“(in those days, before Gazza, before cynical and meaningless pre-season tournaments which somehow still offer a methadone alternative to the real competitions… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Absurdly, I haven't yet got around to saying that football is a wonderful sport, but of course it is. Goals have a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows the song that Millwall fans sing, to the tune of „Sailing”: 'No one likes us/No one likes us/No one likes… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of people around me, is… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Football really felt like a private thing when I was in my teens because it wasn't on television, for a start, apart… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What I needed more than anything was a place where unfocused unhappiness could thrive, where I could be still and worry and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Dialogue in the works of autobiography is quite naturally viewed with some suspicion. How on earth can the writer remember verbatim conversations… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“My companions for the afternoon were affable, welcoming middle-aged men in their late thirties and early forties who simply had no conception… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have the same interests as women. Well, apart from football and music, obviously. I've always had as many female friends as… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“When they – I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of the day… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Read any women's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty or thirty… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
