THE
GOAL GOURMET
The Peter Kitchen Story
By
Neilson Kaufman
Doncaster
Rovers and Leyton Orient as one of their greatest ever players.
In more recent polls conducted by BBC’s Football Focus,
FourFourTwo Magazine and other popular fanzines, he was voted
as one of their best players—some of these polls taking
place more than twenty years after he played for them, and is
today still considered a cult hero by both sets of fans.
Born in Mexborough, South Yorkshire in 1952, Peter Kitchen attended
Mexborough Grammar School and represented Yorkshire Senior Schools
and England 'B' teams. He was spotted by Doncaster Rovers manager,
Lawrie McMenamy, and signed up in June 1970, beating Leeds United
to his signature. He made his league debut at Shrewsbury Town
on 27 November 1970, scoring after just ninety seconds.
Between 1970 and 1985, Peter Kitchen went onto play for five different
League clubs and scored a total of 210 senior goals from 545 appearances,
even after his retirement from the professional game, he turned
out for Corinthian Casuals Vets and knocked-in 280 goals from
228 appearances.
In this book about one of the greatest goal scorers from the lower
divisions, author Neilson Kaufman captures the life and times
of Peter Kitchen's career. The book also features many previously
unpublished photographs from Peter's own collection, and there
is a full statistical record on one of the great players ever
to put on a Doncaster Rovers and Leyton Orient shirt.
This book is a must for the bookshelves of any football fan with
an interest on the men who shaped the beautiful game and in particular
for the fans of the clubs for which Peter Kitchen played.
