Abdullah Abdullah

Alistair Aird

Anonymous

Chris Adams

Chris Akers

Daniel Abrahams

David Armstrong

Derek Air

Derek Air has been playing the game of Subbuteo on and off for fifty years. A former school teacher, he has written a number of articles on German football for the fanzine Halb Vier and produced four series of the podcast Finger Flickin’ Good in which he chronicled the stories of the Subbuteo community both in the UK and further afield. Land of the Giants is his first non-fiction book. A proud Scot, he lives in the Black Country.

Geoff Andrews

Ivan Ambrosio

Ivan Ambrosio was born in Gragnano (NA), in Italy, in 1993, and grew up in a small town. At 19, he left school and moved to London with a one-way ticket. In England, he realised most of his dreams, including visiting more than 320 football stadiums and watching more than 250 live games. In 2023, he graduated from St Mary’s University in London, and is now a professional football coach. His motto? Never give up and follow your dreams – always!

James Adams

James Adams is a lifelong Coventry City supporter and author whose work explores the intersection of sport, identity and psychology. His first book, Passionate! A Whole-life Memoir, was published in 2021. He has spent 35 years teaching in secondary education in West Yorkshire, including two decades as head of social sciences, and continues to work in a local sixth form. His interests include creative psychology, United States politics and popular music.

Jimmy Anderson

Jo Araf

John Aizlewood

Before You Go is John Aizlewood’s fifth book. Previously the author of Love Is The Drug, Playing At Home, Decades: Joy Division + New Order and Radiohead: Life In A Glasshouse, John has written about sport for more than 20 years for the nation’s most prestigious newspapers. He currently writes for a host of publications including The Times/Sunday Times, Daily/Sunday Telegraph, the i paper, Radio Times, Mojo and Classic Rock.

John Anderson

Jonathan Allsopp

Jonathan Allsopp is a founder-member and co-owner of FC United, and is the author of two books about the club: The Red Thread and It’ll all be over by Christmas. He has also written for numerous publications and websites including The Guardian, openDemocracy, the Manchester Mill and United We Stand. Away from football, Jonathan is an accountant who has worked as a finance manager in the NHS for more than 30 years.

Jonathon Aspey

Jonathon Aspey has written for These Football Times on numerous topics including Liverpool FC. He worked with Sports Interactive to write articles for their website on the Football Manager video game series. Jonathon also runs his own blog, The Tactical Annals. Spice Up Your Life: Liverpool, the 90s and Roy Evans is his first published book.

Leo Ackerman

Leo Ackerman and Alex Urwin both played for Mickey Lewis, as captains of the Oxford University ‘Blues’. Leo has since gone on to work in documentary filmmaking and political campaigning, and helped to build a school in Switzerland. Alex has written for the president of the UN Climate Change Conference, the UK prime minister and the likes of Foreign Policy, the Atlantic Council and Climate Home.

Marvin Andrews

Marvin Andrews has collaborated with David Mason to tell his life story. As official historian of Rangers FC since 1986, David is the author of several books, including the club’s 150th anniversary edition of The Official Rangers Story, Mr Struth: The Boss, Rangers: The Managers, A Match to Remember and The Penalty King. He has also written regular features for the club’s matchday programme.

Matt Anson

Matt Appleby

Matthew Appleby

Matthew Appleby has written for Cricinfo, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, Sky, NZPA and many newspapers and magazines. He is the author of six books including New Zealand Test Cricket Captains and Durham Cricket: 100 Greats.

Michael Arnold

Nick Atkinson

Paul Armstrong

Pete Attaway

Sam Allardyce

Shareef Abdallah

Shareef Abdallah is a football writer and blogger. He has supported Liverpool since 1981 and visits Anfield every season. He has watched more than 100 club games, at home, away and in Europe. His blog, Red Glories, is filled with stories and pictures of famous games, goals, victories and defeats from football’s golden age of the 1980s and 90s. You can follow him on Twitter @brazilegend10.

Shaul Adar

Simone Abitante

Viv Anderson

Alan Butcher

Alex Bysouth

Alex Bysouth has been a journalist at BBC Sport since 2016, where he regularly writes about European football and has seen his work shortlisted for a prestigious AIPS Award. Raised on a diet of Football Italia and Revista de la Liga, he has always been intrigued by the continental game and enjoys exploring this through his writing about football culture, history and travel.

Andy Bargh

Andy Bargh’s biggest passion is the Scotland national team. Growing up without seeing his side at a major tournament, he became obsessed with Scotland’s attempts to reach one. He works as a football commentator for BBC Scotland, commentated on Scotland in the European Championship and in his spare time hosts the Hampden Roar Scotland podcast, featuring exclusive interviews with former players and panel-based debate episodes.

Andy Bollen

Andy Bollen is an author, comedy writer and drummer. He has written five books including A History of Scottish Football in 100 Objects, Fierce Genius: Cruyff’s Year at Feyenoord and A History of European Football in 100 Objects. He has written comedy for BBC TV and radio for three decades. He also writes for football periodical Nutmeg, The Set Pieces, The Guardian, the Sunday Mail, Glasgow Herald, Scotland on Sunday and New York Times.

Anthony Broxton

Ashwin Ballal

Asif Burhan

Asif Burhan is a football journalist whose work has appeared in leading international publications. Having attended World Cups as a supporter, blogger and reporter, he became an accredited journalist at the 2018 final. His long-standing fascination with Argentina v England 1986 has taken him from the Estadio Azteca to Mexico City archives and Sotheby’s auction rooms. Known for his forensic research and deep love of football history, he combines investigative detail with accessible storytelling to illuminate the human and cultural forces behind the game’s most iconic moments.

Ben Bloom

Bence Bocsák

Bill Bradshaw

Bob Bond

Bob Bond is an experienced book illustrator and cartoonist, long since retired. He drew sports cartoons for many years for various comics, magazines and periodicals. Born in Lancashire at the start of the war, Bob moved south 40 years ago. He still follows Preston North End from afar, in the vain hope that one day he will see them play their first match in the Premier League.

Brian Barwick

Brian Barwick OBE is well known in broadcasting and sport. He worked for BBC Sport for 18 years, was Match of the Day editor and lead editor on the BBC’s coverage of World Cups, Olympic Games and Sports Personality of the Year awards. He left the BBC as its head of sport in 1997 and spent seven years at ITV. As chief executive of the FA, he worked with three England managers, opened the new Wembley Stadium and launched the Respect campaign.

Brian Beard

Chris Bishop

Chris Bishop worked as a journalist for 43 years and started out in Worcestershire where his family has lived since the 16th century. He has watched and written about non-league football since the day his father and grandfather took him to watch Stourbridge vs Kidderminster Harriers in September 1970. He has loved the game and followed the fortunes of north Worcestershire clubs ever since.

Christopher Beesley

Christopher Beesley has 25 years’ experience in sports journalism. As Everton reporter for Merseyside’s most-read news outlet, the Liverpool Echo, he covers the Toffees’ matches, plus every other element of the club, both on and off the pitch. He lives in the seaside resort of New Brighton, which affords him enviable views across the Mersey of Liverpool’s world-famous skyline that (for now) takes in three past or present Everton grounds.

Clive Batty

Clive Batty is the author of more than 20 football books, including The England Compendium, The Little Book of England and 1966, The 50th Anniversary. His work has featured in the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and FourFourTwo among other publications. He first saw England play live in 1973, a disappointing 1-0 friendly defeat to Italy at Wembley.

Colin Brown

Colin Brown, who is from Saltley in Birmingham, is a third generation Aston Villa supporter, his grandfather having watched the club in the 1880s. Colin first saw his team play in 1957 and has been a season-ticket holder for many years. For the past decade he has been a regular contributor to the street sale and online fanzine Heroes and Villains. The Armistice Day Killing is his first published book.

Craig Birch

Damiano Benzoni

Damiano Benzoni is an Italian sportswriter and photographer based in Como. He is a contributor to The Blizzard and When Saturday Comes, and worked as a video host and producer for OneFootball in Berlin. An avid football fan, his allegiances are split between Como, AS Roma and Hertha BSC.

Dan Botten

Dan Botten is the author of Ipswich Town Miscellany and Ipswich Town On This Day. Dan has followed Ipswich for more than 20 years and has written about them for numerous publications including Observer Sport Monthly, The Irish Times, Shoot! and World Soccer – also contributing interviews to the Ipswich Town: Singing The Blues CD.

Dave Bennett

Dave Bowler

Dave Bracegirdle

David Bailey

David Battersby

David Beckett

David Bellingham

David Bernstein

David Broome

Dev Bajwa

A law graduate with several years’ experience in sports digital media and the freelance non-league football scene, Dev Bajwa has written for outlets such as Stretty News and Caught Offside. The Conquerors is Dev’s second book following his 2020 tome The Football Spider Web: How the ‘Beautiful Game’ has Evolved.

Gavin Bell

George Boxall

George Boxall is an English football journalist based in Marseille, where he covers Olympique de Marseille and the wider French game. His work has appeared in BBC Sport, The Guardian, Ligue1.com and Get French Football News. Since moving to France in 2019, he has developed a particular focus on supporter culture and the social context of football, writing extensively on clubs such as Red Star FC. He first arrived in Marseille in 2023 while following Brighton & Hove Albion in Europe, before returning to report on OM during the Roberto De Zerbi era.

Graham Barlow

Grant Bage

Grant Bage has written football fanzines and academic textbooks. He plays and watches football, is an Honorary Fellow of The Historical Association and has a history PhD. His latest book, The Unseen Sir Alf: A Different Kind of Hero, draws on five years’ intensive research. Grant’s professional expertise as a manager, researcher and writer, plus his experiences as a fan, make him the perfect person to write this book.

Harry Berry

A Blackburn Rovers fan of more than 70 years, Harry Berry was commissioned to write the club’s centenary history in 1975. Since then he has published other books on Blackburn. For the last two years he has published statistical work on the club via his Twitter account. A former marathon runner, he wrote an account of the Trans-Continental Footraces of 1927 and 1928, which gained a cult following among ultra-distance aficionados.

Ivan Butler

James Bennett

James Bennett has been writing about football since 2009. He was part of the writing and editorial team at Sandals for Goalposts, one of the leading websites covering African and Asian football, and has written for Metro, Unibet and Prostate Cancer UK. He is based in South Wales and is a fan of Torquay United. This is his first book.

James Brown

Jenny Baker

Jim Brown

Jimmy Burns

Joe Batchelor

Joe Brewin

John Blair

John Blair is a football enthusiast who has collected shirts for 30 years. He is an active member of the classic football shirt community under his handle @collarupkits – showcasing his 500-plus strong shirt collection. Football Kit Italia: The Greatest Kits and Characters of the Golazzo Era follows his debut book, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year-nominated A Culture of Kits: The Definitive Guide to Classic Shirt Collecting.

John Bleasdale

John Boland

John Broom

Dr John Broom has written books about many aspects of 20th-century warfare and culture, including Cricket in the First and Second World Wars. Dr Anthony Condon is an Australian historian. He is interested in how culture and society perform to create identities. He has published scholarly work on cricket in the mid-19th century and commentates on cricket for White Line Wireless and Guerrilla Cricket.

John Buultjens

Jon Berry

Jonathan Baker

Jonny Brick

Jonny Brick is the author of This Place: A Diary, which chronicles a year in the life of a fictional MP, as well as football books Banternalysis and From Kids to Champions: The History of the FA Youth Cup. Sixty Years of Hurt brings together his interests in football and politics.

Keith Baker

Kirk Blows

Liam Bullock

Marcus Buckland

Roger Taylor has collaborated with TV and radio sports broadcaster Marcus Buckland to tell his story. After starting his career at the BBC, Marcus moved to Sky Sports and hosted more than 500 football matches before becoming their main tennis presenter for 12 years. In 2019, he joined Prime Video to continue covering tennis and Premier League football. Marcus also works as a radio host and can be heard regularly on talkSPORT.

Mark Biram

Mark Bishop

Martin Brodetsky

Matt Bozeat

Matthew Bazell

Max Bonnell

Michael Burns

Mihir Bose

Mike Bayly

Neil Back

Neil Barker

Nicholas Bishop

Nick Brown

Theo ten Caat has teamed up with Nick Brown to tell his story. Nick was born and bred in London and has written for local newspapers in the area. Despite his somewhat southerly location, he has followed Aberdeen FC since the early 1980s and is the author of Former Glories and New Beginnings (also by Pitch), the story of the Dons’ glory days and a day-by-day chronicle of their 2022/23 season.

Paul Banke

Paul Berry

Paul Berry has more than 20 years’ experience in football media, both as a journalist covering Wolves for many years for the Birmingham Mail and within the club itself, spending almost a decade working for the media department at Molineux.

Paul Bishop

Paul Brand

Paul Brand has been a West Ham fan since the age of six. Some of the hopes, highs and heartbreaks of merely following the team are documented in his previous book, Fortune’s Always Hiding: From Stratford to Seville (2023).

Peter Beeby

Peter Bills

Peter Buckley

Philip Bird

Philip Brown

Richard Blanchflower

Richard Buxton

Rob Blackburne

Rob Blackburne is a performance coach trusted by professional footballers across the Premier League, Championship and beyond. After coming through Chelsea’s youth system and playing non-league football, Rob discovered that the real battles were in the mind. His approach is different, with the focus firmly on lived experience and practical tools. Rob has helped hundreds of players transform their performances on the pitch and their lives off it.

