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Read the book Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby.
It's pretty much a blueprint on how to be an Arsenal fan (and how to deal with the inevitable heartbreak that entails).
Honestly?
Nick Hornby.
Inverting the Pyramid
Soccernomics
Fever Pitch
Alex Ferguson
I am the secret footballer
The numbers game
Fever Pitch
Amazed no one has mentioned it. Really helped me see fandom in a different light. Great Arsenal book!
If you want to learn a little bit of context and history of what English football is all about Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch is a great book written from the perspective of a growing up to be life-long Arsenal fan. Good sense of humor and excellent writing, not some boring paean to sports-fandom. Even my mother like the book and she doesn't know anything about soccer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fever_pitch
http://www.amazon.com/Fever-Pitch-Nick-Hornby/dp/1573226882/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254612517&sr=1-1
Oh and Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby is required reading.
> When America rapes the Olympics every 4 years and embarrasses the athletes of other, lesser countries (often on their own turf)
Only a recent phenomenon. The gold medal run from 1996 to 2004 was impressive, but the Soviets have long been dominant in that field.
> the country is allowed to enjoy its superior sports on its own time.
How does one define superior?
>America doesn't give two shits about soccer.
TV ratings and attendance says differently.
>Soccer is a boring
Personal opinion, but I must ask, why do you find it boring? Lack of scoring? Then I assume you consider a perfect game or a defensive battle in American football to be an affront to nature. Perhaps you lack the intelligence to understand the overall tactics of the game to fully embrace it. People overseas find American football incredibly boring because it lacks fluidity, but upon learning the game grow to respect it.
>simple minded game
Pitcher throw, hitter hit and run, players catch
Put ball in hoop
Put puck in net
etc.
> designed for poor Europeans
Then what was American football designed for? The two sports had very similar rules and roots deep into the 1890's.
>feel a sense of belonging and purpose connected their respective clubs
Incorrect, soccer was encouraged as a recreational game between organizations. Some were athletic clubs filled with influential individuals, some were universities, others were clubs at manufacturing plants created by workers to utilize their day off. Over time people became willing to pay to watch.
>Which is why they have sing a songs
I assume you refuse to applaud and cheer when a pitcher is on the second strike with two outs in an inning. Or make noise when your American football team is on defense.
>get drunk as fuck with each other while absentmindedly watching grown men
So I assume you don't watch college football
>flail and flop along a grass field
Happens in every sport
>cheering their beta hearts out when they manage to draw a card.
I would recommend not using a phone to post, autocorrect can be so silly. In the sport of soccer a draw is worth one point. Now if a club is vastly overmatched by a superior opponent, but that club manages a draw on the road, the fans would be happy has the draw is worth one point. In the NHL it used to be similar until they introduced the ridiculous shoot-out. But that's what's nice about soccer is that the match is less than two hours long. Extra-innings and extensive overtime periods can be incredibly boring.
>There is no strategy
Ya.....no
>no heart
Ya......no
>no skill
I assume you have never heard of Messi
>it will never be embraced in United States
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Also Fever Pitch by the same author. http://www.amazon.com/Fever-Pitch-Nick-Hornby/dp/1573226882
Read Fever Pitch for one. Also Arsènal: The Making of a Modern Superclub is helpful. Going back through Arseblog's archives and the matchday threads on r/gunners couldn't hurt either.
http://www.amazon.com/Fever-Pitch-Nick-Hornby/dp/1573226882/
http://www.amazon.com/Arsenal-The-Making-Modern-Superclub/dp/1907637311
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1573226882
Warning: this will make you an Arsenal fan.
http://www.amazon.com/Fever-Pitch-Nick-Hornby/dp/1573226882
A nice read it's a book about the authors life as an Arsenal fan. Talks about the games and supporter life in the stands.
A must read for all football fans imo.
Definitely Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson
It's a bit dry, but it's a great history of the tactics of football, and how they & the game in general spread across the world.
Even though it's about Arsenal, Fever Pitch by Nick Hornsby does a good job describing what it's like to be a fan.
I haven't read this yet, but have heard very good things about Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer by David Winner
Those are the ones that jump to my head immediately.