The wonder goal.
The well timed tackle.
The perfect pass.
The beautiful save.
All moments in football that are forever etched in the memory from the footballer to the fan.
Terrace Tales is unique in that we produce the finest autobiographies as well as other publications. They perfectly showcase the agony and the ecstasy and life in and out of the beautiful game. We offer great returns for our clients that include Shaun Teale (Bournemouth, Aston Villa), Tony Daley (Aston Villa, Wolverhampton Wanderers, England), Martin Grainger (Brentford, Birmingham City) Chris Kirkland (Coventry City, Liverpool, Wigan Athletic, Sheffield Wednesday, England) Paul Tait (Birmingham City) and John Gregory (Northampton Town, Aston Villa, Brighton & Hove Albion, Queens Park Rangers, Derby County, England) .
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Working as a team once more!
Meet the team ...
Our specialised teams have many years experience in the finest sports writing, editing, publishing and promoting that will prove invaluable along the journey!
Every single footballer has a story to tell!
Rob Carless
Chief Writer
Rob Carless has written extensively about football and collaborated with former players on their autobiographies that includes Shaun Teale and now Martin Grainger, Chris Kirkland and John Gregory. Rob's books include the acclaimed Three Games in May: And a twenty-year odyssey that defined Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United, and Under The Floodlights which tells the story of the Football League Cup from 1960 to 2024.
Simon Goodyear
Chief Editor
Not only is Simon one of the best Editors in the business, but he also a veteran of many football books that he has written with such notable ex-footballers such as Peter Withe, Brian Little and Tony Daley alongside many other great titles.
Simon will also carry out writing duties for the team so we will be keeping him busy!
Curtis Sport
The Publisher
Curtis Sport was formed in 2009 by Stuart Curtis. The company quickly became of the biggest publishing companies for match day programmes in Scotland and England for some of the biggest football clubs. More recently, Curtis Sport have produced autobiographies for the likes of Gerry Armstrong and Brendon Batson
RPG
The Promoters
The company was set up by Paul Ryder at the start of the 2020's and RPG have since become one of the finest and biggest sports event management companies in the country that include events with Paul Gascoigne, Dean Saunders and Paul Merson amongst many others
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Chris Kirkland admirably represented several clubs in a glittering career that lasted for almost twenty years in the game. The popular shot-stopper also represented England at senior international level and became the most expensive goalkeeper at the time in 2001 when he signed for the mighty Liverpool for a British transfer fee of £6m.
He started his career at Coventry City and played for West Bromwich Albion, Wigan Athletic and Sheffield Wednesday amongst others.
His rise to the top of the game came at a cost as he developed a serious dependency on pain killers that almost forced him to take his own life and experience severe mental health issues.
And now for the very first time, Chris will be releasing his autobiography with Rob Carless from Terrace Tales. The book will document the journey that Chris Kirkland took and will give a candid insight into his world of football and the mental health issues that he faced and overcame.
Featuring contributions from high profile sports and music personalities.
A Terrace Tales Publication
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CUT SHORT tells the story of Martin Grainger's football career and beyond.
Grainger cut his teeth in the brutal world of non-league football and the lower professional leagues in the late 1980s and the early part of the 1990s, at a time before English football went through its transformation in 1992.
He was a tough-tackling left-back who liked to get forward and was in some ways very much ahead of his time scoring important goals for all the clubs that he played for including Colchester United, Brentford, Birmingham City before finishing his career with Coventry City. Grainger soon became known for his set-piece specialities, scoring many times from all sorts of angles.
He was instrumental in helping Birmingham City get to the Premier League in 2002, but by then his injuries had taken its toll on him, and he found first-team appearances hard to come by, but not before scoring his final goal against the mighty Manchester United with a trademark free-kick.
Martin Grainger gave his all and was well liked by the fans wherever he played.
This book tells the story of how it all happened, as he played for some of football’s finest characters like Jock Wallace and Barry Fry as well as Steve Bruce and Trevor Francis.
From non-league to the Premier League, CUT SHORT tells the story of how Martin Grainger made it to the top against all the odds. It is a MUST-READ for football fans of all ages.
*Cut Short will be released on 12 September 2025 and is published by Curtis Sport*
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Shaun Teale’s football story is one of rejection, perseverance, belief and, ultimately, success, as he reached the very top of the game. He was 24 when he finally became a professional footballer. He never took it for granted and made the most of every second of it.
Here, There & Everywhere tells the story of Shaun’s journey from the brutal world of non-league football in the eighties through to cup final glory in the nineties and beyond.
During his spells with Southport, Weymouth, Bournemouth, Aston Villa, Tranmere, Preston, Carlisle, Motherwell, Burscough and Northwich Victoria, Shaun played with and against some of the world’s greatest players and was managed by some of the biggest names in football.
Shaun tells his story the same way he played – honest, tough and wearing his heart on his sleeve.
“He’s here. He’s there. He’s every f**king where.”
He’s Shaun Teale!
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Foreword by Ron Atkinson and Steve Bull
During a 25-year playing career, Tony Daley made over 400 appearances for Aston Villa, Wolves, Watford, Walsall and Forest Green Rovers. Daley also played seven times for England.
This book tells the story of how it all happened for the talented winger, who went on to play for the team that he supported as a boy proving that dreams do come true.
Written in collaboration with Simon Goodyear
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Three Games in May takes us all the way back to Manchester United’s final three matches of the 1998/99 season.
Prior to these games, United had won nothing that year.
However, what unfolded over those 11 days at the end of May would see them complete THE most unique of trebles, and it all came down to the final few seconds of the Champions League Final at the Camp Nou.
Drama at its finest!
By chronicling the twenty-year period of 1989 to 2009, including anecdotes from the players, fans, and journalists who witnessed the historic events first-hand, Three Games in May provides a unique perspective on the events leading up to those fateful three games, as well as the three great dynasties that Sir Alex Ferguson built at Old Trafford; a period that began with United’s greatest-ever manager facing the sack!
A must-read for all Manchester United supporters, Three Games in May demonstrates that there is more to the story than those three trophies and takes the reader on a nostalgic journey through all the trials, tribulations, and, ultimately, the glory.