Rob Burnett

Rob Burnett grew up in the Falkland Islands, which lacked a thriving go-kart scene, so he was unable to develop into the star driver he would doubtless have become. Instead he turned to journalism and now earns a living writing about Formula One.

Rodrigo Barneschi

Rodrigo Barneschi is a Brazilian journalist who has been to more than 1,100 football matches in almost 100 stadiums around the world. Besides being a member of an organised group of Palmeiras fans, Barneschi conducts research on the behaviour of the torcidas in South America. He has written dozens of articles for top-tier magazines and newspapers, always focussing on what goes on in football grounds.

Ronny Blaschke

Ryan Baldi

Sam Bradley-Green

Sam Bradley-Green is a Bolton Wanderers season-ticket holder of more than 26 years, a regular on Bolton podcast Trotter Chatter, a historian and an assistant head teacher. His experience in academia, plus personal connections that have given him the inside scoop on some of the biggest names to ever pull on a Bolton shirt, make him perfectly placed to recount his own and others’ memories of the club.

Scott Burns

Scyld Berry

Scyld started as The Observer’s cricket correspondent in 1977 and is currently the chief cricket writer of the Telegraph. He has covered almost 500 Test matches, more than anyone except the late Richie Benaud. As well as the SJA’s Cricket Journalist of the Year award in 2018, he has won several cricket book of the year awards and was editor of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack for four years. He still plays club cricket and for Gloucestershire Seniors.

Shekhar Bhatia

Simon Binns

Simon Binns is a journalist who has also worked in the football industry and co-authored The State of the Game for Birkbeck College. When he reconnected to long-lost family in Paris a decade ago, he also went searching for the one thing that always made him feel part of something bigger – a football stadium. He found Red Star and an incredible array of characters, remarkable stories and faith in the game he thought was lost forever.

Stephen Barr

Originally from Liverpool, raised in Ghana and Zambia in Africa, and now based in Northern Virginia, Stephen Barr is a retired telecommunications professional with a passion for boxing history. Inspired by his grandfather, 1930s featherweight fighter Dick Burke, Steve has spent years researching pre-war Liverpool boxing and supports the historic Everton Red Triangle Boxing Club.

Stephen Brandt

Stephen Byrne

Steven Bell

Stuart Bolton

Thomas Blow

Tim Brooks

Tim Brooks is an experienced cricket writer and novelist who has written for publications such as Wisden, The Nightwatchman and The Cricketer. He has also commentated on a range of global tournaments. The author of books on European cricket and a global history of the sport, his first novel was the critically acclaimed The Batmaker of Copenhagen, also published by Pitch.

Tom Barclay

Tom Brogan

Tony Banks

In a 35-year career on national newspapers, Tony Banks wrote about football for the Press Association, Today, The Sun, Daily Express, Daily Star and Daily Mirror. He saw his first Fulham match in 1973, and covered the club intimately throughout the Al-Fayed era. He was London football correspondent on the Daily Express, and covered World Cups, European Championships and Champions League finals.

Wayne Barton

Adam Carroll-Smith

Alan Clements

Alan Clements was born just over half a mile from Elm Park, and was a Reading season-ticket holder between 1993 and 2010. He has a passion for sporting statistics and records, and his hometown club. He is still a fan and continues to follow Reading avidly, albeit from afar. He lives on the Isle of Wight with his wife Anne-Marie and his two daughters, Jeanie and Philomena. This is his first book.

Alex Cassidy

Alex Crook

Andrew Cotter

Anthony Condon

Anthony Crolla

Ben Cook

Ben Cook is a journalist and editor who has written for The Guardian. He has been employed as an editor at publishing companies based in London, Madrid, Paris and Milan. He has also worked as a copywriter for Oxford University Press. A lifelong Fulham fan, he has also written for the fanzine There’s Only One F in Fulham. He has previously lived in the USA and Canada. He now lives in Oxford.

Benjamin Calder-Smith

Benjamin Chatfield

Chris Carra

Cyril Collot

Dave Cocker

David Clayton

David Cuffley

Edward Couzens-Lake

Gareth Cartman

Gareth Cartman is a cycling writer and historian. We Rode All Night is his fourth book following We Rode All Day, Walko and Koblet & Kubler. He has also contributed to The Road Book cycling almanac as an essayist. He lives in Maidenhead, where he struggles over the foothills of the Chilterns on a regular basis. You will also find his name on the wall of the Ronde van Vlaanderen Museum, if you look hard enough.

Gareth Copley

Gareth Copley-Jones has spent the past two decades documenting the highs and lows of England’s Test cricket team worldwide, earning him the Sports Journalists’ Association Photographer of the Year award and a prestigious World Press Photo award. Rory Dollard is the cricket correspondent at PA Media. He has followed England across the globe in Test, ODI and T20 cricket, and is a trusted storyteller across print, broadcast and digital media.

Gary Cowen

Gary Cowen has been a Hearts fan since birth and has been writing about Hearts’ history and memorabilia for more than 20 years in the Hearts matchday programme and for Nutmeg magazine, Planet Hearts and his self-published Hearts history magazine, eighteen74. He is a member of the Hearts archive group and helped to set up the Hearts museum. He sits on the board of the Foundation of Hearts. This is his first football book.

Hamish Carton

Hamish Carton is the face of one of the largest Celtic fan media outlets: the 67 Hail Hail YouTube channel. He has been a season-ticket holder at Celtic Park for most of his life, and has worked for the likes of the Press Association, various Johnstone Press titles and the CelticLIVE app. His work with 67 Hail Hail has made him one of the most respected voices on Celtic, as well as giving him a front-row seat for the Ange Postecoglou revolution.

Hollie Cradduck

Ian Collis

During a career devoted to campaigning for both built and natural heritage, Ian Collis wrote many publications for charities, local authorities and heritage organisations. Now retired, he has combined his passion for writing with a fascination with the interaction between people and places, past and present, to create this book.

Ian Colquhoun

Ian Crocker

Isaac Callan

Isaac Callan is a print and broadcast journalist and lifelong Hibernian fan. After covering political stories and features, he now brings a narrative non-fiction lens to Scottish football. Isaac grew up in Edinburgh with a season ticket for Easter Road. He has experienced the pain of some of Hibernian’s toughest lows and the thrill of the team’s most exhilarating highs.

James Cave

James Cook

Jane Couch

John Conteh

Jon Chattman

Jonathan Campion

Karl Coppack

Kyle Conway

Kyle Conway lives on the south coast with his wife, two children and two dogs. He is a keen rugby union and boxing fan. He played rugby for Portsmouth, boxed out of Leigh Park Havant and ran ultra marathons. In 2022, he received a devastating diagnosis that put a stop to the boxing and ultra marathon career.

Luca Caioli

Luca Caioli is one of the world’s leading football authors. Born in Milan in 1958, he has written numerous bestselling biographies and novels that have been translated into more than 40 languages and have sold over a million copies worldwide. During a journalistic career spanning more than 30 years, he has covered the biggest events in world football and worked for leading media organisations including Il Manifesto, La Repubblica, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Euronews, RAI, Granada TV, Sky TG24, Marca and Corriere della Sera. He lives in Madrid.

Cyril Collot is a journalist and author specialising in sport. Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon in 1973, he has co-authored around 30 sports books and has collaborated with Luca Caioli on many internationally successful football biographies since the 2010s. He began his career with Le Progrès before working for Euronews and OLTV, the official television channel of Olympique Lyonnais. He is the founder of the digital content company Le Chat Qui Dort Production and is also a commentator for Ligue Sport-Boules M1 broadcasts on Sport en France and L’Équipe Live.

Luke Chadwick

During a 15-year career, Luke Chadwick played for Manchester United, Royal Antwerp, Reading, Burnley, West Ham United, Stoke City, Norwich City, MK Dons and Cambridge United, and won 13 caps for the England under-21s. He is now a director of The Football Fun Factory.

Mark Church

Martin Calladine

Martin Cloake

Martin da Cruz

Martin da Cruz is a football historian and writer, and the author of From Beauty to Duty: A Footballing History of Uruguay, 1878–1917. He has contributed to The Blizzard and is a founding member of the Uruguayan Football Historians and Researchers Association (AHIFU).

Marvin Close

Matt Coughlan

Tired of interfering managers rewriting his reports at work, Matt started writing about the one subject no one could profess to have more expertise in, his own experience of watching football. The result is Turncoat, Matt’s debut book.

Matthew Caldwell

Matthew Caldwell set up the Instagram account @1_shilling to share the story of forgotten football programme designs with the world. He is a co-founder of Monday Nights design practice, a cross-discipline design studio specialising in brand identity across multiple sectors including sports and entertainment.

Michael Calvin

Michael Clifford

Lifelong West Ham fan Mick Clifford first visited Upton Park in the 1970s with his father. Fascinated with the club’s colours, he commenced a lifelong journey collecting the famous claret and blue shirts. He vividly recalls visiting his local sports shop in Finchley, North London, with his mother to buy his first shirt on his tenth birthday. This started him on his collecting quest, which has to date garnered almost 1,000 West Ham shirts.

Mike Chadwick

Neil Clack

Nick Collins

Paul Challen

Paul Collier

Paul Cooke

R M Clark

R M Clark is a first-time author with a special interest in football, people and places. He grew up in the Midlands, where he failed his English A-Level with a ferocious and complete incompetence. He now lives in Manchester, and has embarked on a journey of redemption.

Rich Chamberlain

Rich Chamberlain’s first trip to watch his beloved Coventry City was in the inaugural Premier League season. He witnessed a dire 2-0 defeat to Wimbledon. Amazingly, this failed to put him off a life following the Sky Blues. Away from football, Rich is a former freelance journalist who has interviewed stars as diverse as rap royalty Ice-T, rock hell-raisers Mötley Crüe, pop songstress Sheryl Crow and football icon Jimmy Hill.

Richard Chamberlain

Rich Chamberlain’s first trip to watch his beloved Coventry City was in the inaugural Premier League season. He witnessed a dire 2-0 defeat to Wimbledon. Amazingly, this failed to put him off a life following the Sky Blues. He has written two previous books about Coventry City, When The Sky Was Blue and Benno: Dave Bennett’s Life In Football.

Richard Clarke

Richard Crooks

Rick Cowdery

Rob Carless

Rob Clark

Roy Calley

Former BBC journalist Roy Calley first saw Jimmy Armfield play for Blackpool in 1967, not knowing then that he would share the commentary box with him many years later. Although no longer living in the town, he has followed the roller-coaster fortunes of the club ever since. He has written books on various topics, including motor-racing and Mary, Queen of Scots. This book is a tribute to a man he admired and considered a friend.

Ryan Conway

Ryan Conway has covered Derby County extensively since August 2019, first with The Athletic and later for the Derby Telegraph and through his own platform, Conway Conversations. Ryan has also appeared on Football Focus, BBC Radio Derby and Canal+ to discuss the Rams. He was named on the Football Blacklist’s Ones to Watch list 2020. Pride Before the Fall is Ryan’s debut book.

Ryan Crombie

Ryan Crombie is a sportswriter with experience at a leading UK sports magazine, and is the founder of Red Point of View, a widely followed Aberdeen FC blog and platform. His work has led to podcast appearances, media interviews and contributions across Scottish football coverage. A lifelong Dons supporter, a passion handed down from his dad and grandad, he brings a unique blend of fan perspective and journalistic storytelling to his work.

Simon Cambers

Simon Cambers is a British tennis journalist and broadcaster who has covered the ATP and WTA Tours for 25 years. He writes regularly for The Guardian, New York Times, ESPN and Glasgow Herald. Simon Graf is a Swiss tennis journalist and the author of a best-selling 2018 Roger Federer biography. He writes for Zurich-based newspaper Tages-Anzeiger and has followed Federer around the world for the last 22 years.

Simon Carter

Simon Cooper

Stephen Crabtree

Steve Cotton

Terry Conroy

Adam Darke

Adrian Durham

Alan Dein

Alan Dein is an oral historian, writer and radio broadcaster, and is a lifelong collector of footballing ephemera.

Alan Dunne

Alex Daley

Ali Donnelly

Andrew Dalton

Andrew Dalton has been a life long Leeds United fan. A regular on BBC Radio Leeds in the 1990s and early 2000s, and later Radio Yorkshire, he also appeared on the Live and Kicking football quiz and finished third. Andrew has co-authored All White: One Hundred Greatest Leeds United Players of All Time and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and wrote An Official History of Leeds United. He can be found on X @lufcstats. 

Ben Dobson

Bob Doran

Brian Dobbs

Carrie Dunn

Chris Davies

Chris Deeley

David Dew

Dion Dublin

Fabio Da Silva

Filipe d’Avillez

Gareth Dace

Gareth Davis

Graham Dench

The editor Graham Dench was a senior reporter for the Racing Post and form book editor for Raceform, a well-established results publication that was an invaluable tool to racing enthusiasts and bettors. Graham has worked in journalism for many years and has edited the popular and essential Horses in Training since 2021.

Graham Denton

As well as moonlighting as a successful children’s poet and anthologist, Graham Denton is an author whose writing on football has appeared in various publications from his primary school’s annual booklet to the Guardian. He first saw Aston Villa play in April 1973, in the old Football League Division Two. Less than a decade later they were champions of Europe. The story of what happened in between he has waited over 35 years to tell.

