Fever pitch (1997)

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Based on Nick Hornby's best-selling autobiography, Fever Pitch is set during the 1988/89 football season. Paul Ashworth (Colin Firth, star of Pride and Prejudice), an English teacher in his thirties, is passionate about Arsenal. As the season and the film progress, the club has a chance of sinning the league for the first time in 18 years. Meanwhile, his on-off romance with fellow teacher and non-football fan, Sarah, mirrors the Gunners' fluctuating season. The romance is dealt a near fatal blow by a home defeat against Derby. Arsenal, Paul and Sarah have one more chance - but it's a long shot. Horby's romantic comedy received considerable critical acclaim and appeals equally to men, women, football fans and the football-perplxed.

meet paul, an english teacher in his mid-thirties, a bachelor, a man with an obsession - the arsenal soccer team. midway through the season paul meets sarah, whose propensity for severity, dourness and single-minded professionalism reminds him of the arsenal's manager. paul thinks sarah is too uptight, sarah thinks paul is an insane, obsessed fanatic - and they embarrk on a relationship as tumultuous as the arsenals' winning streak.