He told of how his love for Arsenal permeated every aspect of his life and had done so ever since his first visit to Highbury with his father. Hornby’s memoir was a rational analysis of an irrational obsession. Most importantly it galvanised football literature, its influence extending from autobiography to history to the game’s farthest backwaters in ways still recognisable today. When it was published 30 years ago, it became the first football title to win the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.
With well over a million copies sold, it has been adapted for stage and screen and in 2012 was elevated to the prestigious
Perhaps the only book to have genuinely reinvented an entire genre is Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch.
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