Harry De Cosemo

Ian Danter

Ian Danter was born in Warwick in 1968 and raised in Solihull, inheriting a love of sport from his father, Bill, a former Warwickshire cricketer. At talkSPORT, he has presented shows across every weekday and weekend slot and has commentated on football World Cup finals, ICC Champions Trophy finals and the PDC World Championship Darts at Alexandra Palace. He is also a passionate musician and lifelong Birmingham City fan.

Ian Davidson

Jack Davidson

Jack Davies

The Making of the FIFA World Cup is Jack Davies’s debut book. A keen Everton fan, Jack has previously worked as a journalist based in Merseyside and York. He now works for Channel 4 Television.

James Dixon

James Driver-Fisher

Jason Dickinson

Jason Dozzell

Jason Dozzell has collaborated with Stuart Watson to write his life story. Stuart has been the chief football writer at the East Anglian Daily Times, covering Ipswich Town home and away, since 2011. He has been shortlisted for Sports Journalist of the Year at the 2024 Regional Press Awards. This is his first published book.

John Dillon

John Dyson

Jon Driscoll

Jon Driscoll is the author of The 50: Football’s Most Influential Players, a history of the game through a series of pithy biographies. Jon is a football commentator with 25 years’ experience in TV and radio. He writes for When Saturday Comes and Football Espana. He has worked for Sky Sports, BBC Radio 5 Live, talkSPORT, Eurosport and UEFA and presents the La Liga Weekly podcast. Jon is an FA-licensed coach.

Julian Dicks

Keith Deller

Keith Dixon

Lauren Davies

Marc Dawson

Mark Davies

Michael Dunne

Mick Duxbury

Mike Donovan

Neil Doherty

Neil Drysdale

Neil Dunkin

Paul Donnelley

Peter Donaldson

Peter Donaldson used to teach modern British history at the University of Kent. He is the author of five books, including And the Winner Is: 70 Years of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year and Sport, War and the British, which was shortlisted for the British Society of Sports History’s Lord Aberdare Literary Prize. He has yet to be knighted for sport or nominated for SPOTY.

Philip Dawkes

Rafael Da Silva

Richard Denton

Robbie Dunne

Rocco Dean

Rory Dollard

Sahil Dutta

Sascha Duerkop

Stephen Done

Steve Dennis

Steve Dennis is an experienced racing writer having worked for the Racing Post for many years, and he is a regular contributor to our other Racing Post titles, including the ever-popular Annual. He is also the published author of the book Sergeant Cecil: The Official Story and this is his second title.

Steve Deponeo

Steve Dolman

Terry Dyson

Tony Dell

Tris Dixon

Will Dalton

Ben Evans

Ben Evans is a lifelong motor sport enthusiast who braved hypothermia and sunburn to witness first-hand many of the incidents in the book. A former driver, commentator and magazine contributor, he spent more than 15 years immersed in the paddock before focusing on books. Super Touring is his second book, following 2022’s Legend of the Formula Ford Festival.

Chris Evans

Christopher Evans

Clive Everton

Dean Eldredge

Dean is the author of three books including The Death of Rugby by Neil Back (named as Rugby World Magazine Book of the Month for October and as one of The Observer Sports Books of the Year in 2015) and The Road to Persia by Darius Vassell. Dean worked as Communications Consultant to Leicester City Football Club and is a football agent and co-owner of Oporto Sports Management and Forum Sports Management.

Gail Emms

Gail Emms MBE is a retired English badminton player with international success. First chosen to represent England in 1995, Gail became a world champion and Olympic silver medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games with mixed badminton doubles partner Nathan Robertson. She retired from the sport in 2008. Since then, Gail has forged a successful media career, becoming a recurring presence on esteemed platforms such as Fighting Talk (BBC Radio 5 Live) and A Question of Sport (BBC One). She also focuses on motivational talks, hosting and event management with her own successful company.

Gary Edwards

This is Gary Edwards’ seventh book. He is a columnist for the Leeds United official matchday programme, and over the past 20 years has written countless articles for magazines and newspapers, as well as providing TV and radio interviews. His first two books were combined to produce a nationwide sell-out stage show documenting his life, featuring actors from TV and film. He lives with his wife Lesley and their dog Blue.

Matt Eastley

Matt Elliott

Matthew Evans

Matthew Evans is a freelance football writer who specialises in the history of the game. He has written extensively on all eras of the beautiful game for various online outlets as well as appearing on podcasts and in print for These Football Times and Nutmeg magazine. He is a huge fan of football nostalgia, and the 1994 World Cup remains a massive part of his education, having absorbed the tournament as a teenager.

Robert Endeacott

Robert Endeacott is a writer, screenwriter, novelist and ‘pretend’ artist. His novels include One Northern Soul, No More Heroes, Dirty Leeds, After Extra Time (Dirty Leeds Uncut), Disrepute: Revie’s England and The Gigante. Co-written factual works include Hunting The Hooligans, Leeds United – A Celebration Official Centenary Book, The Leeds United Collection, Peaches: A Chronicle of The Stranglers and the Les Cocker biography Cocker Hoop.

Tim Evershed

Adam Forster

Alan Ferguson

Alan Ferguson is a retired bank clerk living in Milan, Italy, with a love of sport and especially the beautiful game of football. He is a keen supporter of AC Milan and Manchester United … so is suffering greatly on both fronts at the time of writing!

Alan Fisher

Alec Fenn

Alex Ferguson

Alex Fynn

Andrew Fairley

Carsten Fog Hansen

Chris Fitzgerald

Author and journalist Christopher Fitzgerald was born in Manchester and raised in Rochdale. A lifelong supporter of the club, he has worked for the Press Association and several regional and national newspapers, and has covered Rochdale AFC extensively throughout his career. He has been nominated for Sports News Writer of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards. His previous books include The Rochdale Division and Into the Unknown.

David Fensome

Ewan Flynn

Ewan Flynn is a freelance football writer focusing on the game’s rich history. His work has featured in The Independent, The Blizzard, When Saturday Comes, FourFourTwo and on BBC Radio. His first book, We Are Sunday League, is a bitter-sweet real-life story from football’s grassroots. Born in Edmonton, north London, Ewan is a lifelong Spurs fan and attended his first game at White Hart Lane in 1989.

Gerry Ferrara

Gerry Francis

Jack Fawbert

James Fisher

A journalist with the Bridgnorth Journal and the Shropshire Star, James Driver-Fisher was brought up in Erdington, Birmingham, and has been an Aston Villa fan all his life. Having followed the highs and lows of the club for the past 25 years, he has developed an escalating fascination with Villa’s illustrious history. James now lives in Dudley.

John Fuller

Katie Field

Louis Foster

Lou Reed Foster is a writer from Liverpool, England. A season-ticket holder at Goodison Park since 1998, Lou’s debut book chronicles David Moyes’ tenure at the club between 2002 and 2013. Lou is the editor of football and culture publication Diego Magazine and a freelance writer for Vital Football Network’s Everton Team. He has written for many football magazines including Futbolista, Turnstiles Magazine, The Black Watch and WSAG.

Luke Fletcher

Millie Farrow

Millie Farrow is a professional footballer from England who has played for Chelsea, Bristol City, Reading, Leicester City and Crystal Palace, and is now on the books of the North Carolina Courage in the USA. Millie is a first-time author who wants to tell the story of her battles with injuries and major mental-health issues to help others overcome adversity.

Nathan Fogg

Neil Fitzsimon

Nigel Freestone

Paddy Fitzpatrick

Paul Fletcher

Paul Fletcher has teamed up with Dave Thomas to tell his story. Dave has written more than 30 football books, several of them published by Pitch. He is a former headmaster of a small village school near Leeds and has supported Burnley since the title season of 1959/60. He has also written for the Times Educational Supplement and various magazines.

Rob Fletcher

Rob Fletcher is a football writer with a passion for the 1990s. He is the creator and editor of Boro Mag, presents podcasts with These Football Times and has authored two books: 1992: The Birth of Modern Football and Chaos, Controversy and THAT Kung Fu Kick, which featured iconic moments from the 90s. The Final: In Pursuit of Greatness is his third book, combining scrupulous research, compelling storytelling and a deep love of the game.

Ryan Foley

Ryan Foley has been a professional writer and editor for close to three decades. He began his career as an award-winning sports editor and writer for newspapers across the New England area and later worked as a magazine editor before moving into public relations and marketing. He has also written extensively as a freelance music journalist, contributing to numerous alternative weekly publications in the United States. His first book, Manchester City: The Genuine Soap Opera Club, was published in 2023, followed by 1978: The Birth of Moneyed Modern Football, published by Pitch in 2025.

Stevie Fisher

Brough Scott has written and edited many books including Warrior, The Amazing Story Of A Real Warhorse and his most recent, Churchill at the Gallop, a unique new look at ‘The Most Famous Briton’. He edited but did not write this one. He still features on ITV Racing and writes for Sunday Times having started out with both operations 50 years ago following an earlier life as both an Oxford graduate and a professional jockey.

Tom Flight

Trevor Francis

Alan Gernon

Alexander Gross

Alexander Gross is a writer and historian living in London. He was born in Munich to an English mother and German father. He has a PhD in English Language and Literature and has written extensively about Shakespeare’s London. He is also the founder and editor of EiF Magazine, an independent periodical featuring top writers from around the world, with a focus on the socio-political and cultural contexts of football.

Andrew Gamble

Ashley Gray

Bobby George

Bobby George has teamed up with long-time friend Dave Bracegirdle to tell his story. Perhaps best known as a football reporter on Sky Sports’ Soccer Saturday and as a county cricket commentator for the BBC, Dave was delighted to commentate on Bobby’s matches in the ‘League of Legends’ for Setanta Sports in 2008. Dave’s previous Pitch releases are the autobiographies of cricketers Franklyn Stephenson and Luke Fletcher.

Brian Gardner

Christian Giudice

Emanuele Giulianelli

Gennaro Gattuso

Goldblatt

Hannah Grainger-Clemson

Hannah Grainger-Clemson is a sports fan, coach and amateur athlete with a social sciences doctorate from the University of Oxford. She has written journal articles and book chapters based on community projects and historical research, and has worked in social and cultural policy development across Europe.

Ian Gould

James Gardner

Jeff Goulding

Jim Green

Jim Green has written extensively on mental health, meditation and wellbeing. He is the author of Giving Up Without Giving Up: Meditation and Depressions (Bloomsbury, 2019) as well as self-help books (The Wellbeing GuideThe Recovery Book), and has created online mental-health content for the BBC, the Open University, Mind and Meditatio. Jim is also an award-winning poet with honours from BBC Proms, the George Crabbe Prize and Café Writers.

Jimmy Geoghegan

Liam O’Brien has teamed up with Jimmy Geoghegan to tell his story. Jimmy has been a journalist for more than 30 years and has been nominated for numerous awards for sportswriting and general features. This is his second book.

John Grant

John Grant (PhD) has written for numerous journals and magazines. This is his exploration of Liverpool FC and their first European Cup triumph. His initial ‘dad and lad’ Anfield experiences were attending Central League reserve matches in the early 1970s, eventually graduating to the Kop when Liverpool reigned supreme. John is a season-ticket holder in the Sir Kenny Dalglish stand, from where he watches his team among many good friends.

John Gunn

Johnny Greaves

Adam Darke is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with more than 25 years’ experience in the world of sports broadcasting. He has produced and directed more than 30 films and series for the likes of Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Discovery, Channel 4 and many more. Before that he worked for BBC radio, ITV, and then Sky Sports. Having made Cornered, a film about Johnny Greaves, in 2014, Adam now tells Johnny’s story in full in this powerful book.

Kieran Gill

Leon Gladwell

Leon Gladwell is the author of Beyond the Turnstiles and has written for Copa90, 11Freunde and Santos. His football photography has been exhibited in the UK and the Netherlands.

Lorne Gardner

Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon is a football writer from Aberdeen, Scotland. As well as being a lifelong supporter of his home-town team, he has had a passion for Italian football since watching the 1990 World Cup. He has written extensively on Italian, Scottish and English football – both the men’s and women’s games.

Mark Greenslade

Mark Greenslade is a leading open source software practitioner, a writer and keen cricketer. In 2000 he helped to organise a cricket tour to California, which revealed the transformative potential of cricket in America.

Michael Gallwey

Michael Gallwey is a history graduate and football writer. He has had work featured for These Football Times and Football Chronicle, as well as other publications and websites. He contributed to Iberia Chronicles, a collaborative exploration of Spanish and Portuguese football. Golden Generations is his first solo book.

Michael Garvey

Michael Gibbons

Nancy Gillen

Neville Gabie

Nicholas Godfrey

Nick Greenslade

Nick Greenslade is a former deputy sport editor of The Sunday Times. He was educated at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he read history. After a brief career in advertising, he began his career in journalism at The Nation magazine in New York and has also held editorial positions at The Observer and Daily Mail. He has contributed to the New Statesman, Time Out and Private Eye and In These Times in the US. He lives in Kent with his wife and three children.

Norman Giller

Olivier Giroud

Paul Grech

Paul Grech is a prolific author with several books under his belt. Among his notable works are two volumes of Il Re Calcio, which showcase fascinating stories from Italian football. He also wrote The Forgotten Genius of Italian Football, a biography that chronicles the life and career of Carlo Carcano, an early luminary in Italian football management. The book was translated into Italian in 2022.

Peter Gillatt

Raiford Guins

Raiford Guins is a Leeds United supporter. He was neither born in West Yorkshire nor England, but enjoys a complicated love affair with the club spanning nearly 40 years and two continents, not to mention sizable debt. He has a side hustle as Professor and Chair of Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and has authored numerous books on video games. Raiford also co-edits the Game Histories book series for MIT Press.

