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🚨 Check out our new catalogue for 2024 👇
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We're deeply saddened by the news about Trevor Francis. We were proud to collaborate with him on his autobiography and found him engaging, passionate and great to work with. The Francis family are in our thoughts at this sad time.
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We're deeply saddened to learn of the recent passing of football historian and prolific Pitch Publishing author David Potter. It was a pleasure and privilege to work with David on numerous books, and we will miss him. Our thoughts are with David’s family at this sad time.
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⚽️ BREAKING NEWS:
@_OlivierGiroud_
signs for Pitch...
👇 Details on the link below
📩 Keep up to date with our new releases, by signing up for our email newsletter...
#AFC
#CFC
🇫🇷
#WelcomeOlivier
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📚 Now found a new and worthy home for all these. Instead of gathering dust, they’ll be available to the residents of a hotel housing the homeless. 🏨
⚽️🏉🎱🏏🥊 Plenty of sports and plenty of clubs here — can you spot your club or any books you’ve read? 📖👀
#HappyReading
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🏆📚 Last chance to enter! 🏆📚
Take part in our
#competition
for the chance to
#win
a SIGNED copy of Playing the Game?
To ENTER:
⚽ FOLLOW
@PitchPublishing
⚽ LIKE and RT this tweet
⚽ TAG a friend in the comments 👇
Our full T&Cs:
#cricket
#prize
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👀 Fancy 40 specially selected books from the past few years, including award winners and stunning photo books — all delivered to your door for the bargain price of £125!
📚 That’s £690 at RRP, & just over £3 per book
Full details in the thread below👇🏻
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📦 Latest delivery of advances arrives at Pitch HQ...
📚 All out this summer and autumn...
👇🏻 Info below... 😍
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⚽️ 📚 Out today! ⚽️ 📚
The fascinating story of how Brazilian club
#Flamengo
became the best football team in the world, winning cups at every level before beating the mighty
#Liverpool
in 1981 to capture the Intercontinental Cup 👇
#Brazilianfootball
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1/5 We’re excited to announce a new partnership with
@FDPublishing
to create an innovative series of books called
#FootballShorts
. We’ll be publishing three a year – all by top writers – each one around 30,000 words. Take a look at the new FS website:
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📚 ⚽️ Out tomorrow! 📚 ⚽️
The inspirational story of former
#Charlton
goalkeeper Graham Tutt, whose boyhood dreams were wrecked by injury. His courageous story speaks to anyone who has suffered a major setback in their life 👇
#CAFC
@CAFCofficial
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👇🏻 We’ve cut the prices of the majority of our titles to £4.99 on eBook, to help keep people reading quality sports books.
📚 Hundreds here to choose from across a range of different sports.
⚽️🏏🏉🎾🥊🏈🏑⛳️🏇🏼🚴🏻🏊🏻🎽
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🎾 📚 Out tomorrow! 🎾 📚
The Roger Federer Effect reveals how Federer transcended
#tennis
to become one of the most revered sports stars in the world. Friends, rivals, fans, celebrities and artists explain how he has touched their lives 👇
#RogerFederer
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😀 Advance copies of these titles arrived this weekend... all due out later this year... 📚
🏏⚽️ Cricket and football fans, you’ll find details of these and where you can order below 👇🏻
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⌛ Last chance to enter! ⌛
#Comp
ends today.
Enter our
#competition
for the chance to
#win
British Tennis: From the Renshaws to the Murrays.
To ENTER:
🎾 FOLLOW
@PitchPublishing
🎾 LIKE and RT this tweet
🎾 TAG a friend in the comments 👇
T&Cs:
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⚽️ Football fans feast your eyes on this sneak preview of an absolute beauty... 😍
📚 Out 2nd November and available to order now via the link below... 👇
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⚽️ ICYMI: Here's our ad which is on the back cover of the latest edition of the brilliant
@WorldSoccerMag
...
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🍾 Well, well, well... fact so often proves to be so much better than fiction... this one’s got EVERYTHING...
@Neil_Harman57
had behind-the-scenes access every step of the way with
@wwfcofficial
... enjoy the celebrations ⚽️
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👏 Congratulations to
@Scraggy_74
on the nomination for Football Book of the Year for A Tournament Frozen in Time at the
@sportsbookaward
.
