Press & Praise — Phillip Vine

On the work

A football history written as a group biography: the goals matter, but so do the lives around them.
Pitch Publishing — on The Immortals
Phillip writes about football the way the best novelists write about families — with patience, and without flinching.
Reader correspondence — on the sports books
It was Eric who told him to stop writing only poetry and go back to fiction.
To the Stars and Back — on the return to short fiction

Pitch Publishing · 2022

“Celtic Football Club has always told its story through its centre-forwards. The number nine at Parkhead is not a squad number but an inheritance.”
The Immortals — from the opening chapter
“A football history written as a group biography: the goals matter, but so do the lives around them.”
Pitch Publishing — jacket copy
“The 135 players the support have chosen to remember — the Curse of the Ten, the boardroom battles, and the men who carried the shirt.”
Pitch Publishing — catalogue note

Pitch Publishing · 2019

“The story of the man history filed as a punchline — and the club that quietly built on his ideas.”
The Visionary — author's introduction
“Thirty years in the making: the never-before-told inside story of Michael Knighton's doomed attempt to buy Manchester United.”
Pitch Publishing — jacket copy
“Drawn from Knighton's own papers and three decades of correspondence.”
Pitch Publishing — sources note

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