Harry Pearson (journalist) explained

Harry Pearson (born 1961) is an English journalist and author, specialising in sport.

He has twice won The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year award: in 2011 for Slipless in Settle and in 2018 for Connie: The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine.^[1] Reviewing Slipless in Settle in Wisden, Gideon Haigh referred to Pearson as "an extremely funny writer who turns a phrase like a doosra".^[2]

He has been a regular contributor to the monthly football magazine When Saturday Comes for 20 years and has also written a weekly column for The Guardian.^{[3] [4]}

Books

• The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble through North-East Football (1994)
• North Country Fair: Travels among Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows (1996)
• A Tall Man in a Low Land: Some Time among the Belgians (1998)
• Around the World by Mouse (2005)
• Achtung Schweinehund!: A Boy's Own Story of Imaginary Combat (2007)
• Dribble!: The Unbelievable Football Encyclopaedia (2007)
• Hound Dog Days: One Dog and His Man: A Story of North Country Life and Canine Contentment (2008)
• Slipless in Settle: A Slow Turn around Northern Cricket (2010)
• Conkers for Goalposts (2010; compiler)
• Housekeepers, Shortlegs and Flemish String: Three Village Sports Clubs in Northumberland (2012)
• The Trundlers: The Military Medium-Paced Story of Cricket's Most Invaluable Breed (2013)
• Connie: The Life of Learie Constantine (2017)
• The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman: A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling's Flemish Heartlands (2019)
• The Farther Corner: A Sentimental Return to North-East Football (2020)
• First of the Summer Wine (2022)
• No Pie, No Priest: A Journey through the Folk Sports of Britain (2023)

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year . The Cricket Society . 9 July 2018 . 15 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190415232150/http://www.cricketsociety.com/awards/the-cricket-society-mcc-book-of-the-year/ . dead .
2. [Gideon Haigh]
3. Web site: Harry Pearson . David Higham . 10 July 2018.
4. Web site: Harry Pearson . When Saturday Comes . 10 July 2018.