Nick Hornby
Fever Pitch
Fever Pitch
This is subtitled in later editions as "A Fan's Life" and on the cover "The best football book ever written". That sums up the book. Nick Hornby's obsession and how it rules his life is a great book that any obsessed fan would identify with. I'm hardly an obsessed fan but much of what he writes resonates with myself and would do with anyone who supports a team and is fully engaged in their fortunes. Extremely funny in many parts and all along a dark humour of life supporting a team that have, to be fair, been fairly pedestrian especially in the seasons written about through the 70s and 80s. The high point is the win at Anfield to give us our first league win for 18 years. The book stops in 1992 and then Arsenal went onto become a flashier side than they had. As I write this we are top of the league and I'm dreaming of a league win which would be our first for even longer than we waited in 89. Having come 2nd the last 3 seasons surely this season is ours. God, I'm feeling the sort of stress that Hornby describes so much more eloquently in Fever Pitch.
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