👀 Read more here ➡️
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👀 OUT NOW! ⚽️📚
#FromAFieldToAnfield
: the astonishing rise of
@nicktanner799
with
@stevencotton
#LFC
#YNWA
#BRFC
➡️
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💥 Out on Monday - a 'must' for
#ManchesterUnited
fans! 💥
⚽ In Que Sera, Sera,
@WayneSBarton
shines a guiding light on a much-neglected period of
#ManUtd
history, filled with big characters and big controversy 👇
#MUFC
#RonAtkinson
#DaveSexon
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😀 Advance copies of these titles arrived this weekend... all due out later this year... 📚
⚽️ Football fans, you’ll find details of these and where you can order below 👇🏻
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⚽️ 📚 Out on Monday! ⚽️ 📚
The amazing story of Jackie Plenderleith, the only surviving player from the first British side to compete in the
#EuropeanCup
. The ex-Scotland star casts his mind back 66 years to the birth of what is now the
#ChampionsLeague
👇
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🎁 Here are a few of our Christmas ads you might see on your travels this December...
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⚽️ 📚 Out today! ⚽️ 📚
New from
@Scraggy_74
... In the Heat of the Midday Sun is a homage to arguably the last truly iconic World Cup. Mexico '86 gave the watching world an unforgettable tournament, spearheaded by a certain Diego Armando Maradona 👇
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🎉 It’s been a brilliant year working with excellent authors and a great team at Pitch.
🧵 Here’s a thread of some of our highlights from the year.
👇 There are sample chapters on the thread below, as well as other bonus content.
📩 Plus a newsletter sign up at the end.
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⚽️🏆 Congratulations to Liverpool, and thanks for getting it done. Now means we can finally get these four off the print...
⬇️ Plus scroll down for some more
#LFC
titles
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🎉 A huge Happy New Year to all our followers and readers, thanks for your fantastic support in 2020.
👇 Here is a thread of what’s to come in the first two months of 2021.
🥇 Cricket, football and athletics, amongst others, feature in 12 titles to help you through lockdown.
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😍 Buzzing for 2022 when I think what’s coming this year… and this only goes up to May… 👇
Merry Christmas to all our amazing authors and readers!
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⚽️ 📚 Out on Monday! ⚽️ 📚
Dutch Masters is the story of how
#Ajax
came to dominate the European game as the epitome of footballing perfection, becoming synonymous with
#totaalvoetbal
as they created a new paradigm of play 👇
#Dutchfootball
#Holland
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😎📖Very cool page-flip version of our 2020 catalogue available now... created by
@Olner_PSM
and well worth a look 👀
➡️
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📚 ⚽️ Out on Monday! 📚 ⚽️
@BomboneraTears
charts Christopher Hylland's (
@hyllnd
) six-year journey living, working and travelling through
#SouthAmerica
, experiencing its
#football
fanaticism first-hand. It's a book rich in human interest 👇
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📚 🖊 Author signing event 📚 🖊
⚽ Colin Millar (
@Millar_Colin
) will be signing copies of his enthralling new book, The Frying Pan of
#Spain
, this Thursday, 15 August, from 6pm
@GolazioLondon
.
Learn more about the book 👉
#football
#Sevilla
#RealBetis
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📚 More new titles on the way folks... here’s the latest set of advances to arrive at Pitch HQ!
📦 Details and order info on all four on the thread below... 👇🏻
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🥊 📚 Out today! 🥊 📚
Matthew Saad Muhammad was arguably the most exciting fighter of all time, and escaped a life of crime to become a star.
@TrisDixon
brings us the definitive account of Matthew's incredible but heart-rending story 👇
#boxing
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⚽️ We don't get to keep the matchball, but very proud of
@DickiePelham
,
@NickSzczepanik
,
@sjuggs15
,
@RichStainthorpe
,
@BeautifulBadge
(Martyn and Elspeth).
👏 Also very proud of our talented team at Pitch:
@Olner_PSM
,
@deanrockett
and
@Mdl_news
.
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👕⚽️ The ultimate guide: Culture of Kits lifts the lid on the booming business and growing culture of classic football shirts.
