Fever Pitch

All-seater is a term used to refer to sports stadiums in which tickets are sold for every seat, and thus every spectator has a seat. All-seater stadiums and arenas are commonplace in virtually every sport in the United States, but throughout the United Kingdom and Europe it was common for many stadiums to have standing-room-only sections known as terraces. Because of a number of disasters in which fans were crushed to death in the 1970s and 1980s, the Taylor Report, published in 1990, recommended that stadiums in the United Kingdom convert to all-seaters.

The Double is a term in the English Football League, and now the Premier League, that refers to a club that wins both the league title and the Football Association Cup in the same season. In the 120-year history of the English Football League/Premier League, it has only been accomplished 12 times. At the time of his writing, Hornby points out that when Arsenal accomplished The Double in 1971 ,only three teams in the entire 20th century had done it. Following the publication of Fever Pitch in 1992, however, Arsenal accomplished it two more times, in 1998 and 2002.