Book: Fever Pitch
Quotes of Book: Fever Pitch
My companions for the afternoon were affable, welcoming middle-aged men in their late thirties and early forties who simply had no conception of the import of the afternoon for the rest of us. To them it was an afternoon out, a fun thing to do on a Saturday afternoon; if I were to meet them again, they would, I think, be unable to recall the score that afternoon, or the scorer {at half-time they talked office politics}, and in a way I envied them their indifference. Perhaps there is an argument that says Cup Final tickets are wasted on the fans, in the way that youth is wasted on the young; these men, who knew just enough about football to get them through the afternoon, actively enjoyed the occasion, its drama and its noise and its momentum, whereas I hated every minute of it, as I hated every Cup Final involving Arsenal." book-quotefootballNen sajnáltam se a csapatot, se a többi szurkolót, csakis magamat sajnáltam, és most már tudom, hogy a futballbánat mindig ilyen. Amikor a csapatunk kikap a Wembleyben, a kollégáinkra vagy az osztálytársainkra gondolunk, akikkel hétfő reggel szembe kell néznünk, és az eufóriára, amelytől az élet megfosztott bennünket, és ilyenkor megfogadjuk, hogy soha az életben nem leszünk még egyszer ilyen sebezhetők. book-quote
