Fever Pitch Each chapter is about a football match that he remembers watching, most but not all at Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, and how it related to the events that were going on with his life. As well as recounting Arsenal's highs and lows, Hornby talks about other football clubs that played in London. "Fever Pitch" sold over a million copies in the United Kingdom. It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 1992 and was reprinted with a new cover and made available as part of the 2005–06 Arsenal F.C. membership pack as part of the "Final Salute" to
Cosmopolitan Club (London) informed political gossip is heard", in Trollope's novel "Phineas Redux". The meeting room was dominated by a large painting by Watts of a naked damsel in distress. The painting, "A Story from Boccaccio", depicted the woman fleeing towards a group of classically dressed figures. It was presented to the nation when the club closed. Cosmopolitan Club (London) The Cosmopolitan Club in London, England, was a club which existed from 1852 to 1902. It met in rooms in Berkeley Square which had previously been the studio of George Frederic Watts and then of Henry Wyndham Phillips. The membership included literary men,