Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books

🍾 Massive congratulations to @FrancoNugnes from everyone at Pitch after he won Motoring Book of the Year at the RAC Club this week!

📚 His book Senna: The Truth reconstructs the events surrounding the tragic death of three-time Formula One World Champion Ayrton Senna at Imola, in 1994. 

🗣️ Drawing on interviews with key figures from Formula One – including former drivers, senior Ferrari and McLaren personnel and those who helped shape Senna’s career – Nugnes searches for answers while celebrating the extraordinary legacy of one of motorsport’s great icons.

🥇 The award was announced at a ceremony at the RAC’s historic Pall Mall clubhouse in London, attended by leading authors, publishers and figures from across the motoring and motorsport industries.

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⚽️ HIGH PRAISE FOR DANNY BLANCHFLOWER: A GLORIOUS LIFE

👏 "The most riveting football book published this year.. Superbly written and researched by author and Spurs authority Mike Donovan, it is a must read for any Tottenham supporter who wants to know what made Danny and the entire Double team tick." --Norman Giller, Spurs Odyssey

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👀 This might be our best one yet…

📚 Some great Pitch Publishing titles here just in time for Christmas…

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📺 Here’s The Disruptors author David Stubley on TalkSPORT’s Sunday edition with @HenryWinter and @ShaunCustis.

✍️ The Disruptors: Has Sport Lost the Plot? explores how sport has evolved since lockdown, with new audiences, formats, ownership models and unprecedented investment.

🎙️ Through interviews with leading figures and original research into younger fans, David examines why sport has become one of the world's most valuable forms of cultural content.

🏃‍♂️ He looks at how athletes connect with supporters, how new formats are reshaping engagement, and why investors, nations and broadcasters are betting so heavily on sport's future.

📚 A timely and thought-provoking study, it asks whether sport is entering a golden era or losing sight of what made it special. 

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👏 Congratulations to @RafNicholson and @Lonsdale_Jeremy after their books were shortlisted for the prestigious Derek Hodgson Cricket Book of the Year Award 2026!

🏏 Patsy Hendren: A Different Kind of English Hero is the first full biography of one of the most entertaining inter-war sporting personalities. A prolific batsman for Middlesex, he played 51 Tests for England and also appeared 400 times for Brentford. Loved for his antics, there was far more to this unorthodox sporting hero than first meets the eye.

📚 The Women in Whites is the first history of women’s cricket in England, from its 18th-century origins to the present day. Discover how women were involved in the sport from the very start, and have often led the way in innovations. Think you know everything there is to know about the history of cricket? Read this book and think again.