A brilliant book which was sprinkled with just enough nostalgia to steer it away from being twee, it told Hornby’s story as an Arsenal fan but also contained elements of his growing up, personal life and pop culture. In that respect, Fever Pitch’s arrival could not have been better timed.

Stadiums were no longer the preserve of working-class men but also children and women, who would soon be able to watch football more safely and probably sitting down. Being a football fan was suddenly fashionable, acceptable and almost a requirement for the up-and-coming celebrities of the day.

New stadiums were being built from scratch while others were being redeveloped at great expense.

The Premier League was in its very early days, enjoying unprecedented hours of coverage with Sky Sports helping to give the sport a bright new look for the paying public - the majority of whom were sitting at home comfortably in their armchairs. Paul Gascoigne’s tears added credence to arguments that footballers - and football fans - were capable of being in touch with their emotions. The book resonated with a generation of football fans when the sport was going through something of an identity change in the wake of England’s heroic failure at the 1990 World Cup. When Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch was released on September 12, 1992, few could have predicted it would be hailed as a cultural and football cornerstone all these years later. Urn:oclc:648713510 Republisher_date 20170322111554 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1369 Scandate 20170319150348 Scanner .“I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring.” Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby Urn:lcp:feverpitch00horn_0:epub:7c91cfb9-b6ad-409d-afcb-a567d62325d6 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier feverpitch00horn_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3129wr14 Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780575400153Ġ575400153 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.4 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary OL18527326M Openlibrary_edition Internetarchivebookdrive Edition New edition External-identifier

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