March 2011
February 2011
- I'm wondering if I should take my computer on spring break. It's so fragile, seemingly. But it's the only way I'd probably be able to watch the game against Barça. HOWEVER, I'd probably watch it on Arsenal tv which posts it hours after the game.
Football...
Soundtrack
Football has meant too much to me, and come to represent too many things. See after awhile it all gets mixed up together in your head, and you can’t remember whether life’s shit because Arsenal are shit or the other way around.
- Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby - Monologue from the 1997 film starring Colin Firth
The narration to my life. =’)
Lots of Nick Hornby going around on the Arsenal blogs lately.
You don't love a team cause they have a gazillion trophies and have a star studded line up. You love a team because they play like a family. And that's what Arsenal is, a family.
chin up
Anger will ease, tears will dry and memories will fade…but we’ll move on, marching on and always be proud to be Gooners who continue to support this team!
We’re still in it for three competitions! Have faith!
It’s kind of hard when none of these people here understand soccer at all being important, let alone my team.
“The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.”
—
Nick Hornby (via shadowofemirates)
So it seems. I was just reading that book yesterday and the part that stuck out to me was going to see soccer games and the hatred involved. Going to see “entertainment” that made them angry.
“I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.”
—
Nick Hornby; The Polysyllabic Spree (via wordpainting)
One time I was talking to Mobi and I was like, Do you ever look at your
books and feel like that’s who you are?
“On matchdays I awoke with a nervous churning in the stomach, a feeling that would continue to intensify until Arsenal had taken a two-goal lead, when I would begin to relax.”
—Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch
