Yet they remain unknown: an anti-establishment force that is transforming both football and politics.

A hugely visible and controversial part of the global game, their credo and aesthetic replicated in almost every league everywhere on earth, a global movement of extreme fandom and politics is also one of the largest youth movements in the world. You can see them, but you don't know them. It sits side by side with the very finest football classics of the last twenty five years, from The Damned United by David Peace to A Life Too Short by Ronald Reng, but it is ultimately a book that defies categorization and can be enjoyed by all. “Hornby has put his finger on truths that have been unspoken for generations.” - Irish Timesīrimming with wit and honesty, Fever Pitch, catches perfectly what it really means to be a football fan - and in doing so, what it means to be a man. “A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book - inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming.” - Independentįor many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it's more like a ritual but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself.īut, for Nick Hornby, his devotion to the game has provided one of few constants in a life where the meaningful things - like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships, both parental and romantic - have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal. *WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR*įever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winning football classic

*** ONE OF TOP 20 FAVOURITE FOOTBALL BOOKS - VIEW ALL HERE *** Some of the humour is as full-blooded as a tackle by Bryan Robson, and if at times the author wanders off at a tangent, like Chris Waddle on a bad day, then that is the capricious nature of football.” - Daily Telegraph “Britain's best ever football book.” - Northern Echo Recommended' Phil Shaw, Independent Books of the Year “Pearson's odyssey is an oddity, a book on the people's game to make people laugh aloud. “Forget Nick Hornby's FEVER PITCH, this is the football book of the new age, a mixture of heroism, humour and Norman Hunter, but mainly humour.” - Sunday Times Books of the Year

Shortlisted for the 1995 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.Ī book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcastle is celebrated by a man in a leather stetson, crooning 'For The Good Times' to the accompaniment of a midi organ, THE FAR CORNER is a tale of heroism and human frailty, passion and the perils of eating an egg mayonnaise stottie without staining your trousers.

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