I am Your Sunshine

I was reading Nick Hornby’s (a die hard gooner; still, painfully I have to admit that he’s one of my favorite writer) The Polysyllabic Spree, a collection of his monthly reading column, and in the October piece he mentioned that he’d read Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller. He went,

It was moving along nicely until a character starts talking about football. He tells a teaching colleague that he’s been to see Arsenal, and that “Arsenal won Liverpool 3-0.” … And I’m positive that no one has ever said “Arsenal won Liverpool 3-0” in the entire history of either Arsenal FC or the English language. “Beat”, “thrashed”, “did” or “done”, “trounced”, “thumped”, “shat all over”, “walloped”, etc., yes; “won”, no. And I think that my dismay and disbelief then led me to question other things, and the fabric of the novel started to unravel a little.

He then said that it was not just the language, but the facts about Arsenal

說真的, 從九零年到現在(2003) Arsenal 哪次在 Highbury 擊敗 Liverpool了?
3-0? The poor lady had no chance!

Hi-la-ri-ous!

Having read Selina’s review of Notes (the same paragraph was mentioned) made it even more fun to read Hornby’s piece. XD