“. . . the passions the game induces consume everything, including tact and common sense. If it is possible to attend and enjoy a football match sixteen days after nearly a hundred people died at one . . . then perhaps it is a little easier to understand the culture and circumstances that allowed these deaths to happen. Nothing ever matters, apart from football.”
Regarding the Liverpool-Forest tragedy at Hillsborough in 1989; Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch (New York: Riverhead, 1992), 217.
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Posted on 19 October 2011