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The book follows Colin Irwin’s travels around Britain, his visits to matches and his discussions with seemingly anyone who will answer back. He does this with a reasonable dose of self-deprecation but on several occasions the conversations being related are with the sort of people you would very happily avoid in everyday life. These are the obsessive cases: those who adopt clubs on a whim, then travel thousands of miles weekly; the men who name sons after entire cup-winning teams; and the woman from Northampton who hasn’t missed a Liverpool game for 32 years due to an early adoration for Phil Neal. These are not normal fans but überfans. Irwin himself ponders whether these people are the heartbeat of the game or “sad nutters”. Unfortunately however, these are the images that Sky and the rest of the bandwagon have been marketing back to football as “true fans” since the 1990s. On the subject...
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