Ivan Ponting
Ivan Ponting has been a journalist for 40 years, working as a freelance for the last 20 and contributing obituaries to The Independent since 1991.
He has penned some 30 books on football, including volumes with Gary Pallister, Wilf McGuinness, Bill Foulkes, John Doherty and Roger Hunt, and September 2009 heralded the release of his work on the life of Sir Bobby Charlton.
His credits also include The FA Cup Final - A Post-War History; Red And Raw, an examination of the rivalry between Manchester United and Liverpool; The Boot Room - An Anfield Legend; The Book of Football Obituaries; and the Player By Player series, encompassing Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Everton.
In addition he has worked on a regular basis for a variety of Manchester United publications.
Occasionally he has detoured into the summer game, collaborating with David Foot to produce Sixty Summers - Somerset Cricket Since The War, which won the National Sporting Club’s Cricket Book of the Year award in 2007.
The Football Business
My Life in Football (Sir Bobby Charlton’s ‘life in pictures’)
Liverpool Player by Player
Manchester United - Man and Babe (withWilf McGuinness)
Pally (with Gary Pallister)
Sir Roger (with Roger Hunt)
Manchester United and Beyond (with Bill Foulkes)
The Boot Room
The Book of Football Obituaries
Bristol Rovers Greats
The Insider’s Guide to Manchester United (with John Doherty)
Bristol City Greats (with Tom Morgan)
Manchester United Player by Player
Arsenal Player by Player
Tottenham Hotspur Player by Player
Everton Player by Player
Red And Raw
Liverpool In Europe
Match of My Life - Manchester United
The FA Cup Final: A Post-War History
The Trotters (with Barry Hugman)
The Essential History of Manchester United (with Cliff Butler)
Manchester United Yearbooks 1999-2002 (with Cliff Butler)
Sixty Summers (with David Foot)
On Cricket (edited, with James Lawton and Mike Atherton)
On Football (edited, with James Lawton and John Giles)
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