It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. ***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. You can purchase the latest edition of 'Fever Pitch' here. THE YEAR Fever Pitch is Nick Hornbys million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book.

From his deep love for Arsène Wenger to the state of the modern game, it's a fascinating chat with one of the forefathers of modern football writing! Nick's footballing obsession embedding itself within every aspect of his life and the book encapsulates the joy, frustration, hopelessness and deliriousness felt by a generation of football fans on the terraces every Saturday. Nick sits down with Kate and Jim to remember the seismic impact of 'Fever Pitch', nearly thirty years after its initial publication. It's true that most football fans have been disappointed more than they have been elated, but the boys' parents remember something else: an eight-year. Its author, Nick Hornby, joins us in the studio for today's episode of the Book Club! It's been made into two films, won the 1992 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and inspired countless football fans around the UK to think more deeply about their football fandom. Its true that most football fans have been disappointed more than they have been elated, but the boys parents remember something else. 'It doesn't seem a bad way to spend eternity.'Fever Pitch' is widely regarded to be the best football book ever written. 'The whole point about death, metaphorically speaking, is that it is almost bound to occur before the major trophies have been awarded.' So when his own time comes, Hornby's best hope is that he'll linger on in some form around Highbury, a spectral presence watching the first team one Saturday, and the reserves the next. On the question of mortality, however, the football fan knows as well as anyone that hoping to die with your loose ends all neatly tied up is futile. 'It worries me', he says, 'the prospect of dying in mid-season like that.' It's hardly the most cheering of scenes - but it sparks one of Hornby's gloriously loopy little meditative digressions.

It’s a drama and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that. Leaving Selhurst Park with his friend Frog, they came on a Palace fan who'd had a heart attack lying grey on the pavement. Nick Hornby 71 Soccer is not about justice. Hornbys autobiographical first book, a meditation on fandom, in this case his obsession with football (soccer). WHEN HE was 15 years old, Nick Hornby saw his first dead body. Nick Hornby, English Football, and Feer Pitch M1erritt l le English football literature is special in a wax which can only be explained by the special.

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