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Pitch has made a speciality of encouraging unfashionable but publishable projects, its output typified by Robbie Dunne's Working-Class Heroes. Dunne captures the singularity of the determinedly local, blue-collar, radical Madrid club Rayo Vallecano, providing a view of Spanish football beyond the slavish preoccupation of most media with Real Madrid and Barcelona. --Guardian: The best books on sport of 2017

"""Pitch has made a speciality of encouraging unfashionable but publishable projects, its output typified by Robbie Dunne's Working-Class Heroes. Dunne captures the singularity of the determinedly local, blue-collar, radical Madrid club Rayo Vallecano, providing a view of Spanish football beyond the slavish preoccupation of most media with Real Madrid and Barcelona."" --Guardian: The best books on sport of 2017"

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Robbie Dunne is a freelance journalist currently living and working in Madrid. He wrote Working Class Heroes while learning the language and embedding himself into the culture of the Spanish capital. Robbie works in the English department at Diario AS, where several top journalists have helped him with the book - along with the club itself.

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