Fever Pitch Page #5

Come on, Ben! Get back with him!

Sorry, Ted.

I haven't fired you

with enthusiasm.

It's a lot of work.

What do I wanna

do more work for?

More money?

I've got enough to pay my rent,

enough for my season ticket

and a couple of records a month.

Got no family.

I'd like you to think about it.

Sorry. There's nothing

to think about.

Come on, Sam! Put it away!

YES!

Why aren't adults

supposed to go mad

about anything?

You've got to keep a lid on it.

And if you don't,

then people

are apparently entitled

to say what they like.

You haven't grown up,

you're a moron.

Your conversation

is trivial and boorish.

You can't express

your emotional needs.

You can't relate

to your children

and you die -

lonely and miserable.

But you know, what the hell?

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Not on your own.

How many more times?

You'll have to wait

until your father's over.

So I'll get to Highbury

five times a year?

It's not my fault

your father lives abroad.

Mum, they play 21 times a year

plus Cup matches. That's...

Mum, why is Crossroads a motel?

What d'you mean?

Why isn't it just a hotel?

29! If they get to

the League Cup semi-final,

the FA Cup quarter-final...

You can take your car there.

You forgot Europe.

I don't know how many

games last season.

Oh, yeah.

That's another five games.

That hotel in Devon,

we took our car.

Every round is home and away.

We had to leave it

in the car park.

Fives into thirty-five

goes seven.

One-seventh of all

the home games. Pathetic!

Paul, in a motel,

you drive a car into a room!

Say you only went to one-seventh

your Choral Society

They'd throw you out.

Arsenal won't throw you out.

They want your money.

I've looked it up.

I can catch the 12.53

to Paddington,

be at Paddington by 1.36,

get the Circle and District

and Metropolitan Line

to Kings Cross.

Then it's Caledonian Road,

Holloway Road,

Arsenal, third stop.

Be there 2.15, easy.

For Christ's sake,

go if you want to.

Yes! Thanks, Mum.

Charlie, Charlie,

Charlie's the King of Highbury.

Don't come runnin' to me

if you get stabbed to death.

I won't.

Jimmy Husband! Brilliant.

It's not easy

to become a football fan.

It takes years.

But if you put in the hours,

you're welcomed,

without question,

into a new family.

Except in this family,

you care about the same people

and hope for the same things.

What's childish about that?

A terrible foul

by McLintock on Rocastle.

He'll be lucky

to stay on the pitch.

It wasn't THAT bad.

It was mistiming,

it wasn't malicious.

Bollocks!

So, that's a free kick

to 1989 Arsenal

and... Davis takes it.

And...

Goal!

And that's 1989 Arsenal four,

1971 Arsenal, nil.

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