Harry Pearson (journalist)

Harry Pearson (born 1961) is an English journalist and author, specialising in sport.

He has twice won The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year award: in 2011 for Slipless in Settle and in 2018 for Connie: The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine. Reviewing Slipless in Settle in Wisden, Gideon Haigh referred to Pearson as "an extremely funny writer who turns a phrase like a doosra".

He has been a regular contributor to the monthly football magazine When Saturday Comes for 20 years and has also written a weekly column for The Guardian.

Books

 * The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble through North-East Football (1994)
 * North Country Fair: Travels among Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows (1996)
 * A Tall Man in a Low Land: Some Time among the Belgians (1998)
 * Around the World by Mouse (2005)
 * Achtung Schweinehund!: A Boy's Own Story of Imaginary Combat (2007)
 * Dribble!: The Unbelievable Football Encyclopaedia (2007)
 * Hound Dog Days: One Dog and His Man: A Story of North Country Life and Canine Contentment (2008)
 * Slipless in Settle: A Slow Turn around Northern Cricket (2010)
 * Conkers for Goalposts (2010; compiler)
 * Housekeepers, Shortlegs and Flemish String: Three Village Sports Clubs in Northumberland (2012)
 * The Trundlers: The Military Medium-Paced Story of Cricket's Most Invaluable Breed (2013)
 * Connie: The Life of Learie Constantine (2017)
 * The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman: A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling's Flemish Heartlands (2019)
 * The Farther Corner: A Sentimental Return to North-East Football (2020)
 * First of the Summer Wine (2022)
 * No Pie, No Priest: A Journey through the Folk Sports of Britain (2023)