![]() ![]() ![]() 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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