Fever Pitch... where to you lie on the scale

[bellsavage]

Yeah read the book, the film is a feel good chick flick, dos'nt do it justice at all! I like the bit about being kept back at Stamford Bridge with the groundsman giving the gooners the finger on his lawn mower every time he approaches the away end...class.

 

[burnsjed]

That is how I felt, it is the sort of movie Hugh Grant appears in

 

[Sonic Youth]

Yeah read the book, the film is a feel good chick flick, dos'nt do it justice at all! I like the bit about being kept back at Stamford Bridge with the groundsman giving the gooners the finger on his lawn mower every time he approaches the away end...class.

thats my fav part as well
hilarious

 

[quattro]

haven't seen the film but enjoyed the book tremendously. i can't remember reading a book that fast since i first read "dune". some friends who read it and weren't interested in football at all also enjoyed it but from a different perspective. lots of very quotable quotes too, great for signatures at arsenal mania! :mrgreen:

 

[Sonic Youth]

you're signature ain't bad either :mrgreen:

 

[Asterix]

Book is great, film also pretty good. My sister, Dad and I (all gooners) saw it with my other sister (not a gooner) at the cinema. Gooner sister and I quoted the commentary - "It's up for grabs now!" during the film and got a few strange looks, but great fun.

Whoever wrote the banner in Israeli Gooner's profile block needs to learn some grammar. This is a pet hate of mine. Sorry.

 

[DOls]

I read the book and watched the movie a bunch of times and I can watch it over and over again, cause it's almost as if I am watching myself. I am mad about Arsenal.
Call it an obsession, I don't mind, I call it a passion.
I can relate to Paul Ashworth and his constant thinking about Arsenal, especially during the season when I am filled with anticipation and live from one game to another.
I plan my life according to our fixtures: trips and meetings with family! Arsenal comes first!
I just realised that ... wow! :shock:
And I love it! I love that feeling!
A football way of life!

 

[Anonymous]

"Its quite clearly not just a game, do you think anyone would get this upset over a game?"

My sentiments exactly

 

[marco]

i see myself like paul in the film. Have watched it about 3 or 4 times with birds and they all said that i am exactly like him!!
and the stuff he says and does i see in myself.

my only problem with nick hornby is not that he has become famous about writing about arsenal and his experiences etc, but in the fact that he didnt make an effort to go to anfield. yet made his name out of arsenal yet wasnt there to see our biggest moment in our history.

also in 2002 we had middlesborough in the fa cup i think it was and he wasnt there was doing some promotion for book.

 

[Henry IV]

I am Paul Ashworth. I can really relate to the bit when he has to correct the kid's mom when she says it was 1971 when Arsenal last won the championship and 1970. I hate it when people get dates and years wrong. He pretends to think about Byron and "real stuff" but he's really thinking about whether Arsenal can win the league.

I prefer the book because it covers 24 years of Hornby's life and is packed with anecdotes and attempts at psychological analysis. My favourite sections of it are "Arsenalesque" (Arsenal's bad reputation in the media) "Clowns" (the bit about entertainment being secondary to results), "George" (how GG saved the club), "The Greatest Moment Ever" (Anfield 1989), "Seven Goals and a Punch Up" (Arsenal v Norwich in 1989), "Typical Arsenal" (the triumph in adversity of the 1990-91 season). I really love the way Hornby lays bare his inadequacies and shamefully admits that Arsenal beating Sp**s in a League Cup semi final was all that was required to lift him out of his 1980s malaise.

 

[Archie The Leper]

Don't know how sad this sounds, but I have the book, video & dvd, but hey I love it

 

[Soler]

Have the book and DVD.

 

[Archie The Leper]

Have the book and DVD.

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