Robert Garner

Robert Gillan

Rod Gilmour

Sergio Gargelli

Simon Gilbert

Simon Graf

Steve Gibson

Adrian Hill

Alan Hester

Alan Hester is an internationally published author of books on leadership, success and confidence, including Management Starts With You (2017) and Get Out Of Your Own Way (2018). His books have been translated into Chinese, Arabic and Greek and sold by Hachette in the USA. Tiny Keeper, a labour of love about a boyhood idol based on interviews with other heroes, is his first sports book.

Andrew Hawes

Andrew Hignell

Andy Hall

Andy Hamilton

Andy Hamilton is one of the country’s top comedy writers and stand-ups, who has also written two novels. His credits include such TV comedy classics as Not the Nine O’Clock News and Alas Smith & Jones and, with Guy Jenkin, Drop the Dead Donkey and Outnumbered. He also wrote the football comedy Eleven Men Against Eleven and regularly appears on the long-running hit BBC show Have I Got News for You.

Andy Holgate

Ben Hunt

Bill Howell

Bob Holmes

Brian Halford

Brian Horton

Brian Horton has collaborated with Tim Rich to write his life story. Tim is a football writer with the i and the Daily Mail. He has been deputy football correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and covered five World Cup finals. He co-wrote the autobiographies of Ron Atkinson and Andrei Kanchelskis and has written a biography of Marcelo Bielsa. In 2018, he wrote the critically acclaimed Manchester City-themed Caught Beneath the Landslide.

Brian Hughes

Christopher Hylland

Cliff Hague

Clive Hammond

Clive Hetherington

Clive Holt,

Clive Holt has collaborated with Dave Thomas to tell his story. Dave has written more than 20 books on Burnley FC, including six others for Pitch Publishing. Dave started watching Burnley in 1960. A former headmaster, he now lives in Leeds but travels to Burnley for every game.

Craig Hazell

Damian Hughes

Daniel Hurley

Dave Hannigan

Dave Heeley

David Hartrick

David Herd

Derek Hammond

Dominic Hougham

Dominic Hougham is the author of Fifty Great World Cup Matches… and Why You Should Watch Them! and a full-time contributor to These Football Times magazine. A lover of Italian football, especially in the late 1980s and 1990s, he has appeared on podcasts to discuss that era. He has a deep affection for the Italian lifestyle, country and calcio.

Ed Hawkins

Elliot Huntley

Emile Heskey

Emile Heskey has collaborated with Dean Eldredge to write his life story.

Gary Heatly

Geoff Hart

Geoff Hurst

Gideon Haigh

Graham Hiley

Gregory Howe

Holly Hunt

A lifelong Rotherham United supporter and former season-ticket holder at the New York Stadium, Holly Hunt is a football journalist who covers the English Football League. Born and raised in South Yorkshire, she has charted the highs and lows of her hometown team in a professional capacity. Holly has written for various publications and magazines, reporting on the Millers at Wembley in cup and play-off finals on more than one occasion.

Ian Hall

Ian Hall first watched Leeds United as a boy under the management of Jimmy Armfield. They lost 2-1. After the next six matches he attended likewise ended in defeat, his dad told him to stick to Match of the Day. When his Elland Road ban was lifted under Allan Clarke, the team ended up relegated. Ian has previously written mainly on politics. This is his first sports book.

Ian Heads

Ian Henley

Ian Hogg

Ian Hogg is a lifelong Rangers fan with a passion for football history. Our Rangers Heroes grew out of a podcast research project that started on Pass-a-grille Beach, Florida, after discovering that a Scotsman had managed the Egypt national side in the 1930s. Down the research rabbit hole he fell, emerging with a wealth of material and a burning desire to put pen to paper. This book is the result.

James Harrison

James A Harrison is a lifelong England supporter and football writer who has travelled extensively following the national team across Europe and major international tournaments. His work has appeared in NINE Magazine, BOSSEN Magazine and Lower Block, where he has written extensively about supporter culture, football history and the game’s social impact. He has also appeared on more than 150 football podcasts and radio programmes discussing the England fan scene. Follow England Away: Life with Saint George is his first book.

James Hawkins

James Hendicott

Sascha Düerkop is a German journalist, researcher and football obsessive best known for owning a football shirt from every recognised national team. He was the first general secretary of CONIFA and led the organisation for seven years, exploring unrecognised nations on and off the pitch, organising international tournaments and navigating complex political challenges along the way. He is no longer involved in CONIFA, but continues to travel and work in diverse regions, alongside running a charity. James Hendicott is a Dublin-based journalist who befriended Sascha during a London tournament and worked with him to tell this story.

Jason Holyhead

Jeff Holmes

Joe Hetherington

John Harding

John Hendley

John Holder

Johnny Hubbard

Jon Howe

Kris Henley

Kris has worked as a freelance TV producer since 1993 for Star TV, the Golf Channel, BSkyB, Disney ESPN and Fox Sports covering Formula One, Formula E, other motorsports, boxing, American football and golf. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ian worked in sales and marketing for technology companies and founded a management consultancy. He lives in north London.

Lynne Hapgood

Marc Hayes

Marc Higginson

Marc Higginson is an experienced BBC Sport journalist and lifelong Manchester City supporter. Despite the heartache, he wouldn’t swap his experiences of watching Terry Phelan bombing down the left wing or Georgi Kinkladze making mincemeat of opposition midfields for anything. Yes, there were lows – but the highs were and continue to be spectacular. Marc is the proud father of three boys: Luca, Leo and Arlo.

Mark Hodkinson

Maurice Hope

Michael Heatley

Michael Heinicke

Neil Harman

Oli Hein

Oli Hein has been a diplomat for the UN, the OSCE and the UK. He now resides in England, in the Cotswolds, and is a regular contributor to The Chap magazine. Punch A Hole In The Wind is his first book.

Paul Hodgson

Paul started his writing career in the 1990s and published his first book, Flipper’s Side, in 2000. He released his second book, When Push Comes To Shove, which charts the highs and lows of supporting Darlington FC over two seasons, in 2003. He wrote the feature script for Give Them Wings in 2015, an adaptation of Flipper’s Side. In 2021, he published Give Them Wings in book form.

Phil Harrison

Phil Harrison is the author of Inside the Hermit Kingdom: Football Stories from Stalinist Albania. He has previously written and co-edited for KIT Magazine and 3Retro and scribed articles in collaboration with TOFFS and Admiral marketing teams. His work has also featured in The Guardian and Daily Mail. Phil is the authoritative host of the Fussball Geekz podcast and has guested on numerous other podcasts.

Richard Harrison

Richard Harrison wrote The Ultimate Nottingham Forest Quiz Book (The History Press, 2016). He has written for Forest’s match-day programme every season since 2012/13, and is now contributing ‘Memorable Match’ articles for all their home games. He has also written for When Saturday Comes and Forest fanzines.

Richard Hough

Richard Hough has lived in Verona since 2011 and writes about the region’s history, football, wine and culture. He was the editor of the Crazy Faithful fanzine, and in 2024 he published Notes from Verona: An Anthology, a collection of essays that offers a refreshing insight into life in Italy. The first two volumes of Verona at War (part of a planned trilogy) tell the story of the rise of fascism in Verona and the city’s subsequent occupation.

Ricky Hill

Ricky Hill has collaborated with Adrian Durham to write his story. Adrian has been a presenter at talkSPORT Radio since it began in 2000, and has written two other books, Is He All That?: Great Footballing Myths Shattered and Judas?: The Story of Paul Cooke. He is a former Mail Online columnist.

Rob Harris

Roger Holmes

Ryan Hills

Sam Hudson

Shaka Hislop

Steve Hunt

Stuart Horsfield

Stuart Horsfield is a senior writer for These Football Times, contributing to their online long-form content and their bi-monthly magazine as well as hosting their Centre Circle podcast series. Stuart is also a regular writer for No Place Like Home magazine. 1982 Brazil is his first book and it covers his specialist subject.

Stuart Humphreys

Stuart Humphreys co-edited Private Beatson’s War (Pen & Sword, 2009), the evocative diary of a First World War soldier killed at the Somme.

Tim Hain

Tim Hartley

Tom Hicks

Tom Holmes

Tommy Hutchison

Tommy Hutchison shared many pots of tea and the odd Scottish fudge donut with Kevin Shannon while writing his life story. After retiring from teaching, Kevin co-wrote this book to fulfil a long-term ambition. As an obsessed Coventry fan, he could think of no better subject for his debut tome than the player he regards as the greatest-ever Sky Blue, the wonderful Tommy Hutchison.

Zebedee Helm

Alex Ireland

Alex Ireland is a university academic, football writer and kit collector. He has written about football kits and football history for a number of publications including World Soccer, Halb Vier and United We Stand. Alex supports his local side, Manchester United, and collects 1990s long-sleeve club football shirts. 

Ben Isaacs

Ben Isaacs is a journalist and broadcaster who started his career writing for Hip Hop Connection while still at university. Since then he has worked at The Press Association, News UK, Time Out London and ShortList magazine, where he was sport editor. He is a regular on the NFL podcasts and a co-host on talkSPORT’s NFL coverage. His first book was Today In NFL History: Pro Football’s Most Important Events – from the Atom Bowl to the Fog Bowl.

John Irwin

Ralph Ineson

Tamsin Imber

Alexis James

Ben Jackson

Ben Jones

Chris Jones

Chris Jones holds four degrees from Aston, The Open and Huddersfield universities, including an MA Research Degree on the development of gambling in the inter-war period. He lives in Halifax and works in the social-care field. This is his first book.

Christopher Alan Jones

England’s Nadir? is Chris Jones’s second book after England’s Calamity? , which was published by Pitch in 2023. He has contributed multiple articles and book reviews to Turnstiles, DiegoMag and Red All Over magazines. He holds four degrees from Aston, The Open and Huddersfield universities, which includes an MA Research degree on the development of the football pools in the inter-war period. He works in the social care field.

David Jackson

Gareth James

Gary Jordan

Gary Jordan is the author of two books and the co-author of AFC Wimbledon: On This Day. Previously he wrote about Wimbledon’s return to Plough Lane after a 30-year absence in Show Me the Way to Plough Lane. He is an AFC Wimbledon season-ticket holder and has been an avid Dons fan since the mid-1980s. He is also editor of the club’s matchday programme.

Gordon Jago

Jairzinho

James Jackson

John Jarrett

Kate Johnson

Kevin Jefferys

Neil James

Neil Jensen

Nick Johnson

Pat Jennings

Paul Joannou

Former Newcastle United official club historian Paul Joannou has penned several definitive histories of the club, including the acclaimed Newcastle trilogy The First 100 Years & More, The Ultimate Record and The Ultimate Who’s Who. He also wrote the authorised biography The Hughie Gallacher Story and Shirt of Legends, a lively tale of Newcastle’s centre-forward tradition. Paul has a deep interest in the wider history of football.

Peter Kenny Jones

Peter Kenny Jones is a football historian, writer and author, specialising in Merseyside football history. In this, his third book on the subject, contact with ex-Liverpool players and family members of Tommy Lawrence has given him special insight into a unique character in Liverpool’s football history.

Phil Jones

Richard Jones

Richard Jones is a tennis bookseller, author, historian and self-confessed tennis nut who was born in Wimbledon and attended his first Championships in 1969. He has written several tennis books, runs the Tennis Gallery bookstore and art gallery and is editor of The Tennis Historian magazine.

Sarah Juggins

Scott Johnson

Willie Johnston

Adam Kenicer

Adam Kenicer is a writer and educator based in Edinburgh. A lifelong supporter of Heart of Midlothian, he attended Tynecastle High School and has followed the club since childhood. He recently completed a PGDE in Primary Education at the University of Aberdeen while working as a music teacher. Tynecastle Rising draws on his experience of the club, the city and the supporter culture around Tynecastle, and is his first book.

Adrian Knott

Andrew Kirby

Andrew Kirby is a sportswriter whose work has appeared on BBC Sport and BBC Radio 5 Live. He spent two years covering Wigan Athletic for the PFA and is a regular contributor to Republik of Mancunia, Stretty News and the United We Stand fanzine. He is the author of several Manchester United books, including Fergie’s Finest, The Pride of All Europe and studies of Louis van Gaal and José Mourinho. A season-ticket holder for more than 40 years, he has followed Manchester United across Europe and beyond.

Ash Kernsworth

Conor Kenny

Conor Kenny’s fascination with the Soviet game began with those iconic CCCP shirts and the grainy Sportsnight broadcasts that opened a window on to a far-flung footballing world. That early intrigue evolved into a serious study of Soviet political history as he devoured countless books on the subject. The idea for this book grew out of an online discussion about the epic 1986 World Cup showdown between the USSR and Belgium.

David Kuzio

Domagoj Kostanjšak

Domagoj Kostanjšak is a primary school teacher turned tactical analyst who now does opposition analysis and scouting professionally. His tactical work has featured on the BBC, in Total Football Analysis, the Liverpool Echo and Telesport among other outlets. He’s also a co-author of The Football Legacy Magazine. He’s been an avid Barcelona fan since his early childhood years.

James Kelly

Jamie Kemble

Jarrod Kimber

Jarrod Kimber is a prolific cricket writer whose multifaceted contributions have reshaped cricket journalism. A three-time Sports Journalism award-winner, he has written for The Telegraph, The Ringer, Sports Illustrated and Wisden and was a global writer at ESPN cricinfo. He is also a filmmaker, part of talkSPORT’s cricket commentary team and a former analyst for the Melbourne Stars and Scotland men’s team.

