Fever Pitch

Perhaps the best, no, the only response to a recent study that concluded if men showed as much commitment to their wives as they do their football teams then divorce rate would halve, is to point you in the direction of British film “FEVER PITCH”, written by Nick Hornby, which, pretty much addresses this very issue……

Fever Pitch was written, according to Hornby, not just for fully paid-up football fanatics, but also 'anyone who has wondered what it must be like to be this way'. And it does manage to be far more than just a football flick; rather it is about the nature of obsession (football just happens to be the one under the spotlight in this case), this inconvenience which the 35-year old Hornby admits to carrying everywhere with him still, and which he tends to bring into situations where it simply doesn't belong. He uses his feelings about the game to explore questions of masculinity, of identity, of growing up, and doesn't shy from looking (albeit with a wry humour rather than any real sense of regret) at the damage such an obsession can do.

View the trailer here

I leave you with the one quote from the film that stands out in context of the recent study mentioned earlier….

In attempting to plan a holiday……….

Sarah: What about………Saturday October the ninth. Lets go away somewhere.

Paul: I haven’t got next season’s fixture list yet.

Sarah: Because you know you’ll be seeing Arsenal next year don’t you? But you can’t say for sure you’ll be seeing me.

Your getting no further comment form me……