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John Leonard

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Recovering TV news programme editor & occasional author Salute! - out 2024 from Pitch Publishing

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Escape from Berlin
An inspiring tale of redemption, honour and dignity from Pitch Publishing

02.11.2025 10:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Escape from Berlin ⚽️⚽️

16.10.2025 07:55 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A hundred years of City, by John Leonard The place to get all your Stoke City FC news and info

Happy Birthday Stoke City FC 💯 From Stoke FC to SCFC

www.stokecityfc.com/news/2025/ju...

25.06.2025 10:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ideal for Stokies on Father’s Day
A biography of #StokeCity greatest manager, Tony Waddington - director of a working man’s ballet. Plus nominated for Sports Book of the Year, 2021 - Flight to Bogotá, England & Stoke City rebel Neil Franklin

07.06.2025 15:47 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy memories #OnThisDay 50 years ago. Stoke beat Liverpool 2-0 on Easter Monday in a frustrating title chase. Tony Waddington Director of a Working Man’s Ballet still available with details of how the Staffs fire brigade was the Potters’ 12th man

31.03.2025 12:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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As the world marks #HolocaustMemorialDay maybe worth noting international sports’ response to the growing Nazi threat during the 1930s. How successive failures led to the infamous Salute! The Inside Story of England’s Own Goal at Berlin’s Olympiastadion
Out now at usual outlets

27.01.2025 08:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This in The Sportsman newspaper 140 years ago today. Stoke by now playing in ‘flannel shirts with red and white stripes and white knickerbockers.’

23.12.2024 14:35 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Just a little football history for the festive season - Flight to Bogotá..
How and why Neil Franklin turned his back on England & the World Cup to lead a group of British soccer rebels…

20.12.2024 14:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Harry Lockett: Football's Unassuming, Unknown and Unsung Founding Father Harry Lockett was first secretary of the Football League. This is the story of his remarkable life, from humble beginnings in Derby, where football was illegal, to writing the laws of the game and hol...

If you’re looking for a 🎁 for a Stoke fan…
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/harry-l...

05.12.2024 08:43 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Many thanks!

03.12.2024 15:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An eclectic selection of books available from Pitch Publishing & yours truly. Ideal for sports lovers. A bio of the Director of a Working Man’s Ballet plus a couple of controversial episodes in English football history, Flight to Bogotá & Salute!

16.11.2024 11:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A German refugee’s UK visa sponsored by an England footballer was due to run out, on or about, this infamous day 9/11/1938 - Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. The horrific violent mass attacks on Jews across Nazi Germany. All covered in Salute! from @PitchPublishing

13.11.2024 09:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Salute! The Inside Story of England's Own Goal at Berlin's Olympiastadion
A fraught tale of botched diplomacy, the cynical manipulation of sport and poltics, and salvation for a refugee from the Nazis
Out now in hardback & ebook from usual outlets ⚽️

13.11.2024 09:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

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