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Inside every issue of Pitch magazine you will find stories, long and short, covering at least 30 different sports. There’s football, cricket, rugby – both types – golf, MMA, boxing, athletics and F1. And loads of others. Because ultimately we are sports fanatics.

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In 60 Seconds… with Bradley Simpson. • PITCH CAUGHT UP WITH THE VAMPS’ FRONTMAN TO ASK A LIFETIME OF QUESTIONS AHEAD OF HIS DEBUT SOLO ALBUM, PANIC YEARS.

Now Playing. • The soundtracks that shaped this magazine.

SCHE-MATICA Taking on Le Tour. • Masterminded under the direction of UAE Team Emirates, work began on the Y1Rs in 2021. The bike replaces the Colnago VR4s - a design that carried Tadej Pogačar towards Tour d’Italia, Tour de France, and World Championship titles in 2024. In short, it’s the biggest seat in the peloton. And with the Italian company claiming its design is ‘built to defy wind’, Pitch drops the pedal on the cold hard facts…

Rated. • Gilets, bodywarmers, vests, puffers ’n waistcoats warming the paunch this winter. Pitch draws the line between posh and tosh.

…Win Away. • In a holiday pick-up game between two sets of rival holidaymakers. On foreign soil.

Park Ji-Sung

Basic, Better, Best… • THROUGH HISTORY

Pétanque.

No.2 - The Audi A4 Quattro • When the Germans fired up the aforementioned, they did it to such an extent that rallying was never the same again.

Mexico City • Get yourself way out west.

Backyards-No.8 The ’72 Miami Dolphins

Club Call: Notre Dame • College Football’s superpower in short.

Alt. Icons. SPORTING STATUES • The good, the bad, and the Wacko Jackos – all in a single whistlestop tour of some of the globe’s best and lesser-known sporting monuments.

Reviews • Jade Craddock turns the screw on sports’ latest and greatest media. Mostly books.

BOXERS In 10 Characters, or Less… • Some of boxing’s most influential fighters. Throughout history.

The FIS Alpine WORLD SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS

Skiing’s Big Stages.

More bits to know.

Who Are The Favourites? • Given one chairlift up to the top, Pitch looks at six contenders who could strike gold this winter.

NOMADIC FIGHTER • Thomas Kipling speaks to the UFC Fighting-Irishman Ian Garry about a life in the octagon, of training for multiple martial arts, and what it’s like being called ‘the next Conor McGregor’.

BEASTS FROM THE EAST • MMA fighters draw on skills from an incalculable number of styles. Pitch profiles five of the most recognisable forms that make up modern Mixed Martial Arts…

SHAUN WHITE

Game Face • Pitch plugs in the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of sports video games and their respective cover stars.

Buyer Beware • What does it really take to run a Football League club?

Historic clubs you’ve heard of, but you don’t really know why. From the Borders to the Wash.

Harry Brook The Prequel • A CRICKETER ON THE RISE, DOES ENGLAND’S ASHES SUCCESS IN 2025/26 ALL HINGE ON ONE NAME? ANDY AFFORD THINKS SO.

Double Vision • HE’S A TEENAGE WORLD CHAMPION. IN A SPORT WITHOUT ANY HISTORY FOR IT. PAUL SIMPSON SETS OUT WHY DARTS PRODIGY LUKE LITTLER LOOKS SET TO REWRITE THE RULES.

THE BRITISH GRAND PRIX: SILVERSTONE • First hosting the British Grand Prix in 1948, and the operational home of the sport ever since, Phillip Horton explores the former airfield in his latest book The Grand Prix Year.

SHOWREEL • CONTINUING THE SERIES WHERE PITCH TALKS TO SOME OF THE WORLD’S BEST SPORTS CREATIVES ABOUT THE STORIES BEHIND THEIR ART.

SHOT(S) • A CELEBRATION OF DEFINING SPORTING MOMENTS FROM THE LAST QUARTER

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