Nick Hornby Fever Pitch Introduction 1968—1975 Home Début A Spare Jimmy Husband Don Rogers England! Camping Boring, Boring Arsenal Pelé Thumped Can You See Me on the Box? How I Won the Double Another City Islington Boy Happy My Mum and Charlie George Social History Me and Bob McNab Wembley II—the Nightmare Continues A New Family A Matter of Life and Death Graduation Day The Whole Package Carol Blackburn Goodbye to all that 1976—1986 My Second Childhood Supermac A Fourth Division Town Boys and Girls Just Like a Woman Wembley III—the Horror Returns Sugar Mice and Buzzcocks Albums Wembley IV—the Catharsis Filling a Hole Liam Brady Arsenalesque Life After Football Part of the Game My Brother Clowns Same Old Arsenal A Trivial Pursuit Coach On the Pitch The Munsters and Quentin Crisp Charlie Nicholas A Seven-Month Hiccup Coconuts Pete Heysel Dying on its Feet Drinking Again The Pits Freeing The Log-Jam 1986—1992 George A Male Fantasy From NW3 to N17 Just Another Saturday Golden Bananas The King of Kenilworth Road My Ankle The Match No Apology Necessary Welcome to England Gus Caesar Walking Distance Tyranny Hillsborough The Greatest Moment Ever Seats Smoking Seven Goals and a Punch-Up Saddam Hussein and Warren Barton Typical Arsenal Playing A Sixties Revival About The Author 1
Nick Hornby Fever Pitch I’d like to thank Liz Knights for her tremendous support, encouragement and enthusiasm; Virginia Bovell for her tolerance and understanding; Nick Coleman, Ian Craig, Ian Preece, Caroline Dawnay and Viv Redman.
For my mother, and for my father
