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Fever Pitch

by Nick Hornby

The inner life of the football fan; how men can be thinking about football all the time – that it’s always there.

“Nick Hornby doesn’t revel in, ‘Oh I’m such a football geek, isn’t that funny?’ He treats it as something suspect.”

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Simon Kuper, Journalist

“Sporting fandom is very interesting philosophically: it’s a case of partiality, partisanship, valuing something when you can see that what you value isn’t going to be valued by other people.”

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David Papineau, Philosopher

“In about 1990 there was this sea change in the way people expressed themselves about football – more emotionally. Nick’s book sets the stall out for that.”

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David Baddiel, Comedians & Humorist

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