Fever Pitch: Chapter 55 Summary & Analysis

Nick’s depression is at its worst, and he is in therapy. He doesn’t know why he feels so bad, since he has friends and family and a job, but he feels inexplicably cursed. Nick goes straight from his psychiatrist’s office to see Tottenham v Arsenal. It’s a great game in which Arsenal makes a shocking comeback and wins. Nick is thrilled, and in the aftermath of this game he feels cured from his depression. That day, he becomes a mere Arsenal fan instead of an Arsenal “lunatic.”