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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

Ferris is a rapist and dumbass

A funny chapter of the Folsom’s entering their new life in the WitSec Program and stupid as sin Marshall Ferris.

I love the end of chapter 12 with Richie and Armand’s Degas (of the Degas brothers) and Ritchie is talking about his first kill, which is actually his third. Both ritchie and the bird are doing Donna. Ritchie says they should do her together.

This is when Leo is cooking. The Colsons talk to the FBI and it calms Wayne down. After hi speech on the “porch”. Armand beds Donna. Ritchie stabbing Donna’s vinyl counter is a great visual. Armand gets the biz from a gas station Attendant. Armand tells Ritchie about it. Cool out. Ritchie goes to the Colsons mad shotguns the house

Armand Dega and brothers. Tarantino has the Vega brothers

It’s a happy functional hetero marriage vs a dysfunctional gay marriage

I don’t love Carmen and Wayne but I can’t get enough of Richie and Armand

Chris in Paraguay is successful with his move against Lieu’s. Ana is gonna start her own business and Chris is her man. Part 6 jumps to 2000 with Hanna in LA

Crazy action. Neil takes the Chinese motel, barely. And returns to find Wardell holding Elisa hostage. She dies. Now back to Paraguay for part 5

Neil and crew follow the Mexican drug cartel across the border. They are scoping out the place because they will rob it. Svobada show up. I don’t know who that is but should I?

I love where this book went. Ciudad del Este. Criminal Disneyland. Chris is aligned with the Lius and went undercover and fell in love with Ana, the grad school Lou daughter and criminal mastermind. Now for part 4 and back to 1988

At page 192 is a great car chase gun fight that reads like film storyboards

Onto part 3. Back to Chris in the 90s working for the Chinese in Paraguay