Pitch Publishing: 248 books
by Douglas Beattie
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Why do football fans decide to support one club over another in cities where intense, deep-seated rivalries exist?What makes them choose: family ties, geography, politics, religion or perhaps race?'Rivals Game' author Douglas Beattie spent two years discovering what lies at the heart of Britain's greatest...
by David Clayton
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Manchester City On This Day chronicles, in diary form, the major events and unforgettable moments in the clubs history. With individual entries for each day of the year, and multiple listings for more historic days in the Blues life, it includes all the clubs major games, promotions, significant events...
by Spencer Austin
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Shortlisted for the Best New Writer Award at the 2010 British Sports Book Awards, I am the Gloryhunter traces Spencer Austin's incredible odyssey across the country as he sought the ultimate adrenalin junkie high of only supporting winning teams. Randomly picking an English football team to support at...
The Road to Nowhere
A Journey Through Boxing's Wastelands
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
In the era of boxing's pay-per-view superstars, Tris Dixon invested in a Greyhound bus pass and spent several months traversing America on a shoestring budget, tracking down fighters from yesteryear who had vanished from the limelight. Venturing from New York to Las Vegas and from Toronto to Miami, the...
Lennox Lewis
A Pugilistic History
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Skill, power, fitness, determination to succeed. Lennox Lewis had it all as a boxer, and sure enough the great British-born fighter achieved his aim of becoming heavyweight champion of the world - but his journey toward that goal was never straightforward. Lewis burst on to the scene winning super-heavyweight...
Dempsey and the Wild Bull
The Four Minute Fight of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
They still call it the most sensational fight ever for the world heavyweight championship, between champion Jack Dempsey and his hammer-fisted Argentine challenger, Luis Angel Firpo. Back in the Roaring Twenties, 85,000 packed into New York's Polo Grounds to see all three minutes fifty-seven seconds...
The Power and the Glory
Senna, Prost and F1's Golden Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Set amid the glamour and bravado of 1980s Formula 1, The Power and the Glory tells the story of a rivalry unsurpassed in motor-racing history. By the mid-80s Alain Prost had firmly established himself as leader of the F1 pack. Winning Grands Prix almost at will, the French ace radiated invincibility....
The Good Murungu?
A Cricket Tale of the Unexpected
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Former county cricketer and one-time England Test batsman Alan Butcher was looking for a new challenge after leaving his job coaching Surrey County Cricket Club. A phone call out of the blue from a Zimbabwean great alerted him to the possibility of coaching the nation's cricket team. His three years...
Odd Man Out
The Fascinating Story of Ron Saunders' Reign at Aston Villa
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Ron Saunders is the one manager in over a century to guide Aston Villa to English football's summit. The Odd Man Out is an exhaustive account of how he did so. How he took the Midlanders to promotion from the old Division Two in his first season. How he created and dismantled arguably the most exciting...
Spirit of '55
How Warrington Wolves Leapt Out of the Pack
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
In 2009, Warrington RLFC reached the nadir of their long-term, chronic underachievement, prompting one fan to write to the local newspaper questioning the players' commitment. He signed the letter 'Spirit of '55' - a reference to the year the club were last champions. Results began to improve dramatically,...
When Football Came Home
England, the English and Euro 96
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
When Football Came Home is the story of the 1996 European Championship played out in England, the centrepiece of a momentous and unforgettable summer, Britain's second summer of love. In the space of a month the England team went from staggering out of a Hong Kong nightclub in disgrace to within a stud's...
Wolves Match of My Life
Twelve Stars Relive Their Greatest Games
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Twelve Wolves legends tell the stories behind their favourite games from their Molineux careers. The selected games include the 1949 and 1960 FA Cup and the 1974 and 1980 League Cup Finals, the famous floodlit friendlies against Honved and Real Madrid and tussles with local rivals West Bromich Albion....
Manchester United On This Day
History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Manchester United On This Day recounts, in diary form, the events that have shaped the history of one of the most famous clubs on the planet. From formation as Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway FC in 1878 to Sir Alex Ferguson's current Red Devils, Manchester United On This Day attempts to...
by Brian Beard
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Aston Villa On This Day recounts, in diary form, major events and magic moments in the history of the Villa Park club.From its foundation by the congregation of Handsworth's Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel in Victorian Birmingham to the ignominy of Third Division football Aston Villa has been a unique football...