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Fever Pitch Page #4
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- Year:
- 1997
- 102 min
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then they f*** off!
Shut up!
Did you get it?
Yes.
Can I see it?
It's in me purse.
Brilliant. Thanks, Mum.
I've got to do
an extra hour tomorrow.
Left the office at twelve,
I didn't get back till three.
They asked you
what end you wanted?
No. I said, "One, please"
and they gave me that.
How comes you got a ticket
in the Reading end?
Had to get it off a tout.
How much did that cost you?
Fiver.
D'you live in Islington?
Well, near, yeah.
How near is near?
Place called Maidenhead.
Maidenhead?
Maidenhead in Berkshire?
Two miles down the road?
More like six.
Bit nearer Reading than Arsenal.
You should be
supporting your local team.
Look...
Excuse me.
Just seen someone I know.
And was the ticket
all right, in the end?
I was standing with a load
Then I found Jenkins and them.
So you stood with Jenkins?
You must've been sick
when they equalised.
I heard it on the radio.
The place went mad.
Just had to stand and take it.
Good old Pat Rice, though.
- He never scores, Pat Rice.
- First of the season.
We're good in the Cups,
aren't we?
McNab won't play.
Bertie Mee wouldn't risk him.
How long will it take
to get to Birmingham?
Couple of hours. Maybe three.
But we'll be there by two?
Oh, sure.
How about if we did something
different this afternoon?
How d'you mean?
to meet Jane and
the kids for lunch.
Then maybe take 'em to the zoo
or pictures... somewhere.
They've been over this week
visiting their grandmother.
They'd love to meet you.
You don't mean instead
of the game, do you?
We couldn't do both.
You didn't get
any tickets, did you?
The tickets are
waiting for us there.
So you're telling me
you've got tickets
but you wanna go and see
"The Jungle Book"?
You're teasing me, aren't you?
We don't have to go to Arsenal
every time I'm in London, do we?
I thought we were
beyond that stage.
We'll never be
beyond that stage.
# Out here in the fields
# I fight for my meals
# I get my back into my living
# I don't need to fight
# To prove I'm right
# I don't need to be forgiven
I thought you said
you'd look after me.
You said you didn't need
looking after.
You're gonna get
Gonna get your f***ing heads
kicked in!
F***ing jump
for the ball, Niall!
Come on, Arsenal!
Do you want this or not?
'Everton nil, Norwich nil. '
You'll get used to it.
I don't wanna get used to it.
What's going on at
the Liverpool/Forest game?
There's trouble or something.
They ain't kicked off yet.
There. Heard about Hillsborough?
This guy was just saying.
Bloke up there reckons
there's people hurt.
Jesus. What happened?
I dunno.
You all right?
Yeah, I'm fine.
Arsenal!
Arsenal!
Arsenal!
Arsenal!
'Semi-final
'between Nottingham Forest
and Liverpool
'at the Hillsborough ground
in Sheffield.
'It's feared that at least
'were crushed to death.
'Hundreds were forced
on to the pitch. '
It's just so stupid.
'The Liverpool manager,
Kenny Dalglish,
'and his opposite number,
Brian Clough,
'were clearly appalled
by the scenes.
'There's so far
nothing to suggest... '
So stupid.
'.. that what happened
'was the result
They must've realised
something like this
One afternoon on the North Bank
and you're an expert.
Well, that's it, then.
That's what?
You can't go back now, can you?
'Course we will.
How can you?
Because...
because everyone else will.
Because the game will go on.
They'll even replay this one.
This doesn't change anything.
I just don't get you.
No, I know you don't.
It's not just me you don't get.
It's any of us.
I hope the rest of them
aren't as selfish
and manipulative as you.
What's selfish about
watching a football team?
It's all selfish, all of it!
about how your mum's cats
are called after great players
and how she drove
through the snow
to get you a Cup ticket.
You stopped seeing your father
when you didn't need him
to take you
to the games any more.
And we're supposed to understand
because football's football.
When we think of Paul,
we think of Arsenal.
It makes me sick!
I hated this afternoon.
D'you wanna know why?
Because if you didn't
give a toss about Arsenal,
what are you left with?
You pay 5 to stand
on a lump of concrete.
You can't see anything,
you're not even safe.
And you can't complain
because that would be
letting the lads down.
That'd show
you didn't care enough.
Well, at least
we care about something.
At least we're not in
night after night
worrying about our lesson plans.
Whether a Scale 3
might come up in Bournemouth.
Perhaps one day you'll learn
to care about something
you can't tick.
Thanks.
I'm sorry.
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 sh*t
because Arsenal's sh*t
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?
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
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
There's some stuff
And some stuff
that just won't go away.
And some stuff
that you couldn't ignore
even if you wanted to.
Hello.
'It's me. '
Do you know what time it is?
'Yeah, and I'm sorry. '
Listen, are you pregnant?
Are these for me?
Yeah.
Flowers.
I suppose they were,
once upon a time.
Thank you.
Come on, Jo.
Oh.
And chocolates!
It's come just at
the right time for me.
It's come just at
the right time for me.
I was gettin' bored with
that pub and football stuff.
You can only spend so much time
playing Subbuteo.
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