Across
- 3. Nick’s defining personality trait
- 5. Extreme emotional loyalty to a team
- 8. Arsenal’s manager during the 1989 season
- 9. Games played at Highbury
- 10. Symbol of fan identity
- 12. Violent fan culture Nick observes
- 14. Belief in the team despite logic
- 17. Nick’s obsession with numbers and results
- 18. Period when Nick first falls in love with football
- 20. Arsenal’s main rival in the final match
- 22. Rare but powerful feeling after victories
- 23. Belief that behavior affects match results
- 24. Phase where fandom intensifies emotionally
- 27. Author and narrator of the memoir
- 29. Meaning Nick finds in the 1989 win
- 31. Feeling football gives Nick
- 34. Nick’s lifelong roll
- 35. club Nick supports obsessively
- 38. Family event that deepens Nick’s fandom
- 39. Shaped by supporting Arsenal
- 40. Central obsession shaping Nick’s life
- 41. Strained by Nick’s football obsession
- 42. Common feeling of supporting Arsenal
- 44. Region where Arsenal is based
Down
- 1. University Nick attends
- 2. Scorer of the last-minute title-winning goal
- 4. Bond among Arsenal supporters
- 6. Matches Nick travels to watch
- 7. Title referencing intense obsession and climax
- 11. Scheduled matches that shape Nick’s calendar
- 13. Football organizes Nick’s life experiences
- 15. Explored through football culture
- 16. Match-day routines Nick follows
- 19. Shared suffering of fandom
- 21. Trophy Arsenal wins in dramatic fashion
- 25. Songs sung by supporters
- 26. Collective emotional experience
- 28. Arsenal’s historic home stadium
- 30. Country where the story takes place
- 32. eighty nine Year of Arsenal’s dramatic title win
- 33. Genre of the book
- 36. How Nick describes fandom
- 37. Stadium where the 1989 title was decided
- 43. Emotion that keeps Nick loyal