11 year old Nick Hornby is not interested in football at all.
11 year old Nick Hornby is not interested in football at all.
When he is 11 years his parents are separated. He stayes with his mom, and doesn´t meet his dad every day.
When he is 11 years his parents are separated. He stayes with his mom, and doesn´t meet his dad every day.
One day, Nick's father take him to his first ever football match. And it is between Arsenal and Stoke. The young boy falls in love with the London team.
Arsenal becomes his life. All decisions he is about to make, depends on the club and their games.
There are not many Arsenal supporters on his school in Maidenhead, and he starts getting bullied.
When Nick is 15 he sees a old man die by heart attack.
As he gets older, he starts seeing girls, but there is no room for girls in his life. Arsenal is his only love.
After school he goes to college. He is educating to become a teacher at the college at Cambridge.
He can't aford to watch Arsenal every week, so he starts to watch fourth division team Cambridge United.
Hornby must have a training year as a school teacher, and he does it in London.
But when he completes his education, he starts as a teacher in Cambridge, the city he studied in.
As he becomes a experienced teacher, he also has more time for women, although he doesn't get in a relationship, except from the one with Arsenal.
After the horrible Hillsborough accident, Hornby starts asking questions and is a bit terrified. But he doesnt' stop loving football at all.
In the middle of the 80s he starts getting new friends who is not interested in football. It is difficult to him when they don't know anything about his favourite team.
In 1989, Arsenal wins the championship. This is the best time of his life so far.