Jim Keoghan

Joris Kaper

Joris Kaper is a Dutch journalist who writes for various media. After an interview with Lamptey, they decided to write a book together. Joris travelled to Ghana to work on the project with Lamptey in person. In Holland, the book was nominated for Staantribune Football Book of the Year 2019. Joris’s next book, about PSV Eindhoven during the Second World War, will be published in 2022.

Michael Keane

Michael Knighton

Paul Kaye

Paul Kaye is the great-grandson of Billy Cook and grew up listening to his grandmother eulogising about the great sporting feats of her father. It’s a story of a remarkable life that Paul is uniquely placed to tell. Paul has previously written one acclaimed non-fiction book based on his career in the food industry.

Richard Kelley

Richard Knott

Richard Knott is a cricket-loving writer specialising in modern history. His most recent cricket book was All-India and Down Under (also with Pitch). His other works include The Sketchbook War, The Trio, Posted in Wartime and The Secret War Against the Arts. He has also edited and published three collections of poetry, including two of his own work.

Samindra Kunti

A graduate of Leuven Law School and the journalism school at Columbia University, Sam Kunti is a regular contributor to World Soccer, the BBC, Forbes and Josimar. His work has also featured in The Blizzard and many other publications.

Brian Little

Chris Lee

Chris Lee is the founder and editor of the football culture blog and podcast Outside Write. Shades of Green is his third book, following Origin Stories: The Pioneers Who Took Football to the World (2021) and The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism (2022). He has also written for several football outlets, including Football Weekends, Glory and HalbVier.

Danny Lewis

Danny Lewis is a freelance sports journalist and author of The Boleyn’s Farewell: West Ham United’s Upton Park Swansong. He also contributed to the widely acclaimed compendium Iberia Chronicles. After earning an undergraduate degree in Multimedia Journalism at Bournemouth University, he has written for The Athletic, ESPN, Copa90, The FA and Planet Football among other publications.

David Lee

David Lloyd

Garry Lace

Greg Lansdowne

Ian Lockwood

Ian Lockwood was educated at Marist College, Hull, and the University of York where he studied history. He worked for many years as a sports editor in the regional press and was editor of the Craven Herald in the Yorkshire Dales. He has written a 600-page history of Skipton, his hometown. For his sins, he is doomed to be a supporter of Bradford City FC.

Jeremy Lonsdale

John Leonard

John Lloyd

Johnnie Lowery

Johnnie Lowery is a keen football fan, following England and Sutton United home and away. His first book, Six Added Minutes, was written while he was at university and published in November 2019. Lowery has a keen interest in mental health based on his own experiences as a teenager, when he didn’t understand why he was feeling down. Match Fit is inspired by a desire to ensure mental health does not remain a taboo subject in society.

Kat Lucas

Mark Ledgard

Mark Ledgard has been a Leeds United fan all his life. His first was a 3-0 win at home to Stoke City on April 8th 1980. His favourite moment was seeing the side clinched promotion away at AFC Bournemouth in May 1990.. His favourite player of all time is Eddie Gray and he is part of the Oxford Whites. He can be found on X @MrMacca1992. 

Melanie Lloyd

Miguel Lourenço Pereira

Miguel Lourenço Pereira is a Portuguese journalist and football historian. Author of several sporting books, including Pásion: A Journey to the Soul of Spanish Football, Bring Me That Horizon: A Journey to the Soul of Portuguese Football, Noites Europeas and Sueños de la Euro, his work has been published in Portugal, Spain, Brazil and the UK. He has also written for The Blizzard and These Football Times, among other outlets.

Neil Lanham

Neil Lanham is a pioneering football analyst whose work helped Wimbledon and Sheffield United into the top flight and Cambridge United to back-to-back promotions. Building on the theories of the legendary Charles Reep, and basing his ideas on observation and measurement rather than subjective opinion, he developed new insights into what it takes to win football matches.

Paul Large

Paul Little

Paul Little is an Irish freelance football writer turned author who has worked in sports broadcasting and written for a number of publications, including Football 365 and, more recently, the Irish Daily Star, where he spent several seasons covering European football. Building on his widely acclaimed 2022 debut In the Shadow of Benbulben: Dixie Dean at Sligo Rovers, Paul is determined to relay more folklore and stories from the beautiful game’s long history in Ireland.

Phil Larder

Richard Lusmore

Born in East Yorkshire, Richard Lusmore came of age at Hull’s Boothferry Park and Spiders nightclub. Co-editor of the first two Hull City fanzines, he is also a self-confessed Easington United nerd, having been his local club’s press officer since 1988. He is married with two daughters, the younger of whom also suffers his other main sporting passion, Hull KR. Special Attraction is the sequel to his widely acclaimed first book, Not All Ticket.

Robert Littlewood

Bob Littlewood had a long career at board level in industry and spent his working life producing literature, written works and detailed bids for diverse clients, including the Houses of Parliament, the defence industry, civil airports, sports stadiums, public works and many ecclesiastical buildings. His humour and interviewing skills provide a unique and highly readable style.

Rod Lyall

A cultural historian and retired academic, Australian-born Rod Lyall has been writing about cricket, especially for the ICC’s Associate members, since 2005, producing hundreds of online articles, ranging from match reports to analysis of the politics of the game at national and international level. Between 2012 and 2016 he served on the board of the KNCB, the governing body of Dutch cricket, for the first two and a half years as its vice-chairman.

Salim Lamrani

Simon Lloyd

Simon Lloyd is a lifelong Manchester United supporter who attended countless United games alongside his late father. More recently, he has been able to return to Old Trafford with his young son, Ethan. Simon has worked as a feature writer since 2015, covering a range of issues across football. United With Dad is his first book and is inspired by a widely shared article he wrote for JOE Media shortly after his father’s death in 2019. 

Simon Lowe

Steven Lawther

Steven Lawther is a Raith Rovers season-ticket holder who has supported the club through thick and thin for the past 40 years. He followed the team to the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Munich on their unforgettable UEFA Cup run, and his first book, Unthinkable, recounted the club’s 1994 League Cup success. His second, Arrival, told the story of the Scotland women’s national team at the 2019 World Cup.

Tristan Lavalette

Aaron Moore

Winner Takes All is Aaron Moore’s third book. After exploring the nuances of non-league in Fields of Dreams and Broken Fences and A Sprinkle of Magic, he looks further afield and further up the football pyramid by examining the highs, lows and riches of the Championship play-off final and the pursuit for promotion to the Premier League.

Abhishek Mukherjee

Abishek Mukherjee

Alan Mortiboys

Aly Mir

Over the last 25 years Aly Mir has been a regular visitor to western Europe’s highest mountain range, combining hiking adventures with watching football. Yodel When You’re Winning: Football and the Alps is the culmination of those experiences. It is Aly’s second book, following Ten Big Ears: An Alternative Account of FC Barcelona in Europe, published by Pitch in 2022.

Andrew Murtagh

Andy Milne

Andy Milne is an England superfan who has attended nine World Cups. A former teacher turned global traveller, he’s featured on the BBC, Sky Sports and ESPN, and went viral during Qatar 2022. Andy winters in Thailand and runs a treasure hunt company. Known for his unpredictable adventures, he brings a fresh, fan-first perspective to the global game.

Aubrey Malone

Billy Morgan

Brendan Madden

Brendan Madden spent the best part of two decades watching Spanish football as an analyst before swapping numbers for words. As a writer he has contributed to outlets such as The Blizzard and Nutmeg magazines. He has travelled extensively in Spain and lives in London with his wife and two children.

Brendon McGuire

Brendon McGuire spent 40 years working in physical education and sport. He led research analysing football and community which involved all English professional clubs, developing innovative educational resources for young players. Brendon’s work has been published in high-level academic journals and other periodicals. His main research interest in recent years has been Manchester United in the 50s and 60s.

Callum McNaughton

Callum McNaughton is a former player who joined West Ham in his early teens, made his debut in 2011 and had a career in the lower leagues before settling down to a new life in America.

Callum Murray

Colin Millar

Dan Morgan

Dan Morgan is a contributor and columnist for The Anfield Wrap podcast, Liverpool FC’s award-winning fan media organisation with global reach and acclaim. He has also written for The Guardian, was previously a writer and editor at Reach plc and has featured on the BBC and other media outlets. Dan has been a Liverpool FC season-ticket holder for many years. He hails from Croxteth in the north of the city.

Daryl Mitchell

Dave Moore

David Markham

David Marples

David Marples is the author of The History Boys: Thirty Iconic Goals in the History of Nottingham Forest and Reds and Rams: A Story of the East Midlands Derby (both published by Pitch). He was a long-standing columnist in the official Nottingham Forest matchday programme and has contributed to publications such as Mundial, The Squall and Football Weekends. He co-produced the FSA award-nominated fanzine Bandy and Shinty and Trevor Francis Tracksuits.

David Mason

David McVay

David Miller

Dennis Mortimer

Richard Sydenham was born into an Aston Villa-supporting family in Birmingham in 1974. He became a journalist in 1994, writing predominantly on Warwickshire CCC and Aston Villa for Midlands newspapers. He wrote on international cricket for organisations such as Reuters, the Associated Press, The Sunday Telegraph and Daily Star Sunday before starting his own sports management company, Big Star Creations. This is his seventh book.

Dominic McGuinness

Euan McTear

Fernando Molina

Fernando Molina is a journalist and sports marketer who was Maradona’s press officer during his time as coach of the Argentine national team.

Frank Malley

Gabrielle Marcotti

Gareth Maher

Geoff Merrick

George Mallett

This is George Mallett’s debut non-fiction book. As a freelance sports journalist he has written extensively for World Athletics, British Boxing TV and a number of regional publications. George is now a researcher for Fulwell73, having worked on the award-winning documentary series Sunderland ‘Til I Die, and is editor of the athletics website View from the Concourse.

Gerard McDade

Gordon Milne

Graeme McDowall

Graeme McDowall holds an MPhil degree in Sports Coaching Education from the University of Birmingham. He is a lecturer at the SRUC in Scotland and an associate lecturer in Sport and Exercise with the Open University. His main area of interest is skill acquisition. As well as sharing his knowledge of this field with many of the world’s leading coaches, he has delivered numerous conference presentations on the subject.

Greg Milam

Iain McCartney

Ian McCauley

Ibrahim Mustapha

Ivan McDouall

Ivan McDouall first set foot in Villa Park at the age of nine and witnessed both the 1994 and 1996 Coca-Cola Cup wins at Wembley. Ivan has seen everything that has unfolded since and is well placed to explore the legacy of these triumphant years. Ivan’s writing has appeared in These Football Times, Turnstiles Magazine and on the Under a Gaslit Lamp podcast. He has appeared on the UTV Podcast and writes extensively for their website.

Jackie McNamara

James Montague

James Moor

Jamie Magill

Jamie Moore

Jay Mwamba

Jay Mwamba is a New York-based writer and the Irish Echo’s boxing and soccer correspondent. He covered the 1994 World Cup and has been on press row at numerous world-title fights. He’s also written for the New York Daily News and previously worked as a sports reporter for the Zambia Daily Mail. He is a graduate of The City College of New York, where he earned an MA in comparative history. He’s the author of the boxing novel Seconds Out!.

Joe McGhee

Joe McGhee was one of Scotland’s leading long-distance and marathon runners of the 1950s. His achievements include being the youngest Scottish Commonwealth marathon gold medallist, Scottish marathon champion and record-holder in 1954, 55 and 56 and representing Scotland in the International Cross Country Championships in 1954, 55 and 59. Away from athletics, he was married for more than 54 years and had five children and six grandchildren.

Joe Mewis

Joe Mewis is the author of Leeds United On This Day, Football On This Day and England On This Day. He combines football journalism with marketing work, appears on Yorkshire Radio, and was the co-creator of www.onthisfootballday.com. Joe first attended Elland Road as an eight-year-old in 1990, though he can’t honestly say he’s never looked back!

John McAvoy

John McAvoy has collaborated with writer Paul Zanon to tell his story. Paul has penned 12 other books, most of which have reached the No.1 spot in their Amazon categories. He has also co-authored acclaimed boxing autobiographies, such as Jimmy Tibbs: Sparring With Life and Mooresy: The Fighters’ Fighter with Jamie Moore, and is well known for his journalistic work for the Daily Sport and various other publications.

John McNicoll

Wem-ber-Lee is the fourth book by John McNicoll following An Ode to Four Four Two, An Ode to the Chosen Few and It’s Coming Home (Probably). John is a keen football fan who has a passion for writing as well as working in the industry.

Juan Manuel Lopez

Karoly Mehes

Kevin McCabe

Kevin McCabe has teamed up with Peter Beeby to tell his story. Beeby is a social entrepreneur and writer. He acts as chair of an international health-tech company and adviser to a variety of SMEs and charitable organisations. Beeby previously served as a UK Government Adviser and Advisory Board member of the University of Sheffield Management School. He is a former chairman of Sheffield FC, the world’s first and oldest football club.

Leo Moynihan

Leo Moynihan has spent 25 years as a freelance sports journalist, writing for The Sunday Telegraph, The Times, Esquire and FourFourTwo. His books include The Three Kings and Thou Shall Not Pass. He also ghosted Andrew Cole’s Fast Forward, Harry and Jamie Redknapp’s A Family Obsession and Ally McCoist’s Dear Scotland. He is a three-time British Sports Book Awards finalist.

