- _Murder on the Ghost Train_ (1995)
- _The Big Scrum: Behind the Scenes of the Modern Game_ (2007)
- _Rugby & the Victorians: The Invention of a Team Game_ (2009)
- _Rugby Union Under the Microscope: An Analytical History of the Game_ (2012)
- _A People's History of English Football_ (2014)
- _The Great British Book of Rugby_ (2018)
- _Football and its History: A Global Perspective_ (2019)
- _Rugby Union, a Global History: International Development of a Colonial Game_ (2020)
- _The First World War and Football_ (2021)
- _Sports Science: An Historical Encyclopedia_ (2022)
Articles:
- "The Development of the Scrummage in Rugby Union Football" (2008)
- "The Social History of English Rugby Union Football, 1860-1914" (2011)
- "Rugby Union and Popular Culture: A Historical Perspective" (2013)
- "The History of Women in English Rugby Union Football" (2014)
- "The First World War and English Football: A Social and Cultural History" (2018)
- "A People's History of English Football: Class, Community and the Football Experience" (2020)
Edited collections:
- _Sport in the First World War: A Cultural and Social History_ (2014)
- _A People's History of Football_ (2018)