@onsidekits
@retroshirtsltd
@KITmagazine_
@FKMPodcast
@TheShirtUnion
@cultkits
@The_Kitsman
@TheTrefoilMan
@ShirtSellerList
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⚽ 📚 Out now! ⚽ 📚
Los Leones: The Unique Story of
#AthleticClubBilbao
tells the incredible story of the unique Basque club. Exclusive interviews with former legends and prominent journalists provide historical and political context 👇
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🔥 Out today! 🔥
⚽
@BlueGoldPassion
chronicles the illustrious history of
#BocaJuniors
.
All the glory, the idols and the trophies are covered in this first comprehensive English-language celebration of one of the world's greatest
#football
clubs 👇
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👀 Introducing
@Mike_Bayly
's British Football's Greatest Grounds... available in calendar format later this year... ⚽️
📅 Details below 👇
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🏉 Thanks to
@WiganWarriorsRL
for superb coverage in Easter programme!
#SimplyTheBest
📚
@MalleyFrancis
<Sample Chapter
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⚽️️ 📚 Out on Monday! ⚽️️ 📚
As Marcelo Bielsa's interpreter,
@SalimLamraniOff
was his right-hand man during his first season at
#LeedsUnited
. Lamrani weaves a fascinating narrative and paints an intimate portrait of a unique football genius 👇
#LUFC
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⚽🏏 We're delighted to report that two of our titles have been longlisted for the 32nd annual William Hill Sports Book of the Year awards. Congratulations to Ashley Gray (The Unforgiven) and Matt Piper and Joe Brewin (Out of the Darkness) 👏 👇
#WHSBOTY
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🚨We have issued the following statement for our staff, freelancers, authors, suppliers, customers and retail partners in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
#coronavirus
#covid19UK
▶️
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⚽ 📚 🏆 👏 Congratulations to
@ClareShine01
and co-author
@garethmaher
, whose intense and compelling book, Scoring Goals in the Dark, has been longlisted for the 2022 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 👇
#WHSBOTY22
@BookiePrize
#football
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📚 We are delving into the archives and picking our favourite books from the past 18 years.
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⚽️ 📚 Out tomorrow! ⚽️ 📚
Nii Lamptey was hailed as 'the next Pelé' by Pelé himself. But instead his career was blighted by injuries, domestic violence, bad agents and a turbulent personal life that pushed him to the edge. This is his authorised story 👇
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📦 Latest arrivals at Pitch HQ...
📚 Further details and order info below folks... 👇🏻
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⚽️ 📚 Out tomorrow! ⚽️ 📚
Twins Fabio
@Ofabio3
and Rafael
@orafa2
Da Silva have seen it all in football - from the favelas of Brazil to the height of European football with
#ManchesterUnited
. Having teamed up with
@WayneSBarton
the pair tell all 👇
#MUFC
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⏳ 𝗟 𝗢 𝗔 𝗗 𝗜 𝗡 𝗚
⚽️ Just added to the Pitch website.
📩 Keep up to date with our new releases, sign up to our email newsletter.
👇 Details on the link below, just click on the banner at the top of the site.
#MUFC
@Ofabio3
@orafa2
@WayneSBarton
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⚽️ 📚 Out tomorrow! ⚽️ 📚
The
#Rochdale
team of 1973-74 are considered the worst to play in the Football League. They finished bottom of the 3rd division with just two wins. Meanwhile, the country was in meltdown. Part sports book, part social history 👇
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🔴 OUT NOW 🥊📚 MILLION DOLLAR CROLLA - Good Guys Can Win 👀 More details here ➡️
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📦 New arrivals of latest advances at Pitch HQ today...
😍 Details below... 👇
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🏑 Our award-winning pair
@sjuggs15
and
@RichStainthorpe
are back with another stunning book.
📚 Conceived after a few glasses of champagne 🍾 celebrating Sports Book of the Year Award for
#HistoryMakers
this one covers the summer’s
#HockeyWorldCup
!
➡️
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🚦 We have a traffic-light system here for getting work from manuscript to printed book...
🔴 Awaiting manuscript from the author 🖊️
🟠 Manuscript with editor, typesetter or proofreader 👀
🟢 On press, being printed and converted to eBook 📚
😃 Great to see so much green! 🟢
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👍 If you want to keep up to date with all our new releases for 2021, sign up to our email newsletter via the link below 👇
📧 We will keep you posted on all upcoming books...
