around the world. He now shares his extraordinary experiences from a career blessed with an indecent amount of fun, unleashing a barrage of anecdotes and lifting the lid on the hidden world of sportswriting - on...
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