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Terracing is a style of a sports stadium where spectators stand on overlapping steps surrounding the field. Terracing was typical in the UK until the 1990s, when hooliganism and violence forced most stadiums to convert to an all-seater system
Terracing Quotes in Fever Pitch
The Fever Pitch quotes below are all either spoken by Terracing or refer to Terracing. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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The art deco splendour of the West Stand was not possible without Dad’s deeper pockets, so Rat and I stood in the Schoolboys’ Enclosure, peering at the game through the legs of the linesmen.
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Chapter 9
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The simple truth is that obsessions just aren’t funny, and that obsessives don’t laugh. But there’s a complicated truth here as well: I don’t think I was very happy, and the problem with being a thirteen-year-old depressive is that when the rest of life is so uproarious, which it invariably is, there is no suitable context for the gloom.
Chapter 20
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I wanted to do it, but at the same time I was, pathetically, a little afraid. My only rite of passage then, involved standing on one piece of concrete as opposed to another; but the fact that I had made myself do something that I only half-wanted to do, and that it all turned out OK… this was important to me.
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Chapter 37
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So I feel responsible, but not regretful: If I had not been able to secure his allegiance to the cause, if he had decided to look for his footballing pain elsewhere, then our relationship would have been of an entirely different and possibly much cooler nature.
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Terracing Term Timeline in Fever Pitch
The timeline below shows where the term Terracing appears in Fever Pitch. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 20: Graduation Day (Arsenal v Ipswich 14.10.72)
...from the Schoolboy’s section of the stands. He is nervous to switch to the adult terraces, and he plans the change for the whole season. He is afraid of being “revealed”...
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Chapter 21: The Whole Package (Arsenal v Coventry, 4.11.72)
After Nick starts watching games from the North Bank, an adult terrace, he also begins to share the crowd’s rage when any away team scores a goal....
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Chapter 42: On the Pitch (Arsenal v West Ham, 1.5.82)
...he is very lucky that Highbury doesn’t have a fence separating the field from the terraces. A few years after this game, many people die at a Liverpool game when the...
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Chapter 60: My Ankle (Arsenal v Wimbledon, 19.9.87)
...the game from outside because Nick can’t make it up the stairs to their usual terrace. Nick feels that seeing the game is worth it.
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