➡️
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⚽️ 📚 Out today! ⚽️ 📚
The story of football’s most dramatic last-minute goals. From late twists that decided a league title, to the heartbreak of last-gasp goals before relegation, to incredible cup finals – this is football at its most intense 👇
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⌛ Three days left to enter our
#competition
! ⌛
Enter for the chance to
#win
a SIGNED copy of award-winning book The Beautiful Badge.
To ENTER:
⚽ FOLLOW
@PitchPublishing
⚽ LIKE and RT this tweet
⚽ TAG a friend in the comments 👇
Our full T&Cs:
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⚽️ 📚 Twins Fabio
@Ofabio3
and Rafael
@orafa2
Da Silva have seen it all in football - from the favelas of Brazil to the height of European football with
#ManchesterUnited
. Having teamed up with
@WayneSBarton
the pair tell all 👇
#MUFC
#ManUnited
#ManUtd
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Fantastic promotion from
@Waterstones
over the next three days… well worth a trip to your local branch! (Some suggestions on the three below) 👇
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🔥 Out today! 🔥
⚽ Wings of Change is the story of how Red Bull changed football, despite a backlash from fans. It explores their successes, controversies and innovations 👇
#SVAustriaSalzburg
#RBSalzburg
#RBLeipzig
#RedBull
#football
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⚽️ 📚 Out today! ⚽️ 📚
Shankly, My Dad and Me is the fascinating story of Gordon Milne, one of
#BillShankly
’s first and most important
#Anfield
signings. He played a key part in transforming
#Liverpool
into a footballing dynasty 👇
#LFC
#LiverpoolFC
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🏏 📚 Out on Monday! 🏏 📚
Lost Cricket Stickers brings you the inside story of the 1983
#cricket
season, locating lost heroes and discovering their journeys with the help of a Panini sticker album. This is a warm, funny and insightful tale 👇
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🔥 Exciting news! 🔥
⚽️ We’ve teamed up with
#1966
legend Sir Geoff Hurst to release a special book to mark his 80th birthday 🍾
📚 Pre-order your copy here 👉
🎞️ Watch this video for a special message from Sir Geoff about the project ⤵️
#SirGeoffHurst
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⚽ 📚 New release! ⚽ 📚
The son of a plantation owner and a free woman of colour, Andrew Watson was not only the first black international footballer, he was one of the best in the world. This is his amazing story 👇
#blackhistory
#football
#history
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🔥 Take a look at our ad in the latest issue of
@WorldSoccerMag
for a run-down of our new
#football
titles - coming soon in 2022 🔥
⚽ ️You can also get details of forthcoming releases via our site 👉
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A 'must buy' for hockey fans 🏑
The wildly dramatic story of the biggest women’s team sport event ever staged on British soil, produced by the award-winning team behind The History Makers
@sjuggs15
@RichStainthorpe
@WorldSportPics_
👇
#hockey
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⏳ 𝗟 𝗢 𝗔 𝗗 𝗜 𝗡 𝗚
⚽️ Just added to the website: Book THREE in
@Scraggy_74
's series on Euro comps
📩 Keep up to date with our new releases, by signing up for our email newsletter.
👇 Details on the link below, just click on the banner at the top.
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⚽ Congratulations to four of our authors -
@Scraggy_74
,
@David_Tossell
, Stephen O'Donnell and
@carriesparkle
- whose books have been long-listed for the Telegraph
@sportsbookaward
Football Book of the Year. Find out more:
#TelegraphSBA
#ReadingForSport
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⚽️ 📚 Out on Monday! ⚽️ 📚
Big Boots to Fill is the story of
#Argentina
’s search for an heir to the great
#DiegoMaradona
, of all the highly touted players who have come and gone, and their struggles with the pressure of living up to the legend 👇
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⚽️️ 📚 Out today! ⚽️️ 📚
From the muddy Common to a new stadium, from lies and deception to proving the doubters wrong, after more than 25 years of displacement
#Wimbledon
finally returned home. This is the
#AFCWimbledon
story 👇
#AFCW
@AFCWimbledon
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Ex-
#LiverpoolFC
defender
@nicktanner799
on
@LFCTV
's
#LFC
Later with Joel Matip, ex-Reds
@MCATEER4
&
@Dominicmatteo21
+ host
@markbenstead
.
Have you heard about Nick's enthralling autobiography? Buy it here 👉
Read a FREE sample 👉
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⏳ 𝗟 𝗢 𝗔 𝗗 𝗜 𝗡 𝗚
Rise Together by
@Adam_Sloman
⚽️ Just added to the Pitch website.
