Fever Pitch'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book - inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' Jim White, Independent 'Whether you are interested in football or not, this is tears-running-down-your-face funny, read-bits-out-loud-to-complete-strangers funny, but also highly perceptive and honest about Hornby's obsession and the state of the game. Fever Pitchis not only the best football book ever written, it's the funniest book of the year' Nicholas Lezard, GQ 'Fever Pitchtranscends the mundane and the sporty to say something about the way we live' Steve Grant, Time Out |
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