The Overcoat Men: How Two Unsung Heroes Thwarted a Secret Plan to Kill Off a Football Club, Paperback/Mark Hodkinson

Description 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. 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.