As well as recounting Arsenal's highs and lows, Hornby talks about other football clubs that play in London, and his interest in the contrasting surroundings of Cambridge United and Cambridge City, whose matches he attends while at university.įever Pitch sold over a million copies in the United Kingdom. Each chapter is about a football match that he remembers watching, most but not all at Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, and how it related to the events that were going on with his life. It consists of several chapters in chronological order, from the time the author first became a football fan as a child until his early thirties. It tells the story of the author's relationship with football, and with Arsenal Football Club in particular. The first edition was subtitled "A Fan's Life", but later paperback editions were not.įever Pitch, first published in 1992, is a memoir and Hornby's second book.
The book is the basis for two films: Fever Pitch (1997, UK) and Fever Pitch (2005, U.S.). Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life is a 1992 autobiographical essay by British author Nick Hornby.
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