![]() ![]() Nick Hornby turns fifteen and moves to the North Bank, where Arsenal's most vocal supporters stand. Leeds wins 1-0, and Nick doesn't understand how he could go through this again. Nick also goes to see a final cup match in 1972. Before a 1972 cup semifinal match, Nick meets one of the Arsenal players, Bob McNab. He realizes he was obsessed and obsessions aren't funny but doesn't learn to relax at games until he is older. ![]() He sees that he looks very serious watching the game, more than the other children around him. As a teenager, Nick attends an away match for Arsenal, and after watching the replay, learns he was on camera. They can't afford to sit in the good seats in the West Stand, so they stand throughout the games in a section called the Schoolboy's Enclosure. Nick's dad moves out of the country, and Nick begins going to games with a boy known as Rat, the older brother of one of his classmates. He feels uneasy when he watches the games and learns that despair and disappointment are familiar feelings to football fans. Nick begins going to every game he can, and his interest soon becomes an obsession. His father takes Nick to his first Arsenal game as a way to bond after leaving Nick's mother for another woman. ![]() ![]() Fever Pitch is a nonfiction memoir by Nick Hornby, an English writer, that details his obsession with the Arsenal football team. ![]()
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