"Anthropologists have always had a hard time with football. The trouble is, you can only see what's on the outside. But there is an inside, believe it or not. We all have our reasons for loving things the way we do.

It's not easy to become a football fan. It takes years. But if you put in the hours you're welcomed, without question, into a new family. Except in this family, you care about the same people and hope for the same things.

Football has meant too much to me, and come to represent too many things. See, after a while, it all gets mixed up together in your head, and you can't remember whether life's shit because Arsenal are shit or the other way around.

But I don't know, perhaps, it's something you can't understand unless you belong?"

- Fever Pitch, Nick Horny (quotes from the 1997 film)