Hornby questions whether this is healthy for the long-term future of the game. "My impression is that most kids go now as they would go to the theatre, a treat, something they would see three or four times a year." "You can't do that any more," Hornby tells the programme's presenter, John Wilson, the son of Arsenal goalkeeper Bob. Cheap tickets meant Hornby was able to feed his addiction, but now he questions whether this weekly football fix is still possible. In Fever Pitched: Twenty Years On, to be broadcast on Radio 4 tomorrow afternoon, Hornby recalls that in the 1970s he paid 15p to join the crowd in the north stand at Highbury, Arsenal's former ground in north London. But now, coming up to the 20th anniversary of its original publication, when it will be reissued as a Penguin Modern Classic, Hornby questions whether the youthful addiction he had for his club can still be found among today's supporters, largely because of the game's gentrification.
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