Fever Pitch
Fever Pitch
Author: Nick Hornby (Usually dispatched within 7 to 10 days)
AmazingI am a woman, not british and not a big football fan, but I do watch a match every now and then. I came upon this book by accident and I was very reluctant to start reading, as I guessed I was not the intended audience. I have watched a couple of times Arsenal games on tv, I can identify a hadfull of the most important british players and I have a vague idea where Highbury is, but I imagined it would take more than this to enjoy the book. I was pleasantly surprised to discover some authors can really capture any audience. This book is brilliant. You can completely relate to the writer and feel his passion, his anticipation for the next game, his disappointments and his happy moments. A great read, highly entertaining, and not just for hardcore Arsenal fans (ok, I will not recommend it to people who have never watched a football game in their life).
An Gooner’s Point of View
This book is amazingly intuitive. Nick Hornby has been there and done that so far as genuine football supporting goes. He assesses in a surprisingly rational way (for one so irrational at times) both the benefits and the destructive nature of obsession. Although this book is based around the games of Arsenal (and a brief flirtation with Cambridge United) it says a lot more about human nature (and Charlie George’s haircuts) than the tactics of George Graham! This book could save thousands of people from heartache if it was handed out to people entering relationships where only one partner is football obsessed! If you have a partner who baffles you with their shouts and screams and moods every Saturday afternoon between August and May - this book will help you to understand that they are the ones who need help - you will learn to pity and support them in their affliction. If you are one of those people who shout and scream and have moods every Saturday afternoon between August and May - you will learn that you are not alone. Read this book!
Nice,trustful,almost perfect
“Fever Pitch” is about a boy, a man, a football fan, his life, his time, his regretting old times and the feelings he had…Arsenal meant to him his life as a child, when everything he wanted was to watch his team score a gol, to go every saturday to Highbury, with his father, his friends..He grows up,even though he does not want to, Arsenal becomes a more and more important team,and what happens?He lacks the old team,his world…I’ve been to Highbury and I’m a football fan,I support Juventus and Alex Del Piero and I think one day I am going to feel like Nick Hornby, with my team winning the cup and me, there…but being a different me!!That’s life…the problem is not let anything change your way of being, like the author does. Football can be the essence of the world because it’s able to hold all your experiences and let them go at the same way. Highbury, London, football:it’s impossible not to fall in life with this book!!