“But after a while, when conversation started to flag, they wanted to know why the game hadn’t started and what the Englishmen were saying, and it wasn’t until then that I understood what was going on. So I had to explain to a group of beautiful young Italian boys and girls that in Belgium, the English hooligans had caused the deaths of thirty-eight people, most of them Juventus supporters.”
Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch (New York: Riverhead, 1992), 146-7.
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Posted in: Death, Sin (awareness of)
Posted on 19 October 2011