![]() ![]() Slightly baffled that he continued to function as a rational adult when so many of his waking hours were spent thinking about football, Hornby even confessed to hoping his spirit would be able to linger posthumously at Highbury (although the ground’s subsequent development into luxury flats would have left the spectral Hornby watching nothing more exciting than a web designer playing Fortnite while his sourdough proved).īut its anniversary coincides with a World Cup that represents all that’s He told of how his love for Arsenal permeated every aspect of his life and had done so ever since his first visit to Highbury with his father. ![]() Hornby’s memoir was a rational analysis of an irrational obsession. Most importantly it galvanised football literature, its influence extending from autobiography to history to the game’s farthest backwaters in ways still recognisable today. ![]() When it was published 30 years ago, it became the first football title to win the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. With well over a million copies sold, it has been adapted for stage and screen and in 2012 was elevated to the prestigious Perhaps the only book to have genuinely reinvented an entire genre is Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch. ![]()
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