Fever Pitch

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  This book has a comicly small amount in common with the movie of the same name. It is difficult to take much out of it without a relatively deep knowledge of English soccer history. There are good anecdotes and ideas contained in this book, but they are drowned in a lot of relatively (for most of ... (continue)

  This book has a comicly small amount in common with the movie of the same name. It is difficult to take much out of it without a relatively deep knowledge of English soccer history. There are good anecdotes and ideas contained in this book, but they are drowned in a lot of relatively (for most of us americans) obscure soccer facts.

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  ― Bossdog said on Aug 6, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  "I was as usul looking to Arsenal to show me that things did not stay bad for ever, that it was possible to change patterns, that losing streaks did not last. Arsenal, however, had other ideas: they seemed to want to show me that troughs could indeed be permanent, that some people, like some clubs, ... (continue)

  "I was as usul looking to Arsenal to show me that things did not stay bad for ever, that it was possible to change patterns, that losing streaks did not last. Arsenal, however, had other ideas: they seemed to want to show me that troughs could indeed be permanent, that some people, like some clubs, just couldn't ever find ways out of the rooms they had locked themselves into. It seemed to me that night and for the next few days that we had both of us made too many wrong choices, and had let things slide for far too long, for anything ever to come right."

  "Like most depressions that plague people who have been more fortunate than most, I was ashamed of mine because there appeared to be no convincing cause for it; I just felt as though I had come off the rails somewhere."

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  ― Control Freak said on Mar 2, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Credo mi mancasse (e mi manca tuttora) la passione per il calcio, che è fondamentale per amare davvero questo libro. Il passaggio sulla tragedia dell'Heysel è l'unico che ricordo ancora con chiarezza.

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  ― Giulia Blasi said on Jun 30, 2007 | Add your feedback

• Troppo calcio, troppo. Oltre le mie possibilità.

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  ― Cumino said on Nov 19, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  Really funny

  I don't like football,but I like the way the book is structured. Every chapter contains sport memories representative of the author's own mental condition. The best sports book I've ever read.

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  ― Martha Peake said on Oct 27, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  Even if I am not a football lover I enjoyed Hornby's irony. This is 'High Fidelity' on a football field.

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  ― Annalisa said on Oct 22, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 256 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0575400153
• ISBN-13: 9780575400153
• Publisher: Indigo
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
• In other languages:
  • 
    足球熱
    (繁體書)
  • 
    Fever Pitch
    (Deutsche Bücher)
  • 
    FIEBRE EN LAS GRADAS
    (Libros en Español)
  • 
    Febbre a 90°
    (Libri Italiani)

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