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Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby

As a teenager his father takes him to football games, where he is particularly impressed with the way that adults are allowed to shout WANKER! as loudly as they wanted without attracting any attention. But what impressed me most was just how much most of the men around me hated, really hated, being there. Within minutes of the kick-off there was real anger... as the game went on , the anger turned to outrage then seemed to curdle into sullen discontent ... the natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

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Girls are much quirkier than boys ... most of us (boys) were defined only by the number and extent of our interests. Some boys had more records than others, and some knew more about football ... we had passions instead of personalities, predictable and uninteresting passions at that .. I have met women who knew quite a lot about music, but I have never met a woman with a huge and ever-expanding and neurotically alphabeticised record collection ... I am not saying that the anally retentive woman does not exist .... but when women have obsessions, they are usually about people.

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