📩 Keep up to date with our new releases, by signing up for our newsletter.
👇 Details on the link below; click on the banner at the top of the site.
#CCFC
#PUSB
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🙏🏻 Thanks to
@BelfastBooks
for their order, first indie to take our bookshops survival pack! DM us for more info if you’re an interested bookshop... it’s great value for money with extended credit option.
📚 Anyone who sells books qualifies!
#Books
#Indies
@thebookseller
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⚽️ It’s
#NonLeagueDay
, so grab a game somewhere if you can… and maybe pick these up for a bit of light reading?
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📚 ⚽️ Out tomorrow! 📚 ⚽️
The Miracle is the inside story of one of the greatest sporting achievements in history. Vasilis Sambrakos has interviewed all the key protagonists behind Greece's amazing
#Euro2004
victory 👇
#football
#Greece
#Greekfootball
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🔥 New release! 🔥
⚽ The incredible story of one of the most infamous episodes in English sporting history, when a group of British footballers turned their backs on club and country before the 1950 World Cup for a sporting El Dorado in Colombia 👇
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📚 🏆 Congratulations 👏 to
@Mike_Bayly
, whose book British Football’s Greatest Grounds has been shortlisted for the Illustrated Book of the Year award at the
@sportsbookaward
#SBA21
#ReadingForSport
#football
⚽ 📸 Learn more about the book 👉
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⚽ A Tournament Frozen in Time: The Wonderful Randomness of the European Cup Winners' Cup by
@Scraggy_74
is a homage to the awkward sibling of the European Champions' Cup and the UEFA Cup.
Buy your copy 👉
Read a FREE sample 👉
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🗣️ "It’s difficult to argue that Cruyff wasn’t the most influential footballer of all time..."
⚽️ Gary Thacker
@All_Blue_Daze
, author of Dutch Masters, provides an interview for this superb piece by
@Matt_Barlow_DM
👇
#Ajax
#Totaalvoetbal
#JohanCruyff
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⚽️️ 📚 Out on Monday! ⚽️️ 📚
From the muddy Common to a new stadium, from lies and deception to proving the doubters wrong, after more than 25 years of displacement
#Wimbledon
finally returned home. This is the
#AFCWimbledon
story 👇
#AFCW
@AFCWimbledon
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⚽️ The story of one of the Premiership’s most exciting foreign imports. Just how did
#Boro
persuade one of the most talented players in the world to sign for them - not once, but three times?
✍️
@DavidBroomeSN
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⚽️ 📚 Out tomorrow! ⚽️ 📚
By 19,
@ClareShine01
was a full-time professional footballer and a senior international. This is the story of a girl struggling to find her identity, a journey in search of confidence and self-belief and a remarkable recovery 👇
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😍 Fabulous
#football
display in
@WaterstonesPicc
It's great to see Pitch well represented!
@CalvinBook
@All_Blue_Daze
@David_Tossell
@NormanGiller
@_OlivierGiroud_
⚽ 📚 ️Find your new favourite footy book today... check out our vast selection 👉
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⚽️ 📚 Out today! ⚽️ 📚
The fascinating stories of non-league clubs who defied the odds and dared to dream big in the world’s oldest cup competition. The book brings the magic of the
#FACup
alive with some of the biggest upsets of recent years 👇
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👋 Come and see us at
@LondonBookFair
and pick up your 2024 Pitch Publishing catalogue.
🧲 We’ve also got some FREE Racing Post Cheltenham guides and 100 Winners while stocks last!
Stand 6E70
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⚽️📚🖋 SIGNING SATURDAY WITH NICK TANNER!
@nicktanner799
📚
#FromAFieldToAnfield
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📍
@Official_BRFC
📅 Sat 9 Dec
⏰ 12.30pm
➡️
#BRFC
⬆️ click for a free sample 📖👀
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⏳ 𝗟 𝗢 𝗔 𝗗 𝗜 𝗡 𝗚
Ain't Got a Barrel of Money, by
@JasonHolyhead
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⚽️ 📚 Out today! ⚽️ 📚
The King Takes Over: Liverpool and the
#Dalglish
Years 1985–1991 is a fast-paced and nostalgic account of a time when
#Liverpool
were the best team in the land, with a brilliant style of football still talked about today 👇
#LFC
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