" But the game is different, and the stadium is different and the gaping holes in my childhood and younger adulthood have now been filled - by a fulfilling full-time job that Fever Pitch helped secure, by a rich but demanding and complicated family life. I wouldn't and couldn't write this book now, but that is not to belittle it, because this inability represents loss, as well as growth. I miss the person who had the time and the energy for all that angst and passion, and if I were to write about him now, I'd probably pat him on the head and tell him that he would become older and wiser, and the whole point of this book would have been lost. "

― Nick Hornby , Fever Pitch