Pitch Publishing: 248 books
Newcastle United Cult Heroes
The Toons Greatest Icons
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Newcastle United Cult Heroes recounts the careers of 20 of the club's greatest icons, men who entertained, week in, week out and regularly set fans' pulses racing. Each individual biography analyses each player's career, and examines exactly each player was idolised and how they achieved cult status....
by David Potter
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Celtic are a club that is rich in Cult Heroes. The legends assembled here are not necessarily the best players to appear in green and white, but the ones who developed the most affinity with the Bhoys incredible support; who were deified and came to stand for something more than mere footballers. Celtic...
Stoke City Match of My Life
Sixteen Stars Relive Their Greatest Games
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Sixteen Stoke legends tell the stories behind their favourite games. Terry Conroy relives the moment his header opened the scoring in City's 1972 League Cup Final. Mark Stein remembers another Wembley win in the 1992 Autoglass Trophy. Denis Smith recalls when Stoke took on the best in Europe and came...
Sinner and Saint
The Inspirational Story of Martin Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Sinner and Saint is the inspirational story of Martin Murray, St Helens' flawed yet favourite son. A promising amateur teenage boxer, Murray was drawn into a life fuelled with drugs, alcohol and street fighting. By the age of 24, he had completed four jail sentences, one of them in a notorious Cypriot...
Mooresy - The Fighter's Fighter
My Autobiography - Jamie Moore
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Mooresy: The Fighter's Fighter is the life story of one of Britain's most-loved boxers. Not always an angelic teen and a product of the 'Salford Overspill', Jamie Moore was sucked into the slipstream of the thrill which came with car theft. At 15, his luck ran out after a helicopter police chase. Boxing...
More Than Argentina
The Biography of Ally MacLeod
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Generally remembered only as the manager of Scotland's national football team during the ill-fated trip to the 1978 World Cup, Ally MacLeod was a colourful character who in fact gave far more to the Scottish game. From Third Lanark to St Mirren, Blackburn Rovers, Hibernian and Ayr United, Ally was a...
Shadow of the Knight
Football's Life After Sir Alex Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Certain things in life are inevitable. Petrol prices will rise, summer follows spring and Sir Alex Ferguson will retire.Eventually. Where next for Manchester United once the club's legendary manager retires? Shadow Of The Knight, prepared ready for Ferguson's retirement, will look to the past for answers...
by Robin Jackman, Colin Bryden
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The autobiography of former Surrey and England cricketer Robin Jackman; now a highly-regarded international cricket commentator, working on South African television. Known as one of the top commentators in the world, his articulate story encounters virtually all the cricketing greats of the modern era...
The Iron Curtain
My Rugby Journey from League to Union
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Iron Curtain tells the story of rugby pioneer Phil Larder, the first coach to break through the hidden wall between rugby league and union. The journey starts with Phil's upbringing as a player, takes in the 80s rugby league revolution he sparked as national coaching director, and his jump across...
Sheffield United Match of My Life
Twelve Stars Relive Their Greatest Games
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Twelve legends of Sheffield United reflect on their most memorable games for the club. With contributions from Tony Currie, Keith Edwards, Brian Deane, Phil Jagielka and other names from the Blades' past, recalling promotion-clinching game and epic cup victories, Match of My Life is an evocative look...
Yorkshire CCC On This Day
History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Yorkshire CCC was officially formed on 8 January 1863. Ever since, and even before, that date there have been incidents, matches, controversies and characters that have made Yorkshire cricket famous around the world. All of the events that comprise the most successful cricket club in England have been...
The Sergio Torres Story
From the Brick Factory to Old Trafford
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The true-life story of an imagined Utopia - of willpower, sacrifice and joy, and of daring to dream. Imagine you're working in a brick factory in the Argentine city Mar del Plata, and a 22-year-old colleague tells you he's going to quit his job to become a professional footballer in Europe. Yeah, right....
by David Potter
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Newcastle United On This Day recounts, in diary form, major events and magic moments in the history of the Magpies. Such as the great triumphs of the 1900s when three league titles were won, the 1950s when three FA Cups were brought back to Tyneside and the heady European triumph of 1969. Less happy...
American Football's Forgotten Kings
The Rise and Fall of the London Monarchs
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
In 1991, their first year of existence, the London Monarchs won the first World Bowl title at Wembley; though just seven years later the team had folded and swiftly disappeared from the sporting public's consciousness. American Football's Forgotten Kings recounts the true story of the only professional...