TITLE = Fever Pitch AUTHOR = Nick Hornby PRICE = US$ 10 (pb) SIZE = 300 pgs YEAR = SOURCE = www.amazon.com RATING = 4 stars
A seminal work of soccer literature :)
Well, you might want to go that far, but this is a wonderful account of an
obssesed Arsenal fan. If you've seen the movie, you were probably upset by
all the touchy-feely crap, which the book luckily ignores to concentrate
on the real life-and-death suffering of a true fan. Regardless of
whether you're an Arse fan or not, this work should strike a chord in the
heart of every football fan. (Unless of course you're a Manchester
United-Johnny-Come-Lately).
Hornby has since gone on to write trivial relationship crap, such as
High Fidelity. However, he has maintained some semblance of his
football roots by editing and contributing to publications such as My Favorite Year .
This is also available in German as Fever Pitch - Ballfieber: Die
Geschichte eines Fans Oddly enough it's classified as a "novel"
(Roman), which seems a bit odd. Perhaps the Germans demand a
statistical abstract before it's accepted as non-fiction...