![]() ![]() ![]() A fairly late convert to all things feminist, Fowles writes from a position blind to the recent growth in the popularity of women’s soccer, but his rather crude Freudianism may serve as an interesting - if tangential - comment on The Football Factory, more recently described by Hugh MacDonald in The Glasgow Herald as ‘Fever Pitch with testosterone and eight pints of lager’. ![]() John King’s first novel The Football Factory was published some four years after Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch in 1996, but in spirit it seems to belong to a slightly earlier period in English cultural history and its obsession with a game once described by John Fowles as long ago as the I960’s as ‘twenty-two penises in pursuit of a vagina’ (150). ![]()
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