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“It was a pissa”

I assumed this chapter would end like a Shanghai-las song but it didn’t. Just an account of a party with Tommy his knocked up bride, and Spooks new bike. Good times

“The Queen is Dead” is a tragic car wreck of a chapter. Poor Georgette’s star spangled thong is a lasting detail. And it ends with her realizing she didn’t fuck Vinnie, she fucked Tony and then she dies of a morphine overdose. Yikes

This is the most important chapter for me and dealing with my lot of being an Arsenal fan. “Typical Arsenal”

“Arsenal aren’t a team that inspires affection or admiration in other football fans; we share our pleasures with nobody but ourselves”

Nick’s thoughts on Hillsborough

Gus Caesar sucks and the difference between sport and the “arts”

“Welcome To England” the hooligans of football and nicks theory on where and how those reputations are created. Wspeciallly in the desperate international football of England -976-1990

“No Apology Necessary” Finally! A chapter on the beauty of football and why it is special

“The Match” chapter is a great and interesting time capsule about football and TV and TV rights

The chapter “Bananas”! About racism in football in Nicks life as an Arsenal fan. Arsenal is multicultural. But Liverpool and Everton fans are racist asses. By Arsenal has its problems of racism and especially antisemitism.

“The heart of the book” nick goes to a psychiatrist and Arsenal beat Tottenham is a little cup semi final.

Onto 1986-1992. Maybe we’ll win something?

What would you do if your offspring weren’t Arsenal fans? The petty horror.

PART OF ThE GAME Nick realizes he is lucky. 6 years before Hillsbourh he could have been killed by the crowd

Arsenal-esque! Finally, Nick talks about Arsenal being hated by the nation. We can do no right. But we are punk rock, they wind us up and we show ourselves.

Great chapter on Liam Brady. He was a passer and mid field intellectual. Nick talks football intelligence and humor and getting over a break up like he got over Brady’s transfer

Lovely chapter about your life being placed in seasons. Ie 69/70, 79/80…and listening to Football on the radio. And replacing it with the Buzzcocks singles album

Nick makes a bargain. Thatcher wins but Arsenal win the FA cup May 12 1979 agains ManU in extra time. Thatcher reigned for over 12 years

Talking Superman. Arsenal wants to be mistaken for “man I, tott, Liverpool. We’ve never been in that mounds we have always been too grey, too suspicious of anyone with an ego but we don’t like to admit it’

Pat 1 ends hilariously. He is 18 and to understand Camus and sleep with intellectuals , than Arsenal has got to go.

An interesting chapter about the working class being priced out and replaced by upper middle class and “executive suites” At the cost of atmosphere. People pay for the working class enthusiasm and anger and atmosphere. “Who will pay for an executive suite of a stadium full of executives?

A beautiful chapter where Arsenal become Total Football for 3 games. Win 2 and lose miserably in 3rd. At the same time Nick meet his dad’s new family in France with a swimming pool. It is rich with teen angst and confusion and conflict

Greatest honest football “loss” story ever. Arsenal losses and Nick is devastated. 3 Leeds fans console him only for 3 Arsenal suedeheads to come and fight the 3 Leeds fans

Charlie George! superstar! How many goals have you scored so far?

Charlie George! Superstar! Walks like a woman and he wears a bra!

I was chained to Arsenal and my dad was chained to me, and there was no way out for any of us.

Here we go. This is dense

Carmen did it. In her underwear soaked in deer piss. Armand had the shotgun but she grabbed his gun and shot him in the gut. Armand thought she was the girl for him. But he also liked the idea of taking Donna to Graceland. Was Donna dead? Probably.

Brilliant chapter built around Donna talking Elvis. His apostles, his plane and Graceland and numerology. Armand is done with Ritchie and they have a stand off