Marco Materazzi

Marios Mantzos

Marios Mantzos is a journalist and author from Patras, Greece, who has worked for various newspapers, websites, podcasts and sports associations. He has dedicated his life to writing about football. This is his second book following The Social One: Why Jürgen Klopp Was a Perfect Fit for Liverpool, published by Pitch in 2023.

Mark McGhee

Mark Metcalf

Mart Matthews

Mart Matthews has been writing about football for more years than he cares to remember, and was a regular contributor to The Footballer magazine, a quality publication on the game’s history. He has also been extensively involved in the production of quizzes for various sports-related functions. His first book, published in 2019, was the well-received Racing Post Quiz Book, and he is now engaged in a projected series on individual football clubs.

Martin Murray

Mathew Mann

Luke’s co-author, Mathew Mann, has ghostwritten several footballers’ autobiographies as well as writing for outlets such as Late Tackle and Aston Villa’s matchday magazine.

Matt McGinn

Mike Miles

Neil McSteen

Neil Meldrum

Niamh McAnally

Paul McParlan

Paul Moulden

Peter Mendham

Peter Miller

Phil Marshall

Phil Matthews

Richard Murphy

Rob Mason

Rob Mason is Sunderland AFC’s official club historian. He has written 50 books on the club, edited their official publications for more than 30 years and won multiple awards, including many Programme of the Year accolades, as well as being Editor of the Year. He first watched Sunderland in 1967, is an honorary member of the club’s former players’ association and has been featured on broadcasts around the world talking about the Black Cats.

Rob Mills

Robert Mills is a teacher, traveller and dedicated runner whose passion for parkrun and marathon running has taken him across six continents and 25 countries. For more than 20 years he has combined his love of running with a curiosity for exploring new places and meeting new people. He has previously written extensively about his quest to complete every parkrun in Italy and has contributed numerous run reports for events around the world. Running All Over the World is his first book.

Robert Marshall

Roddy McDougall

Ronnie McDevitt

Roy Massey

Roy Massey has collaborated with Mark Metcalf to write his life story. Football historian Mark is the author of numerous books on the beautiful game, including the authorised biography of Charlie Hurley, Flying Over an Olive Grove: The Remarkable Story of Fred Spiksley, Manchester United 1907-11 and The Origins of the Football League: The First Season 1888/89. He has written for the Sunday Mirror and worked for the PFA.

Roy Morgan

Rui Marques

Sammy McIlroy

Simon Mullock

Mark Metcalf is a football historian who has written more than 20 books, including a biography of Manchester City legend Frank Swift, on whose behalf Mark had a PFA plaque unveiled near the keeper’s Blackpool birthplace.

Steve McGarry

Steve Menary

Steve Millar

Steve Millar has worked as a journalist for 50 years covering football, golf, tennis and Grand Nationals at Aintree. After starting on a local paper, Steve ascended the journalistic ranks and reported on sport for the Sunday Mirror, Daily Sport, Daily Mirror, Mail on Sunday and Daily Star Sunday. He has reported on Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League games as well as England internationals, covering Euro and World Cup classics.

Steve Mingle

Stewart McGill

Ted MacDougall

Thomas Myler

Tom Maxwell

Tom Myler

Tony Matthews

Victor Mills

Andrew Nagy

Andrew Nagy is a journalist who currently lives in Amsterdam, and has spent the last ten years working for GQ, Esquire and Men’s Health. He was launch editor for the UK’s first football business title in 2004, and has supported Newcastle United for more than 40 years, often wondering what he did to deserve it. The Battle for Newcastle United is his first book.

Barry Nicholls

Carsten Nippert

David Nash

David Nolan

Franco Nugnes

Hector Nunns

Hector Nunns is a journalist who has covered snooker for 15 years for British daily and Sunday newspapers (including The Times, Daily Mirror, The Sun, Daily Express, Daily Star, People and Sunday Mirror), as well as magazines and overseas publications such as China Daily. He often appears as an analyst on BBC coverage from the Crucible, and also covers British and international football. Hector is married to Sarah with two daughters, and lives in Surrey.

John Northcutt

Jon Newby

Jonathan Northall

Luke Nicoli

Luke Nicoli is a respected and established journalist who has written a wide range of books and annuals, covering everyone from Prince William to Wayne Rooney. He is also editor of the official PDC darts annual, which is as close as he will ever get to rubbing shoulders on the oche with Luke Littler!

Marco Negri

Raf Nicholson

Dr Raf Nicholson is a senior lecturer in Sports Journalism at Bournemouth University. Her first book, Ladies and Lords: A History of Women’s Cricket in Britain, was shortlisted for the MCC & Cricket Society Book of the Year award. A leading writer on the women’s game, she has covered six World Cups (and counting), and her work has appeared in Wisden, The Guardian, The Telegraph and BBC Sport. She is editor of the women’s cricket website CRICKETher.com.

Sachin Nakrani

Scott Nisbet

Scott Nisbet has joined forces with writer Alistair Aird to tell his life story. The author of multiple books and a contributor to numerous football websites, Alistair has worked with Davie Wilson, David Robertson and Mark Hateley on their autobiographies. His most recent work was In Safe Hands: Rangers’ Goalkeeping Greats, a comprehensive look at the goalkeepers who have represented Rangers since 1872.

Steve Neal

Andre Odendaal

Dylan O’Connell

Howard Oates

James Oddy

Jonathan O’Brien

Jonathan O’Brien is assistant chief sub at The Irish Times and author of Euro Summits: The Story of the UEFA European Championship 1960–2021, also published by Pitch. He lives in Dublin.

Liam O’Brien

Liam O’Brien, who played in the top flight of English football and was capped 16 times for the Republic of Ireland, has teamed up with Jimmy Geoghegan to tell his story. Jimmy has been a journalist for more than 30 years and has been nominated for numerous awards for sportswriting and general features. This is his second book.

Mark Orton

Mark Orton is a freelance writer and researcher with a particular interest in Argentine sport, having spent a year living in Buenos Aires in 2006–07. Mark is the author of the 2024 Lord Aberdare Prize-shortlisted Football and National Identity in Twentieth Century Argentina: La Nuestra and El Más Grande: The Story of River Plate, Argentina’s Biggest Club. He has also written about Argentine football for These Football Times and La Reina.

Martin O’Neill

Matthew Oldroyd

Matthew Oldroyd is the co-founder of the Nottingham Forest fan group Forza Garibaldi and documents the club’s heritage as part of the Forest Preservation Society. As part of both organisations, Matthew has undertaken detailed research into Nottingham Forest’s history, written various articles on the subject and contributed to the official matchday programme. This is his first book.

Nathan O’Hagan

Nathan O’Hagan is the author of the novels The World Is (Not) A Cold Dead Place, Out Of The City and The Last Sane Man On Earth. He has written about football, culture, current affairs and men’s mental health for The New World, Byline Times, FourFourTwo, Men’s Fitness and Metro. He lives in the Midlands with his family and works part-time for the NHS.

Paul Owens

Paul Owens has collaborated with current and former Everton goalkeepers to recount their experiences of their careers between the sticks at Goodison Park. A lifelong Evertonian and goalkeeping obsessive, he has written numerous articles on the Toffees’ number-ones for the club’s official matchday programme and their unofficial fanzines When Skies are Grey and The Black Watch.

Philip O’Rourke

Philip O’Rourke is a freelance writer who contributes to various football publications. Forgotten Football Clubs of Great Britain and Ireland is his second book, showcasing his passion and love for football history and bringing forgotten stories to life.

Stephen O’Donnell

Steve Ogrizovic

Adam Powley

Andrew Pennington

Andrew Preshous

Anthony Potts

Bob Phillips

Bob Phillips has followed athletics as a fan and journalist for some 60 years. He was a youthful spectator at the 1958 Commonwealth Games, worked for the prestigious World Sports monthly magazine, and was for 17 years a member of the BBC Radio 5 athletics commentary team, covering all major events worldwide. He has also reported or broadcast on many other sports. He has written half a dozen books on sports history.

Dan Poole

Dave Proudlove

David Proudlove is the author of When the Circus Leaves Town and Work and Play: The Industrial Roots of English Football. For more than a decade he wrote a weekly column for the North Staffordshire daily newspaper The Sentinel, and his work appeared regularly in the former Stoke City fanzine Duck. Today, he produces content for the Football Heritage website and podcast and often collaborates with artists and fellow writers.

David Potter

David Proudlove

David Pugh

David Pugh is an English freelance sports journalist and translator who has spent two decades living in Madrid. After years of extensive travel throughout Spain, immersing himself in the Spanish language and the culture of Spanish football, he set out to write The Blue Side of Madrid, inspired by witnessing the rise of Getafe CF first-hand and driven by the belief that every football club has a story worth telling.

Eamonn Prescott

Eamonn Prescott is a racing enthusiast who has followed the sport all his life. His grandfather was a small trainer in County Mayo in Ireland and his father a stable lad for a while, so racing is in his blood. He has owned shares in several horses, including a listed winner on the flat. He lives in Gloucestershire with his wife.

Graham Phythian

Graham Phythian is the author of a number of books on football and local history. His published works include a history of Macclesfield Football Club, a biography of goalkeeper Willie Foulke, and chronicles of Manchester and Salford in the Second World War. He has had numerous articles accepted by Soccer History magazine. He is librarian and publicity officer for Chorlton Chess Club, for whom he compiles the annual Christmas Quiz. He also writes material for local amateur dramatics and comedy groups. He is a resident of Manchester.

Iain Paterson

Ian Passingham

Ivan Ponting

Jack Peat

Jackie Plenderleith

Jake Perry

Jane Purdon

Jane Purdon has a unique story to tell. A fan and a player, she has worked for more than 20 years at the highest levels of football. Nobody is better placed to tell the in-depth story of how football came home in the summer of 2022. An activist and thought leader, Jane is often called on to comment on football. She was recently awarded a distinction for her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, and her writing has achieved competition success.

Johnny Phillips

Johnny Phillips is a broadcaster, writer and lifelong Wolves supporter. A regular reporter on Sky Sports’ Soccer Saturday programme, he has also produced and directed three documentaries about Wolves for Sky.

Joseph Pope

Joseph Pope is a keen follower of non-league football having supported Torquay United since 2008. He is an advocate for the lower leagues: in 2020, he launched ‘Off The Line Blog’, which showcases the very best of EFL and non-league football. The blog has had more than half-a-million views and was nominated for a Football Content Award in 2023. He has also written for the National League with a ‘Ones to Watch’ series.

Justin Parkinson

Kevin Pogorzelski

Kevin Pogorzelski is a writer with a passion for football culture and its impact on cities and communities. The author of Divided Cities, he explores the rivalries that shape identity and belonging through a blend of history, travel writing and social commentary. A co-founder of Total Italian Football, he has spent more than a decade covering the game, particularly in Italy. When not writing, he can often be found discovering new grounds and collecting matchday stories from around the world.

Malcolm Pannett

Mark Peel

Mark Peel has written 15 books including England Expects: A Biography of Ken Barrington (winner of the 1993 Cricket Society Literary Award), Ambassadors of Goodwill (shortlisted for the MCC/Cricket Society Book of the Year 2018), Playing the Game (shortlisted for the Daily Telegraph Cricket Book of the Year 2018), The Life of Douglas Jardine (shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2021) and Gilly: The Turbulent Life of Roy Gilchrist.

Mark Poole

Matt Piper

Michael Parkinson

Mike Procter

ND Prashant

Neil Palmer

Nick Parkinson

Nick Pulford

Nick Pulford is a long-standing Racing Post staff writer who has a wealth of experience as a punter and writer, having worked in sports journalism for many years, including time writing in the Far East. He has edited numerous books including the Racing Post Annual, The Definitive Guide to Betting on Horses and the ever-popular Racing Post Cheltenham Festival Guide.

Paul Parker

Paul Parker is a Manchester United legend, having won two Premier League titles and an FA Cup and League Cup during his time at Old Trafford. He is fondly remembered for his long spells at Fulham and QPR and starred for England in their unforgettable 1990 World Cup campaign. He now works as a football pundit and commentator.

Peter Prickett

Peter Prickett is a former FA tutor with more than a decade of coaching experience across different levels of the game. He has published three previous books: Football’s Principles Of Play and Developing Skill 1and 2.

Richard Parry

Richard Pelham

Roberto Pennino

Rodney Pettinga

Rodney Pettinga has been the product manager for Raceform Interactive since 2001. In recent years he has also managed the team of writers who produce analysis and close-up comments for the Racing Post. He was responsible for By The Numbers and Big Race Trends for the Racing & Football Outlook for many years and has also been a regular contributor to the Racing Post.

Sam Pilger

Sophie Parkes-Nield

Stephen Poxon

Stephen Poxon is a freelance writer engaged in a range of writing projects. This is his second venture into football writing. He is a fan of Manchester City, Hartlepool United and Billingham Synthonia, with Dundee United as his Scottish team. He once failed a trial with Burnley, sitting alongside Trevor Steven in the changing room (Trevor Steven went on to play for England; Stephen went home).

Steve Perryman

Steve Phelps

Stuart Quigley

Tim Quelch

Alistair Robertson

Andrew Radd

Benjamin Roberts

Bill Ribbans

Bill Richards

Chris Robinson

Chris Robinson has worked in football for more than 30 years, coaching in the UK and abroad, and managing Cheltenham Town, among other teams. He has worked in recruitment for 15 years, including nearly 12 years in the recruitment team at Chelsea FC’s academy. His previous book, Over, Under or Through: My Story So Far, chronicles his life journey from being homeless as a child in London through to adventures all over the world.

