Excerpts from The Believer: Sports Books I Have Read or Written

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A one-off, sports-issue special.

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Books read:

• Football Against the Enemy: How the World’s Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power—Simon Kuper
• Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football—David Winner
• The Season—Helen Garner

Books written:

• Fever Pitch—me

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My book Fever Pitch, a memoir about my then twenty-four-year relationship with Arsenal Football Club, came out in 1992.