memorable quote from Fever Pitch(1997) 2

Football has meant too much to me and come to represent too many things. After a while, it all gets mixed up together in your head. You can't remember whether life's shit because Arsenal's shit or the other way round. I've been to watch far too many games, spent far too much money. Fretted about Arsenal when I should have been fretting about something else. I've asked too much

of the people I love. OK, I accept all that. Perhaps it's something you can't understand unless you belong. 

But what about this...? Three minutes to go and you're two-one up in a semi-final. You look around and see thousands of faces contorted with fear and hope and worry. Everyone lost. Everything else gone out of their heads. Then the whistle blows and everyone goes spare. And just for those few minutes, you're at the centre of the whole world. And the fact that you care so much, that the noise you've made has been such a crucial part of it, is what makes it special. You've been as important as the players and if you hadn't been there, who'd have been bothered about football, really? 

The great thing is, it comes round again and again. There's always another season. If you lose the Cup Final in May, there's the third round to look forward to in January. What's wrong with that? It's actually pretty comforting if you think about it. But every now and then - not very often, but it happens - you catch a glimpse of a world that doesn't work like that. A world that doesn't stop in May and begin again in August. There's some stuff that just never comes back. And some stuff that just won't go away. And some stuff that you couldn't ignore even if you wanted to.