David Robertson

Devon Rowcliffe

Dominique Rouch

Doug Richards

Fiaz Rafiq

Filippo Ricci

George Rinaldi

Glyn Rhodes

Glyn Rhodes MBE has collaborated with Mark Turley to tell his story. Mark is the author of five sports books, including Journeymen: the Other Side of the Boxing Business and Redemption: From Iron Bars to Ironman, both of which were nominated for William Hill Sports Book of the Year. His journalism has appeared in The Telegraph, Men’s Fitness, Boxing News, Sport Magazine and many other outlets. He is currently a boxing correspondent for BBC Sport.

Gordon Rees

Harry Robinson

Harry Robinson is a lifelong Manchester United fan, freelance journalist and historian. He has written for The Independent, FourFourTwo, MUNDIAL, United We Stand and The Blizzard. He hosts United Through Time and the Manchester United Weekly Podcast. He was born and raised in London but currently lives in Manchester, studying history at university and working for Manchester United.

Ian Ridley

Ian Ridley has penned 13 sports books, including Addicted, with former Arsenal and England captain Tony Adams, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. Three of his other books were nominated in the British Sports Book Awards and his most recent, The Breath of Sadness, was also shortlisted for the William Hill award. In a 40-year career, Ian has been a sports writer at various times with four national newspapers.

Jack Rollin

Jake Rusby

Jake Rusby is an experienced writer and journalist. His work has appeared across the UK press and aired on TV channels all over the world. He has a passion for football and storytelling. Jake lives in North Shields, just outside Newcastle.

Jay Rodriguez

Jens Rasmussen

John Rudge

Jonathan Rice

Kenny Reid

Kenny Ross

Kevin Ratcliffe

Laurie Rampling

Leroy Rosenior

Marcus Rashford

Martyn Routledge

Matt Riley

Matt Riley worked as a journalist in Thai football for many years, appearing regularly on the Fox Sports Central nightly show beamed across Asia, before returning to England as Lecturer in Business Management at the University of Exeter. Today he writes content for Fair Game Too UK as their Regional Media Manager. His two previous books are Kit and Caboodle: Football’s Shirt Stories and Her Game Too: A Manifesto for Change.

Matt Rowson

Matthew Rhodes

Matthew Rhodes was born and raised in Chesterfield. A freelance sports journalist and broadcaster, he provides live audio commentaries on football matches and on-the-whistle written match reports for Flashscore. From 2021 to 2025, he was North Derbyshire Radio’s senior sports editor. A Fine Line is his first full-length book.

Mick Rathbone

Mick ‘Baz’ Rathbone has a unique perspective on professional football having been a player, manager and physio. As a no-nonsense full-back, between 1975 and 1995 he turned out for Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Preston North End and Halifax Town. His highly acclaimed debut book, The Smell of Football (2011), was an unflinchingly honest account of football’s less glamorous side and his struggles with confidence as a young player.

Neil Roberts

Paul Radley

Peter Rogers

Rhys Richards

Rhys Richards is a writer and English teacher from Pen y Graig in the Rhondda Valleys. He has been published in The Guardian and has written for These Football Times, The Football Pink and The Football History Boys, primarily focussing on football’s role in Latin American history.

Samuel Rooke

Samuel Rooke is an experienced journalist and historian. He has written for numerous publications including The Times and Sunday Times, the Guardian and the Telegraph while also working as a Tottenham Hotspur beat writer for a number of years. This is his first full-length book.

Stuart Rayner

Tim Rich

Tony Rickson

A dedicated fan all his life, Tony Rickson has written two other books about football. Gooaal! The Joy of Football Celebrations and Football Is Better With Fans were both released by Pitch Publishing. In a long career in local and regional newspapers, he wrote about football at all levels, from internationals to non-league. At various times he was an editor, deputy editor, sports editor and group sports editor for 21 different newspapers.

Vince Raison

Abi Smith

Abi Smith is the author of more than 15 books on the world of sport and celebrity. She has collaborated with several iconic athletes to tell their stories – most notably England netball star Geva Mentor CBE on her acclaimed autobiography Leap, and Jane Couch MBE, a trailblazer in the world of female boxing, on Jane Couch: The Final Round.

Adam Sloman

Alex Smith

Andrew Sproul

Andy Starmore

Arunabha Sengupta

Beth Shriever

Beth Simpson

Beth Simpson has worked as a journalist and editor for more than 25 years; and has written for International Herald Tribune, Metro, Four Four Two, When Saturday Comes, Classic Rock, Dazed & Confused and Record Collector magazine.

Bobby Sinnet

Brough Scott

Carol Shanahan

Ceri Stone

Chris Sheard

Chris Slegg

Chris Sykes

Christopher Sandford

Christopher Sweeney

Clare Schofield

Clare Schofield is a writer, amateur historian and blogger based in Reading, Berkshire. She has written for various magazines and journals, primarily on the subjects of genealogy, 19th-century history and Leeds United. Boro Boys is her first book.

Clare Shine

Colin Shindler

Colin Stein

David Saffer

Chris and Tony Galvin have teamed up with David Saffer to tell their enthralling footballing story. David has penned 24 books including two Times top-10 bestsellers. He co-authored Alex Stepney’s From Tooting Common to the Stretford End, Duncan McKenzie’s The Last Fancy Dan and Allan Clarke’s Sniffer. A life member of Leeds Cricket & Football Hospital Relays Association, David has written for many publications.

David Sedgwick

David Segar

David Sharpe

David Sheepshanks

David Sheepshanks was a successful food entrepreneur and Ipswich Town chairman when he unexpectedly found himself leading the Football League. He went on to become a major figure at the FA, where he spearheaded the project to build St George’s Park. Today, he divides his time between coaching business leaders, charity work and advising both the FA and Somerset County Cricket Club.

David Snowdon

David Speedie

David Speedie has teamed up with renowned football writer and Darlington FC devotee Paul Hodgson to tell his story. A writer since the 1990s, this is Paul’s seventh book and his fourth with Pitch, including his inspirational autobiography, For the Love of Darlo, which reveals how he overcame severe disability to achieve his ambitions. Paul is also an accomplished scriptwriter with multiple awards to his name.

David Stuart

David Stubley

David Stubley began his career at ITV and Channel 4 and has spent more than 30 years working in television, advertising and sports marketing. He has led global sports marketing teams at leading agencies and helped negotiate some of sport’s biggest TV and sponsorship deals with FIFA, UEFA, Formula 1 and Olympic sports. He is widely regarded as an industry thought leader, serves on the boards of several sport-related organisations, and his debut book, Gamechangers and Rainmakers, was talkSPORT’s Book of the Month in January 2025.

Derek Sculthorpe

Dominic J. Stevenson

Dominic J Stevenson is a passionate writer from Nottingham, England. Working on several projects concurrently, he has pioneered a style of writing which can be seen in book one of the trilogy The Guerrilla Punk Writer. Furthermore, he has written a first novel, created Portrait Writing and is hard at work on The Art of Tennis: Volume 2. Based in Germany, Dominic self-published the mini-book, An Artist’s Eye View of the Football World Cup 2018.

Erik Samuelson

Fernando Signorini

Fernando Signorini was Diego Maradona’s personal trainer between 1983 and 1994, and worked for the Argentina national team and several clubs in Argentina, Italy and Mexico.

Franklyn Stephenson

Gary Sherrard

After two decades of writing and production in magazines and regional newspapers, including The Northern Echo and the hit football publication Match, Gary spent 16 years in the backroom team at a title-winning club in another sport. His story of a young man’s support for Newcastle United in challenging times draws on his collection of notebooks, diaries, cuttings and scrapbooks from the time.

Gary Silke

George Scott

Graeme Strachan

Graham Sharpe

Graham Sharpe, an award-winning journalist, has written widely on the lighter, quirkier sides of horseracing and racehorses, jockeys and trainers, owners, racegoers, punters and bookmakers, with first-hand knowledge, experience and insight, gained from almost 50 years working in the industry. His strength is compiling and reporting the unusual, unexpected, unlikely and otherwise uncatalogued elements of this worldwide sport.

Ian Salmon

Ian Stewart

James Stephen

James Stephen was born and bred in Edinburgh, and was brought up amid the football rivalry of the city. He has written extensively about football in Edinburgh, including Hibernian’s famous Scottish Cup ‘curse’.

John Sheridan

John was born in Glasgow in 1943. After learning his trade as a physio in non-league football, he entered the world of professional football with Luton Town in 1979. Seven years later, he moved to Tottenham Hotspur with David Pleat and coach Trevor Hartley. Despite David leaving the club the next year, John stayed until 1993 and during that time he oversaw Paul Gascoigne’s rehabilitation from a career-threatening injury.

John Silk

John Smith

Jon Spurling

Keith Salmon

Keith Salmon lives on the Isle of Man with his wife Nikki, his son Charlie and his daughter Izzy. There’s Something the Kop Wants You to Know is his second book following 2009’s We Had Dreams and Songs to Sing, which was purchased in more than 30 countries. Keith was born on the banks of the River Mersey and hails from the north end of Liverpool. He has been a Kop season-ticket holder for nearly 40 years.

Kenny Swain

Kevin Shannon

Kevin Stirling

Kieran Smith

Lee Scott

Lee Simpson

Mark Saggers

Mark Sanderson

Mark Sands

Mark Sands is a member of Lancashire County Cricket Club and a qualified junior cricket coach. Having written on the game for County Cricket Matters magazine, this is his first full-length book. Stars on Sunday is a testament to his deep love of county cricket and the format that ignited his interest in the game.

Michael Sexton

Michele Savidge

Mike Smith

Murray Scougall

Neil Simpson

In a four-decade journalistic career, Neil Drysdale has covered many major sports events, including the 1995 Rugby World Cup and the 2000 Olympics. An award-winning feature writer, his work has appeared in The Herald, The Sunday Times and The Press & Journal. He has authored several books, including a best-selling biography of Scotland and Rangers manager Walter Smith, and he co-wrote Scotland goalkeeper Alan Rough’s autobiography.

Nick Serpell

Nick Serpell is a former BBC journalist. In his early career he was the sports editor at BBC Radio Cornwall and commentated on many rugby matches, including two County Championship finals at Twickenham. He went on to work in network television and wrote extensively for the BBC website. He has been a proud, if sometimes distant, member of the Redruth club for more than 30 years.

Nick Szczepanik

Nihar Suthar

Pat Symes

Paul Simpson

Paul has collaborated with Andy Hall, an experienced author, journalist and former football media officer. His previous books include Nice One Skip, the biography of former Leeds United and Carlisle United favourite Peter McConnell, and On This Day, a history of Carlisle United. During a 24-year spell as Carlisle United’s media officer, he won multiple Football League awards for content and editing, while also contributing extensively to regional and national newspapers. He has worked closely with Paul Simpson to tell the story of one of football’s most fascinating careers.

Paul Smith

Paul Sturrock

Penny Stanley

Phil Spencer

Phil Stevens

Richard Shepherd

Richard Stainthorpe

Richard Sydenham

Rob Smith

Rob Smith is an Irish writer, DJ and researcher whose work explores the cultural and emotional landscape of Argentine football. His debut book, Pure Bliss in La Boca, became a cult favourite among Boca Juniors supporters and football readers, praised for its blend of history, heart and cultural insight. Smith’s work focuses on the intersection of football, identity and community – themes he approaches with a storyteller’s instinct.

Ron Shillingford

Steve Fleming

Steven Scragg

Stuart Steelyard

Stuart Steelyard is a retro-football writer and creator of Stu’s Football Flashbacks, a popular nostalgic account on X with more than 50,000 followers. He also runs a blog of the same name and has written numerous articles for the football magazine Late Tackle, bringing the game’s quirks, characters and forgotten stories back to life.

Tom Scholes

Tom Scholes is a French football and Paris Saint Germain specialist with extensive experience of covering both the league and club for outlets such as Get French Football News, These Football Times and many more. He works regularly with talkSPORT as part of their digital team, producing content across radio, television and YouTube. The Parisian Revolution is his third release with Pitch.

Vasilis Sambrakos

Adam Thornton

Alan Thatcher

Alan Tonge

Amanda Tanner

Ann Tornkvist

Barrie Tomlinson

Ben Thornley

Bruce Talbot

Dan Trelfer

Dave Thomas

Dave Tickner

Dave Tomlinson

Dave Tomlinson is a prolific and celebrated author who has penned 11 books on Leeds United, including Leeds United: A History, Dirty Leeds: Don Revie & the Art of War, Leeds United in the 21st Century, Leeds United in the 1980s and 1990s, The Man With the Plan: Howard Wilkinson’s Leeds United, Leeds United in the 1970s and Doing a Leeds: The Implosion of Leeds United. He is the webmaster behind mightyleeds.co.uk.

David Tossell

David Townsend

Gareth Thomas

Gary Thacker

Geoff Twentyman

Graham Tutt

Joe Thompson

Joseph Tudor

Joseph Tudor is an Italian-British educator who specialises in tutoring special needs children. He holds a degree in science and one in humanities and has taught chemistry and history for more than 20 years. He has a long-standing interest in the Cold War period and has studied it extensively through many visits to the former East Germany. He has published a book on the topic in Italian. Synthetic Medals is his first work in English.

