Fever Pitch

Describe some of the ways in which Hornby’s mother nurtures rather than discourages his passion for football.

Analyze the role that living with two women, his mother and his sister, might have had on Hornby’s attraction to football.

Describe and analyze some of the primary reasons why Hornby decides to move on from football in the year before he starts college.

Compare and contrast Hornby’s fandom of Arsenal to Cambridge United, the lower-division club he begins following in college.

Describe and analyze the role that Hornby’s loss of identity as an Arsenal fan plays in his depression during the 1980s.

Explain how Hornby uses the technique of foreshadowing as it relates to the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters.

Hornby argues that the crime of some of the Liverpool fans who were arrested following Heysel was, in a sense, simply being English. What does he mean by this?

In what ways does Hornby criticize the business of football and the clubs following Hillsborough?