Dave Proudlove is the author of Ballad of the Streets, The Streets of My Hometown, and When the Circus Leaves Town: What Happens When Football Leaves Home. He writes a weekly column for the North Staffordshire daily newspaper The Sentinel and contributes to its sister publication The Way We Were. Dave is also a regular contributor to the Stoke City fanzine Duck, online magazine Football Bloody Hell, and regularly collaborates with artists and other writers.