Karan Tejwani

Liam Tharme

Since 2022, Liam Tharme has been a writer for The Athletic. With a 2:48 marathon personal best of his own, Tharme was one of MHP Group’s ‘30 Journalists to watch under 30’ in 2025. He writes on football as well as athletics, and covered both the 2024 Paris Olympics and the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo.

Mark Turley

Martin Tyler

Martin Tyler is one of football’s most iconic commentators, whose voice has narrated 13 World Cups, more than 350 England games and five decades of the sport’s most memorable moments. A lifelong Woking fan, former player and dedicated non‑league coach, he continues to live and breathe the game. Tales from the Gantry is his personal tribute to a life in football.

Matt Tiller

Matt Tiller co-founded The Jack Leslie Campaign, which successfully fundraised for a statue and continues to tell this pioneering black footballer’s story. Matt is a radio and TV writer/producer for the BBC, Sky and Channel 4. His first job as a radio reporter covered Leslie’s club, Plymouth Argyle. Matt studied history at Oxford and through research, campaigning and working with Jack’s family this book came to fruition. He is an Argyle fan.

Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner has written extensively on horseracing for nearly 40 years, contributing features to The Sporting Life, Racing Post, Pacemaker and European Racehorse et al. He has also authored numerous books earning critical acclaim, notably Mick the Miller: Sporting Icon of the Depression, longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards in 2003; and The Suffragette Derby was declared ‘racing’s book of the year’ by Racing Post in 2013. This is his 29th book.

Mike Thompson

Mike Thompson has had a lifelong interest in cricket. His first book, The Lord of Lord’s, a biography of the early 19th-century cricketing vicar, Lord Frederick Beauclerk, was long-listed for the MCC/Cricket Society Book of The Year award in 2018. The Last Corinthian draws on detailed research, numerous interviews with Mike Smith and conversations with many of his former England and Warwickshire team-mates and opponents.

Nick Tanner

Nick Townsend

Norm Tasker

Peter Thornton

Peter Thornton has written films for several Premier League clubs, and content for the FA, the Football League and the Premier League. He also worked extensively on films and content for the opening of the National Football Museum.

Piero Trellini

Piero Trellini was born in Rome in 1970 and still lives there. He has spent most of his life researching and reliving the Italy-Brazil match of 1982, collecting stories, anecdotes and memorabilia, including the referee’s whistle used that day. He has written for Italian newspapers La Stampa, Il Messaggero and Il Tempo. His other books include Danteide and L’Affaire.

Rich Tarantino

Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor is an author, journalist, broadcaster and obsessive England football fan who has keenly followed the fortunes of the national side since 1976. He writes columns for the national press, including the Telegraph, Spectator and Express, and is a regular contributor to Talk TV and LBC. For 20 years, he has travelled the world as an international media trainer, gleaning opinions on football wherever he goes.

Robert Townsend

Robert Townsend has written for the likes of Virgin Radio and The Argus. In the 1980s, he was a ball boy at Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club’s Goldstone Ground. Later, he undertook various administrative roles at all four of the club’s home stadiums. Robert has also briefly worked at Arsenal FC. He is a keen birdwatcher, and will run marathons for as long as his knees will allow. This is his first book.

Sergio Torres

Simon Turner

Simon Turner’s first book, If Only: An Alternative History of the Beautiful Game, told the stories of teams that were denied glory by the fickle finger of fate, something fellow, long-suffering Walsall fans can easily identify with. He lives in Lichfield with his wife Val, daughter Ellie and son Edward, whose baffling infatuation with Aston Villa sadly shows no sign of abating.

Steve Tongue

Stewart Taylor

Stewart Taylor is an economics graduate and former civil servant whose football writing has appeared in numerous national magazines and Arsenal-related publications. His first book, Stuck in the Moment – The Ballad of Paul Vaessen, was long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2014 and earned him a British Sports Book Awards shortlisting the following year.

Stuart Thomas

Theo Ten Caat

Theo ten Caat has teamed up with Nick Brown to tell his story. Nick was born and bred in London and has written for local newspapers in the area. Despite his somewhat southerly location, he has followed Aberdeen FC since the early 1980s and is the author of Former Glories and New Beginnings (also by Pitch), the story of the Dons’ glory days and a day-by-day chronicle of their 2022/23 season.

Warren Turner

Warren Turner had the privilege of starting his journey as a Forest fan as Brian Clough’s last great side made Wembley their second home. He is a former local newspaper reporter and sub-editor now working as a teacher of English. This, his first book, is the realisation of a childhood dream to write about his beloved club.

Alex Urwin

Tom Underhill

Leandro Vignoli

Neil Vacher

Phillip Vine

Rudi Vata

Spencer Vignes

Spencer Vignes is a freelance writer and broadcaster who lives in Cardiff, Wales. He has contributed to more than 100 newspapers, magazines and media agencies across the world and is the author of nine books, including The Server, which was longlisted for the 2003 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. He first came to Wimbledon as a fan in 1983 and, as a sportswriter and author, has attended every Championships since 2003. Visit www.spencervignes.co.uk for more information.

Tim Vickery

From his base in Rio de Janeiro, Tim Vickery has been writing for World Soccer and broadcasting weekly on BBC radio’s World Football Phone-In since 1997. For more than 15 years he has been appearing every week on Brazilian TV.

Tom Vickers

Aidan Williams

Alex Wade

Alex Wade’s first book, Wrecking Machine, was a Sunday Times Sports Book of the Week. Wade went on to write two acclaimed books on surfing, and a novel, Flack’s Last Shift. In A Season on the Med he returns to his first love, football, but he doesn’t just chronicle his experience of going to games along the French and Italian Rivieras. Instead, Wade, a lawyer as well as a writer and journalist, probes the nature and meaning of hero-worship.

Alex Webber

Moving to Poland in 2000, Alex Webber has worked as a journalist throughout this time, fronting numerous city magazines and working as a correspondent for the English section of PAP, Poland’s state press agency. Away from his day job, for years Alex has devoted his spare time to photographing the Polish football scene. It is these travels that form the basis for the Heart of Poland.

Andy West

Anthony Wootton

Bobby Williamson

Bobby Williamson played for Rangers under Jock Wallace and Graeme Souness, and at West Brom under Ron Atkinson and Ron Saunders. As a manager he led Kilmarnock to Scottish Cup glory just six months into his first managerial role. Later, he managed Hibernian, Plymouth, Chester and then the Ugandan and Kenyan national teams. He has teamed up with Lorne Gardner, a sports journalist for 30 years, to tell his life story.

Carl Wilkes

Clinton Woods

Daniel Williamson

Darryl Webster

Dave Worthington

Dave Worthington has collaborated with Philip Dawkes to tell his life story.

David Wallis

David Wallis has been a Swindon Town supporter for more than 50 years. He started writing about the club in the 1980s, penning letters to the local press, followed by magazine articles, match reports, an opinion column, plus a quarter of a century contributing to the club’s matchday programme. He is the author of Swindon Town: The Fans’ Choice (2007) and Swindon Town: The Lou Macari Years (2025).

David Williams

David R. Williams has been a passionate supporter of Southend United for 60 years. An economics graduate from London University, his working career spanned logistics and project management in England and Australia. But it was his love for United that inspired him to write Never Never Land. A native of Liverpool, but resident in Essex for 40 years, David now flies the United flag with wife Kim in the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia.

David Winner

David Winner has written such classic football books as the William Hill-shortlisted Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football and Those Feet: A Sensual History of English Football. He also co-wrote a best-selling biography of Dennis Bergkamp. David’s versatility extends to writing on politics, penning The Coming of the Greens, with Jonathon Porritt, and a travel book, Al Dente: Madness, Beauty and the Food of Rome.

Davie Wilson

Dean Windass

Dean has collaborated with Phil Marshall, a singer-songwriter from Hull who released 12 studio albums in the USA, where he spent most of his career. The prolific singer-songwriter turned his attentions to positive mental health following challenges he experienced as an independent artist working in a ‘complicated-at-best’ music industry. Back in the UK catching up in the pub one afternoon, Dean and Phil discussed writing a book that tries to tackle adversity, and help people overcome troubles. They went on to conduct and document a series of impassioned interviews across a three-year period.

Derek Wilson

Derek Wright

Elspeth Wills

Francis Watson

Gavin Willacy

Gerry Wolstenholme

Giles Wilcock

Greg Whitaker

James Willstrop

Jeff Webb

Jerome Wilson

John White

John Wight

John Williams

John Wragg

John Wright

Jonty Winch

Josh Williams

Julie Welch

Karen Wiltshire

Kevin Webber

Llew Walker

Llew Walker is a jazz historian and chairman of the youth section of the famous Corinthian Casuals. His research into the extraordinary history of the club and its players was used in the acclaimed 2018 documentary Brothers in Football. Llew is also the author of Andrew Watson, a Straggling Life: The Story of the World’s First Black International Footballer, published by Pitch in 2021.

Luciano Wernicke

Luciano Wernicke is the author of more than 20 sports books, published in 30 countries and translated into 18 languages.

Luke Williams

Mark Waldon

Mark Walters

Jeff Holmes covered sport for The Sun, Daily Record, Evening Times and Paisley Express. He is the author of Blue Thunder: The Jock Wallace Story; Moody Blue: The Story of Mysterious Marco (shortlisted at the 2015 Cross British Sports Book Awards); 1986: The Rangers Revolution; The Journey and A Season to be Cheerful. Wingin’ It is Jeff’s 17th book.

Mark Winter

Mark Winter is a football travel writer, reporter and columnist who worked primarily for the Trinity Mirror Group. Now retired, he continues to contribute to popular national magazines such as When Saturday Comes and Football Weekends, having watched the game in more than 30 countries. Mark is the author of the acclaimed Missed Penalties and Peroxide, the story of an impoverished non-league club’s fight for survival in a relegation season.

Martin Wengrow

Martin Wengrow has collaborated with David Fensome to tell his story. David has previously published three books, plus an omnibus volume on Arsenal history. He is the chief feature writer for The Gooner fanzine, and also contributes to their website.

Max Wadsworth

Michael Wagg

Mike Walters

Mike Walters is an award‑winning sportswriter with more than three decades of experience covering major events across the world. A former Fleet Street columnist, he has interviewed many of the biggest names in darts, football and boxing. Mike has followed the rise of the PDC from its earliest years, providing unique access to the players, promoters and personalities who shaped the modern game. Champions brings together his unrivalled knowledge of the sport and his trademark storytelling craft.

Mike Watson

Nick Weatherhogg

Norman Whiteside

Paige Warr

Paul Weller

Paul Wilkes

Paul Wilkes is a freelance football writer who has worked for some of the biggest brands in the industry. He has provided interviews and features for FourFourTwo, The Independent, The Sunday Times and Yahoo Sport.

Peter Wright

Peter Wright has undertaken some of the world’s most challenging endurance events. In addition to rowing the Atlantic, he has completed the Marathon des Sables, the Jungle Ultra, the Western States 100, the Cape Wrath Ultra and many more.

Richard Whitehead

Rob Watson

Rob Wightman

Robbie Williams

Robert Waterhouse

Robert Weaver

Scott Walkinshaw

Scott Walkinshaw is a lifelong Oxford United fan whose website Oxblogger is one of the longest-running football blogs in the country. His articles, stories and long-reads offer a unique take on the club’s history and fortunes. He has written for Sky Sports, World Football and FourFourTwo, the club programme, the Oxford Mail and has featured on the BBC and in The Guardian.

Sean Wozencroft

Shaun Wilson

Shauney Watson

Shauney Watson lives in Highland Perthshire, Scotland, with her husband, daughter and four dogs. When not amongst sheep or horses, she can usually be found in trainers, halfway up a hill, wondering if she’s gone the right way. After her first book, which detailed her journey to the highest marathon in the world, Shauney’s ambitions grew even greater. How Not to Run: Welcome to the Jungle is her hotly anticipated sequel.

Simon Wright

Steve Weddell

Steve Wright

Steve Wright is Pete’s brother. He has spent his professional career in publishing as an editor, writer and sub-editor. He co-wrote In the Shadows with former footballer David Stocks.

Stuart Watson

Tim Wigmore

Tom Whitworth

Tosh Warwick

Dylan Younger

Grant Young

Layth Yousif

Layth Yousif is an experienced journalist and author who has written about sport, news, music and travel for local, regional and national publications. A lifelong England supporter and Arsenal fan, he also edits and publishes The Gooner fanzine. During a career spanning several decades, he has reported on everything from major football tournaments and High Court trials to international travel and culture. He lives in London with his partner Faye, their family, a cat and a cockapoo.

Mike Yardy

Steve Younger

Steve Younger has produced, directed and written for Sky Sports and ITV on the Premier League, FA Cup, EFL, UEFA Champions League, Copa America and FIFA World Cup. For Pitch International he has written scripts for and produced documentaries such as Football’s Greatest, Sporting Greats and Born to Race. An executive producer on the acclaimed film Kenny, he is a lifelong Liverpool fan. This collaboration with Gordon Milne is his first book.

Lungani Zama

Paul Zanon

Steve Zocek

Steve Zocek attended his first match at Goodison Park in 1968 and has followed Everton at home and away ever since. He has written articles for the Bluekipper fans’ website and the Everton Heritage Society, and is a member of the society’s committee. This is his fourth book. His last book, Goodison Memories: A Lifetime of Football at Everton, was published by Pitch in 2022 to great acclaim.