See, records have helped me to fall in love, no question. I hear something new, with a chord change that melts my guts, and before I know it I’m looking for someone, and before I know it I’ve
found her.
How do people cope? Do you have to go? What happens if you refuse on the grounds of it being just too fucking grim?
Nick HornbyYou have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.
Nick HornbyWhat better way to exorcise rejection demons than to screw the person who rejected you?
Nick HornbyThere aren’t too many candlelit dinners and second honeymoons, I can tell you. We’re beyond all that. We’re good friends more than anything.
Nick HornbyIf you’ve found the right person, you’ve found the right person, it doesn’t matter how old you are.
Nick HornbyWe can’t go on apologizing all our lives, you know.
Nick HornbyComplaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.
Nick HornbyMost of this fixation was easy to explain. Brady was a midfield player, a passer, and Arsenal haven’t really had one since he left. It might surprise those who have a rudimentary grasp of the rules of the game to learn that a First Division football team can try to play football without a player who can pass the ball, but it no longer surprises the rest of us: passing went out of fashion just after silk scarves and just before inflatable bananas. Managers, coaches and therefore players now favour alternative methods of moving the ball from one part of the field to another, the chief of which is a sort of wall of muscle strung across the half-way line in order to deflect the ball in the general direction of the forwards. Most, indeed all, football fans regret this. I think I can speak for all of us when I say that we used to like passing, that we felt that on the whole it was a good thing. It was nice to watch, football’s prettiest accessory (a good player could pass to a team-mate we hadn’t seen, or find an angle we wouldn’t have thought of, so there was a pleasing geometry to it), but managers seemed to feel that it was a lot of trouble, and therefore stopped bothering to produce any players who could do it. There are still a couple of passers in England, but then, there are still a number of blacksmiths.
Nick HornbyManchester City striker Mario Balotelli sets his own house on fire, apparently after letting off fireworks in his bathroom. Two days later City beat United 6–1, and after scoring the first goal Balotelli revealed a T-shirt bearing the question ‘Why always me?’ This was presumably intended to be rhetorical, but Cheshire Fire and Rescue service, who were at Balotelli’s house until 2.45 a.m., could presumably have provided an answer.
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