“. . . I still go to every home game, and feel the same tensions and elations and glooms that I have always felt, I now understand them to have an entirely separate identity whose success and failure has no relationship with my own. That night, I stopped being an Arsenal lunatic and relearnt how to be a fan, still cranky, and still dangerously obsessive, but only a fan nonetheless.”
Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch (New York: Riverhead, 1992), 174.
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Posted on 19 October 2011