Andy Hamilton and Kevin Day have written funny books about football's extraordinary finances.

Drop The Dead Donkey and Outnumbered creator Hamilton has penned the memoir Blue Was The Colour, about his relationship with the beautiful game and specifically supporting Chelsea FC since he was six-years-old, which will be published in September by sport specialists Pitch Publishing.

The comic grew up in a house backing onto Chelsea's Stamford Bridge stadium.

And he told fellow stand-up James Gill on his Always Be Comedy podcast that his book will span the history "between my first game, which was Chelsea v Newcastle in 1960 and the game which we played last March, Chelsea v Newcastle, which was around the time that [former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich] had just been sanctioned [for his ties to the Russian government] and Newcastle had just been bought by Saudi Arabia.

"So that's quite a distance between those two episodes. It's a funny memoir but looking at the changes. Because in 1960, the players were on no more money than the average person in the crowd, they were on a maximum of £20 a week. And of course, last March, the fans were looking at 22 millionaires playing. There are so many extraordinary differences when you stop to think about it."

Elsewhere in the chat, Hamilton likened the corporate speech of Chelsea's media operation to Gus Hedges, Drop The Dead Donkey's gobbledegook spouting chief executive.

"Management bullshit never dies," he said. "It's funny how often I'll catch the new spokesperson for for the new owner, Todd Boehly, and he talks in pure Gus-isms. It's all meaningless gibberish."

Blue Was The Colour is Pitch's third book in the Football Shorts series, following Ian Ridley's Pantomime Hero: Jimmy Armfield: Memories Of The Man Who Lifted Leeds After Brian Clough and Jane Purdon's The Homecoming: The Lionesses And Beyond.

Meanwhile, veteran Have I Got News For You scribe and Crystal Palace fan Day has penned the satirical Unfit And Improper Persons: From Sunday League To Champions League - An Idiot's Guide To Owning A Football Club.

Co-written with football finance expert Kieran Maguire and Guy Kilty, producer of Day and Maguire's Price Of Football podcast, "the smart and irreverent guide to running a football club" is published by Bloomsbury Sport on 12th October and features contributions from fellow Palace fan Jo Brand, ex-comedian-turned-TV chef Ainsley Harriott, Gary Lineker and Clare Balding.

Rather than pass the FA's "fit and proper persons test" to become the owner of a football club, Day, Maguire and Kilty have founded their own imaginary club instead, West Park Rovers.

In Unfit And Improper Persons they take West Park on a journey from the lowest level of the FA pyramid right up to the English Football League, the Premier League and, if fortune favours the fictional, into the heart of Europe.

At least that's the plan, but inevitably they face a few challenges along the way. Where to find a shirt sponsor? What should the mascot be - is a dog called Rover too obvious? Can they pay the women's team the same as the men's team? (Spoiler alert: no-one else does.) What's the best way to avoid money laundering charges? And how can they get Messi to the Kleanwell Stadium next season, like they promised the fans?

Roofing over the toilets, paying the electric on the floodlights, salary caps, parachute payments and avoiding bankruptcy, never mind relegation. The trio quickly learn that owning a football club isn't all about stuffing prawn sarnies and quaffing champagne in the directors' box.