A Bradford teacher who spent weeks in bed with meningitis refused to put his recovery time to waste – he penned a new book charting more than 100 years of Keighley’s football history.

Belle Vue Girls School teacher Rob Grillo, 43, contracted viral meningitis on a plane heading to the Indian Himalayas, where he was set to climb 7,000 feet up Stok Kangri, one of its peaks.

Mr Grillo, of Stanbury, near Haworth, said: “It happened on the first week of the six-week school summer holidays last year and they had to fly me back. I spent four and a half weeks in bed doing absolutely nothing. I was really, really ill and feeling sorry for myself, so I started writing the book.”

His book, Keighley Soccer History, is a story of football in the town from the late 1800s to the current day, and features every senior side to have played in the Keighley area.

There are chapters dedicated to teams such as Keighley Town, Crosshills, Keighley Central, Magnet and Dean Smith & Grace, as well as Keighley’s soccer heroes including Bradford City and Wales midfielder Trevor Hockey and Mike Hellawell, who played for England in the 1960s and for Birmingham City, QPR, Sunderland and Huddersfield Town.

The book also features Keighley's lost football grounds, and a chapter on women’s football. League tables and cup final results are detailed, including many that have never before been published, alongside dozens of old photographs.

Mr Grillo’s latest book follows two previous volumes, Chasing Glory and Glory Denied, his first of eight books, which were published in the 1990s.

The geography teacher has published the Amazon-bestseller Anoraknophobia, about sports obsessives and, a book about 1980s music.

For information, or to pre-order the new book online, visit robgrillo.co.uk.