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The Overcoat Men: How Two Unsung Heroes Thwarted a Secret Plan to Kill Off a Football Club

Mark Hodkinson

The story of two men who almost single-handedly saved their football club from extinction. In the 80s David Kilpatrick and Graham Morris spied architects' plans to turn Spotland, the home of their beloved, beleaguered Rochdale AFC, into a housing estate. They set about saving the club but first had to take on the 'enemy within' - fellow directors.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Pitch Publishing
  • Publish Date: Nov 1st, 2019
  • Pages: 256
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.60in - 5.60in - 0.90in - 0.65lb
  • EAN: 9781785315251
  • Categories: Soccer

About the Author

Mark Hodkinson is the author of Believe in the Sign (long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year), Blue Moon: Down Among the Dead Men with Manchester City, and The Last Mad Surge of Youth (Q magazine's Novel of the Year). Mark has written for the Times for two decades, and has produced and presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4.